Codecs SAF v6 (based on LAVF) (200 Viewers)

[hoborg]

@hoborg

whenever i choose a specific directsound device, i get these graphs. if i choose default direct sound device, everything is fine.
in case of specific device, MP does not show a TV video nor TV sound ( of course)

So why you dont use default audio renderer? This is common issue of many users - the will use wron audio renderer.

 

[Pitscho]

good question!

but i solved the problem accidently ^^. changed many bios settings, also disabled the onboard audio

-----> sound works again with ati gfx

 

[vpupkin]

A word of caution if you're still using SAF 6.0.5 (or maybe even earlier builds): it seems that included ffdshow (when high quality YV12->RGB conversion is enabled) is rapidly leaking resources, especially open handles and eventually physical memory. This leads to heavy judder (at least on my machine) after ~1hr of playback, and will probably have even more severe consequences if one would keep going. See some more info in my report: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-development-no-feature-request-here-48/mp1-evr-presenter-dshowhelper-community-development-81148/index146.html

ffdshow in SAF 6.0.6 seems to have a fix (confirmed by looking at ffdshow changelog), so I strongly recommend upgrading.

 

[larsbln]

Very good point. How did you find out? Could cause a lot of trouble which is hard to trace.

[...] so I strongly recommend upgrading.

That's true, of course.

 

[vpupkin]

Very good point. How did you find out? Could cause a lot of trouble which is hard to trace.

Check out my posts in dshowhelper thread (see link above); it definitely did take a while to track. I am sensitive to judder , especially since it was a long time that my system was judder-free with butter smooth playback (which did take quite a while too to set up back then). Unfortunately, I had to update quite a few components recently: I wanted to update only StreamedMP skin, which brought in new OnlineVideos, which now relies on LAVsplitter, which caused me to reinstall ffdshow and eventually SAF. And I hate changes like this as usually something gets broken along the way. And it did - I've spend some time on crashing ffdshow in OnlineVideos (turned out new OV splitter filter didn't play well with obscure ffdshow setting). After I figured this one out, I was almost happy, but started to notice judder (and see dropped frames in debug) after extended periods of playback. Though that updating dshowhelper will help, but it didn't improve things by much.

But such weird symptoms were only consistent with the resource leakage (well, at least that I could think of), and this was confirmed by tracking taskman numbers. Starting from there it was much easier: remove components one by one (MP->MP-debug->graph->smaller graph->individual ffdshow settings), and track down the culprit, and see if the problem was fixed in the subsequent releases (or roll back to the previous ones before it was introduced).

 

[biship]

Somehow audio decoding broke on me. its been working fine for all SAF 5.xx & SAF 6.xx, until just yesterday.
I've uninstalled and re-installed 6.04, 6.05 and 6.06 - but none of them work anymore.
mp3 audio works. AC3 does not.
Graphstudio does not connect the AUDIO PIN of the LAV splitter to anything.
I do not have any other codec packs installed.
DXDIAG shows no errors (I even re-installed DIRECTX). I only have one audio device - ATI HDMI out, and it is set to default, 7.1, and tests fine on every speaker.
I picked pass-though & my reciever support HD audio on SAF install (and this has always worked).
Any ideas where to look?

 

[Twinturbo]

I have a problem playing .avi
None of my avi-files works with ffdshow
Mkv's work like a dream and TV with ffdshow is also working.
When I play an avi-file MP either hangs and crashes or nothing happens (it keeps trying to play the file forever).

My new htpc has an AMD A4 3400 with Radeon HD6410D and Asrock A75M-itx as motherboard.
SAF 6.06 and MP 1.2.2

On my stationary PC all those avi-files plays without any problem

 

[hoborg]

I have a problem playing .avi
None of my avi-files works with ffdshow
Mkv's work like a dream and TV with ffdshow is also working.
When I play an avi-file MP either hangs and crashes or nothing happens (it keeps trying to play the file forever).

My new htpc has an AMD A4 3400 with Radeon HD6410D and Asrock A75M-itx as motherboard.
SAF 6.06 and MP 1.2.2

On my stationary PC all those avi-files plays without any problem

Hi.
Did you tryed to play your AVI in Graphstudio?

 

[Twinturbo]

I have a problem playing .avi
None of my avi-files works with ffdshow
Mkv's work like a dream and TV with ffdshow is also working.
When I play an avi-file MP either hangs and crashes or nothing happens (it keeps trying to play the file forever).

My new htpc has an AMD A4 3400 with Radeon HD6410D and Asrock A75M-itx as motherboard.
SAF 6.06 and MP 1.2.2

On my stationary PC all those avi-files plays without any problem

Hi.
Did you tryed to play your AVI in Graphstudio?

No, I will give it a try when my children and wife has gone to bed ;-)

Edit: It was note a codec issue.

The files that refused to play all had insufficient rights (none!?).
I have all of my video and DVD files on a NAS and somehow some of them only had got NAS administrators rights.
Strangely enough I was able to play them on my stationary PC. I do not know how :?

 

[cerberus]

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/saf-v6-based-on-lavf.95635/page-197#post-840345

Is there any solution? Where can i download a older build (6.0.5)?
THX