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<blockquote data-quote="Kotik" data-source="post: 719730" data-attributes="member: 89825">Re: VC-1 issues (VC1)You want to reproduce Domb's issue?If yes then you will have to use the Gabest VC-1 Loader.You can download it from the link that Domb posted.What this Loader does is simple, it connects itself between the source filter and the video decoder. In our case between the Gabest MpegSplitter and the PDVD Codec, so whenever you have {31435657-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} as an output then the Loader will connect and then transform the output to {D979F77B-DBEA-4BF6-9E6D-1D7E57FBAD53} (i am not sure that this is the GUID it will output).In any case those Loaders do not work smooth, some will output half the frame-rate some will stutter like hell and other will not connect to the video decoder at all. At least for me they never did work correctly. In any case my theory is, and i would like to get a respond from a dev regarding this one, that MP actually doesn't force any codec when the media type is {31435657-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, MP simply relies on DS merits at that point. This could explain why the VC-1 trick works under XP and why it doesn't under 7. So if we could introduce a new field into MP configuration, from which field we could force/select a codec for VC-1 (the same way we do it for H.264) then maybe we can get VC-1i under 7 the same way that MPC-HC does.P.S. Now that i think of it, maybe this is what miroslav22 already did.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kotik, post: 719730, member: 89825"] [b]Re: VC-1 issues (VC1)[/b] You want to reproduce Domb's issue? If yes then you will have to use the Gabest VC-1 Loader. You can download it from the link that Domb posted. What this Loader does is simple, it connects itself between the source filter and the video decoder. In our case between the Gabest MpegSplitter and the PDVD Codec, so whenever you have {31435657-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71} as an output then the Loader will connect and then transform the output to {D979F77B-DBEA-4BF6-9E6D-1D7E57FBAD53} (i am not sure that this is the GUID it will output). In any case those Loaders do not work smooth, some will output half the frame-rate some will stutter like hell and other will not connect to the video decoder at all. At least for me they never did work correctly. In any case my theory is, and i would like to get a respond from a dev regarding this one, that MP actually doesn't force any codec when the media type is {31435657-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, MP simply relies on DS merits at that point. This could explain why the VC-1 trick works under XP and why it doesn't under 7. So if we could introduce a new field into MP configuration, from which field we could force/select a codec for VC-1 (the same way we do it for H.264) then maybe we can get VC-1i under 7 the same way that MPC-HC does. P.S. Now that i think of it, maybe this is what miroslav22 already did. [/QUOTE]

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