"Video Error", Live TV, MKV help

[danbruski]

(01-29-2012 09:11 PM)danbruski Wrote:  

(01-29-2012 09:03 PM)Shark007 Wrote:  there are not a lot things that can break 64bit LiveTV.

What tools have you played with? (to modify codec or other tv behavior?)
have you installed certain registry 'tweaks' to assist with modifying Media Center behavior? Or audio behavior?
Did you fillow a guide somewhere that you can point me to revue?

Hmmm, just yours. No registry tweaks or audio changes. I initially followed a guide :
http://thedigitallifestyle.com/w/index.p...ack-magic/

Between then and now, I uninstalled the 64x and 32 versions of Shark007, shut down, re downloaded and re installed.

Any more thoughts? I'm going to look at the windows audio settings and post that...

--Update: Control Panel shows two options, "Speakers. 2-Via High Definition Audio" and "TX-SR674. In tel Display Audio. Default Device.

I see audio representation in the moving bars and hear sound when playing Youtube video. It's Configured as 5.1 surround. I think i recall reading that the setting's supposed to be "speakers" and set to 2 channel. I didn't make any changes yet, keeping the variables low.

[Shark007]

selct the Intel as default and set its speaker configuration to stereo only if you use hdmi to the AVR

[danbruski]

(01-29-2012 09:24 PM)Shark007 Wrote:  selct the Intel as default and set its speaker configuration to stereo only if you use hdmi to the AVR

That seemed to make a lot of difference. Live TV works now. Strange how WMC said I had a Video Error, when maybe it was due to audio setup?

I next tried some movie files and volume seemed low and not right - i think i didn't have all the channels. So then I looked to WMC speaker setup and now that seems to work properly (one of my initial problems listed in the initial post - now seems resolved with this audio change).

MKV files seem at a lower volume than MP4s and standard system volume.

Now, should I reenable the LAV? or do some other tweaks to enhance/improve?

[Shark007]

do you know if your PC/AVR can decode 'HD' audio? (truehd, dts-hd)

[danbruski]

(01-29-2012 10:01 PM)Shark007 Wrote:  do you know if your PC/AVR can decode 'HD' audio? (truehd, dts-hd)

It's fairly new to me... i looked it up and it says:
Dolby Digital EX & Pro Logic IIx
DTS-ES 96/24 & Neo - 6

So, it looks like it does not decode trueHD, dts-HD.

[Shark007]

on the Audio TAB, choose to use 'Enable Audio normalization'
(leave LAV audio disabled)

[danbruski]

(01-29-2012 10:41 PM)Shark007 Wrote:  on the Audio TAB, choose to use 'Enable Audio normalization'
(leave LAV audio disabled)

I'll try the normalization for the sound level being lower on the MKVs.
Now that it seems my issue may have been related to some control panel vs WMC conflict, should I revert back to the orignal seetings (reset all) or even use the shark007 suggested settings? Intel acceleration? Pass through for items my AVR can decode?

It's not much, but hopefully you see the $10 i dropped in your paypal yesterday - thanks so much.

[Shark007]

(01-30-2012 10:55 AM)danbruski Wrote:  I'll try the normalization for the sound level being lower on the MKVs.
Now that it seems my issue may have been related to some control panel vs WMC conflict, should I revert back to the orignal seetings (reset all) or even use the shark007 suggested settings? Intel acceleration? Pass through for items my AVR can decode?

It's not much, but hopefully you see the $10 i dropped in your paypal yesterday - thanks so much.

[Reset All] will re-instate LAV as the default audio decoder.
The normalization setting is a feature of FFDshow.
Most Audio TAB settings are for FFDshow - to access LAV settings you need to click the [setup LAV audio] button.

For ffdshow passthrough, if selected on the Audio TAB, you would then need to go to the Config TAB and click the [FFDshow Audio config] button,
scroll the leftside and highlight Output, and de-select the HD formats.

I appreciate the donation especially since it is $10 more than the average user cares to share. Thank you.

[danbruski]

(01-30-2012 12:05 PM)Shark007 Wrote:  

(01-30-2012 10:55 AM)danbruski Wrote:  I'll try the normalization for the sound level being lower on the MKVs.
Now that it seems my issue may have been related to some control panel vs WMC conflict, should I revert back to the orignal seetings (reset all) or even use the shark007 suggested settings? Intel acceleration? Pass through for items my AVR can decode?

It's not much, but hopefully you see the $10 i dropped in your paypal yesterday - thanks so much.

[Reset All] will re-instate LAV as the default audio decoder.
The normalization setting is a feature of FFDshow.
Most Audio TAB settings are for FFDshow - to access LAV settings you need to click the [setup LAV audio] button.

For ffdshow passthrough, if selected on the Audio TAB, you would then need to go to the Config TAB and click the [FFDshow Audio config] button,
scroll the leftside and highlight Output, and de-select the HD formats.

I appreciate the donation especially since it is $10 more than the average user cares to share. Thank you.

So, what's "better" LAV or FFD ,or is that not a valid question...?

[Shark007]

(01-30-2012 03:42 PM)danbruski Wrote:  what's "better" LAV or FFD ,or is that not a valid question...?

neither is better - I prefer to use whar ever works. Thankfully, we have options.