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NEW FEATURE: Red October (Automatic DirectShow Configuration)
JimH:
rick.ca,
Your post is on the beta board.
glynor:
--- Quote from: JustinChase on May 25, 2011, 07:17:58 pm ---I am curious why ffdshow audio was/is chosen over LAV audio, mainly just because it seems LAV audio is sort of built to work directly with LAV splitter, which *is* being chosen. No big deal, just curiosity, as long as it works, no complaints :)
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I believe they needed some additional features added to LAV audio before it could be easily used in place of ffdshow audio. However, I also believe that nevcairiel is currently working on filling their exact wish list, there's just a well-deserved fishing trip in the way right now. ;)
This was JohnT's post on this exact subject just last Thursday (surprising no one, jmone started a discussion about this very subject), which I think makes their plans pretty clear:
--- Quote from: JohnT ---Some of the next stages are:
1. make it bulletproof for all video files you can throw at it
2. make it customizable for tweakers who want to use certain "known good" filters in the video graph
3. make the final decision on the base filters to use in the filter pack (this is where we choose ffdshow vs. LAV audio for example)
So don't worry, we haven't turned down any particular audio decoder road yet.
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We are further along (much) than when that post was made, especially on #1, but I don't think any door has yet closed.
PS. I hope this is okay, since it is public now, I thought this was valuable information. If not, delete this post.
glynor:
--- Quote from: JustinChase on May 25, 2011, 07:17:58 pm ---However, WTV files put MC in a perpetual state of "*starting", which had to be killed with Task Manager. When I restarted, and tried again, it just killed MC immediately.
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This is occasionally how it has acted with a few of the file types I'd encountered that it couldn't properly handle in the initial phases. This is still early. Any files that you find that don't work, they'll want reports on (and sometimes copies of the file in question if they're rare or hard to find/make). You probably WILL find some that don't work, but most of the "big ones" should just fine.
I doubt that they want it to hang like that for the long term, but this is still "cooking". I do think there might be something else going on here though, because some of us are still seeing this occasionally with files that DO otherwise work. We'll just have to report on it.
--- Quote from: JustinChase on May 25, 2011, 07:17:58 pm ---I noticed in the release notes that MC is using the newest version of LAV filters 0.27, but I only have 0.26 installed on that machine so far (just haven't updated it yet).
So, I wonder if there is some conflict going on with MC using 0.27 (somehow), but with 0.26 actually being installed
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I don't believe there should be. The Red October system uses its own filters, that it downloads, not the system ones. It doesn't install/register the filters that it uses on the system at all, so they should be totally independent of what you have on the system in most (all?) cases.
JustinChase:
Excellent info. Thanks.
I expected there may still be a few niggling issues, so I'm not complaining, mainly just providing feedback to try to help diagnose issues from a wider base than the beta group (I miss being in the beta group :()
I'll upgrade the LAV filters to 0.27 tomorrow, and test some WTV files again, both with RedO and without, and report back.
if anyone wants to see some logs, just let me know. the files themselves aren't anything special. OTA recordings from WMC7, unmodified by anything else.
--- Quote ---Captain Matt: You're afraid of our filters. Well, you should be. Personally, I'd give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?
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;D
flac.rules:
While one must be careful not to make the feature too complicated (it kind of defeats the point), would it be an idea too have two settings? High performance, and High Quality (with the latter running upscaling and other filters?)
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