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Title: MKV Questions: 1. Normalizing 2. Audio playback starts late 3.....
Post by: Cold_Farmer on March 08, 2009, 05:30:33 am

Hi all!

I have converted my musicvideos into mkv-format.
Most of them are DTS or AC3, so i think mkv is the
best choice (everything possible with freeware-tools).
I am using the haali media splitter and ffdshow is sending
the audio over hdmi to my hifi-receiver (in ffdshow i selected
s/pdif as decoder for ac3 and dts)

Now my questions:

1. is it possible to normalize the playback like i can do
   with mp3?

2. when I start a mkv-video in MC13, it will load a few
   seconds, then the video starts and 3-4 seconds later
   the audio-playback starts. How can I make video and
   audio start together?

3. In playlists I use mp3s and musicvideos. Is it possible to
   use the crossfader with mkv`s, too?

4. When i stop a mkv-video, mc13 remembers the position and
   starts playing at that positon, when I restart the video later.
   But I always want to start mkvs from the beginning, ist there
   an option to handel that?

Sorry about my bad english, but I did my best.....

Thanks to all, who will answere me

CF

Title: Re: MKV Questions: 1. Normalizing 2. Audio playback starts late 3.....
Post by: gappie on March 08, 2009, 06:15:09 pm

hi cf.. cant help with all the questions, but about normalizing. you can set that in ffdshow audio. under volume.

for the bookmarks. there is a tag called: use bookmark. you can set this to 'no'. it will start from the start everytime you start the video where you it for. so must be done per video.. works nice..

 ;)
gab

Title: Re: MKV Questions: 1. Normalizing 2. Audio playback starts late 3.....
Post by: Cold_Farmer on March 15, 2009, 11:08:20 am

Thank you for your help!

I had much trouble to find the "use bookmarks" tag. Found it today and it is working fine!
Also, I set normalizing in ffdshow. It works with ac3-sound. But is it possible, that its not
working with dts?

I would like to solve the problem I discribed in my question 2! Any Ideas?

thx

cf

Title: Re: MKV Questions: 1. Normalizing 2. Audio playback starts late 3.....
Post by: leezer3 on March 15, 2009, 01:50:08 pm

Quote from: Cold_Farmer on March 15, 2009, 11:08:20 am

Thank you for your help!

I had much trouble to find the "use bookmarks" tag. Found it today and it is working fine!
Also, I set normalizing in ffdshow. It works with ac3-sound. But is it possible, that its not
working with dts?

I would like to solve the problem I discribed in my question 2! Any Ideas?

thx

cf

I'd assume FFDShow isn't decoding DTS, and that you have a separate filter for that one :)

With regards to question two, a few things could be causing this-
1. Is it all MKVs, or just some of them? If it's all MKVs, then I'd check the Haali splitter settings, and also try an update if appropriate.
2. Where did these MKVs come from? If an AVI is created with a VBR MP3 soundtrack, and then edited using some software, this can cause it. Merging these AVIs into a MKV will keep the display.
3. What are your system specs? An underspec system could cause this, although I'd expect to see stuttering elsewhere in the videos if this is the case.
4. If there is junk data where audio should be when muxing an MKV, MKVToolnix inserts silence.

Cheers

-Leezer-