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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 21 for Windows => Topic started by: TopDownDriver on August 11, 2015, 11:03:19 am

Title: A qucik Explanation Please
Post by: TopDownDriver on August 11, 2015, 11:03:19 am: Could someone please explain the difference in setting the following:

File Types:

I can set the audio Playback method to be the following:

Automatic
JRiver Audio Engine (using Input Plug-in)
JRiver Audio Engine (using DirectShow Filter)

I am just wondering what the differences are between these three. I assume that Automatic selects from the following two options.

Thanks
Title: Re: A qucik Explanation Please
Post by: Hendrik on August 11, 2015, 11:09:17 am: "Automatic" will just pick the best choice at all times, so unless you're having a problem you're trying to fix, no reason to switch away from it.

"Input Plug-in" are optimized input plugins for a variety of common audio formats. For audio formats, this is usually what "Automatic" will pick anyway.
"DirectShow Filter" is a more generic source with support for a wide variety of more uncommon audio formats, and is used for formats where a native Input Plug-in is not available.

So in short, stick to Automatic! :)
Title: Re: A qucik Explanation Please
Post by: BryanC on August 11, 2015, 12:32:31 pm: Oh god no. You are going to give people flashbacks.

Do. Not. Proceed. Nothing good can come of it.
Title: Re: A qucik Explanation Please
Post by: TopDownDriver on August 11, 2015, 04:27:24 pm: In Windows 10 does JRiver use its own FLAC codec or the one built into Windows?

Am I right in assuming that that if set to use DirectShow Filter it is using the Windows version?

Thanks
Title: Re: A qucik Explanation Please
Post by: Hendrik on August 11, 2015, 04:33:28 pm: 1) Its own.

2) No, even then it does not use the one built into Windows.

We use the FLAC reference codec, there is no better FLAC decoder.
Title: Re: A qucik Explanation Please
Post by: TopDownDriver on August 11, 2015, 04:45:29 pm: Under what criteria do you define "better"?

To my ears, and to many in the audiophile community who use JRiver, WMA Lossless sounds MUCH better. Hoping that the built in Windows FLAC codec also sounds good as well.
Title: Re: A qucik Explanation Please
Post by: DarkPenguin on August 11, 2015, 09:29:45 pm: Love audiophiles. They so crazy.
Title: Re: A qucik Explanation Please
Post by: glynor on August 11, 2015, 09:40:29 pm: Quote from: DarkPenguin on August 11, 2015, 09:29:45 pm
Love audiophiles. They so crazy.

;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: A qucik Explanation Please
Post by: Awesome Donkey on August 11, 2015, 10:04:10 pm: Quote from: TopDownDriver on August 11, 2015, 04:45:29 pm
Under what criteria do you define "better"?

Because it's the official, reference version?

Quote from: TopDownDriver on August 11, 2015, 04:45:29 pm
To my ears, and to many in the audiophile community who use JRiver, WMA Lossless sounds MUCH better.

*If* WMA Lossless is better to your ears, why not just keep using that?

Quote from: DarkPenguin on August 11, 2015, 09:29:45 pm
Love audiophiles. They so crazy.

You sir win the thread.

(http://i.imgur.com/0jSnaoH.jpg)

Sorry, I couldn't resist. :-[
Title: Re: A qucik Explanation Please
Post by: Hendrik on August 12, 2015, 01:40:15 am: Lossless formats are called lossless because they are just that, lossless. The end result is identical.

Anway, going to close this thread. We have no plans whatsoever to use the Microsoft decoder.