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[squeedle]

In searching for a solution, I've seen this problem posted here several times before, and it never seems to be answered. But I'm hoping someone will be able to help...

I recently (finally!) took the time to digitize my dozen or so remaining VHS tapes. And I'd like to be able to view them in MC. (They work fine in VLC.) But when I try to load them, MC downloads something and asks me to restart MC. Then I get the following error:
"failed to connect video decoder to source/splitter"

I'm not sure what information I should provide that would be helpful. Here is the "codec information" for one of the files as displayed by VLC:

Stream 0
- Type: Video
- Codec: H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10) (H264)
- Resolution: 640x480
- Frame rate: 29.970000
- Decoded format: Planar 4:2:0 YUV
Stream 1
- Type: Audio
- Codec: MPEG Audio layer 1/2/3 (mpga)
- Channels: Stereo
- Sample rate: 48000 Hz
- Bitrate: 320 kb/s

I would really like to be able to view these in MC if someone can help.

[Matt]

Does toggling Red October Standard vs HQ in Options > Video help?

If not, could you provide a sample video to hendrik (at) jriver [dot] com and include a link to this thread?  Try Dropbox or Google Drive if the file is large.

Thanks.

[squeedle]

I emailed hendrik a sample video file as requested. No reply. Is there an update to this?

[squeedle]

^ bump.

[jmone]

Hi - while you wait for Hendrik do you have a link to a small sample (happy to test).
THanks
Nathan

[squeedle]

http://www.mhat.com/temp/snl.avi

[jmone]

Works fine for me in RO and ROHQ both with and without HW Accell.  Here is a sample of the Graph (RO with HW Accell ON):

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Filter Graph Info:

    Filter 'JRiver Audio Renderer'
        CLSID: {A4002F8E-510F-442C-8AD3-F9C7B23FB394}
        Host:
        Input Pin 'In'
            Connected to pin 'Output' of filter 'LAV Audio Decoder (auto-configured)'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_IEEE_FLOAT, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx

    Filter 'Enhanced Video Renderer'
        CLSID: {FA10746C-9B63-4B6C-BC49-FC300EA5F256}
        Host: c:\windows\syswow64\evr.dll
        Input Pin 'EVR Input0'
            Connected to pin 'Output' of filter 'LAV Video Decoder (auto-configured)'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Video  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_NV12, Format type FORMAT_VideoInfo2
        Input Pin 'EVR Input1'

    Filter 'LAV Video Decoder (auto-configured)'
        CLSID: {EE30215D-164F-4A92-A4EB-9D4C13390F9F}
        Host: C:\Users\Nathan\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 19\Plugins\lav\LAVVideo.ax
        Input Pin 'Input'
            Connected to pin 'Output' of filter 'JRiver Video Monitor'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Video  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_H264, Format type FORMAT_MPEG2_VIDEO
        Output Pin 'Output'
            Connected to pin 'EVR Input0' of filter 'Enhanced Video Renderer'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Video  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_NV12, Format type FORMAT_VideoInfo2

    Filter 'LAV Audio Decoder (auto-configured)'
        CLSID: {E8E73B6B-4CB3-44A4-BE99-4F7BCB96E491}
        Host: C:\Users\Nathan\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 19\Plugins\lav\LAVAudio.ax
        Input Pin 'Input'
            Connected to pin 'Output' of filter 'JRiver Audio Monitor'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio  Sub type Unknown GUID Name: {00000055-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx
        Output Pin 'Output'
            Connected to pin 'In' of filter 'JRiver Audio Renderer'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_IEEE_FLOAT, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx

    Filter 'JRiver Video Monitor'
        CLSID: {A4207487-E7D8-406B-9882-B66370DE2492}
        Host:
        Input Pin 'Input'
            Connected to pin 'Video' of filter 'LAV Splitter (auto-configured)'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Video  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_H264, Format type FORMAT_MPEG2_VIDEO
        Output Pin 'Output'
            Connected to pin 'Input' of filter 'LAV Video Decoder (auto-configured)'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Video  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_H264, Format type FORMAT_MPEG2_VIDEO

    Filter 'JRiver Audio Monitor'
        CLSID: {A4207487-E7D8-406B-9882-B66370DE2492}
        Host:
        Input Pin 'Input'
            Connected to pin 'Audio' of filter 'LAV Splitter (auto-configured)'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio  Sub type Unknown GUID Name: {00000055-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx
        Output Pin 'Output'
            Connected to pin 'Input' of filter 'LAV Audio Decoder (auto-configured)'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio  Sub type Unknown GUID Name: {00000055-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx

    Filter 'LAV Splitter (auto-configured)'
        CLSID: {B98D13E7-55DB-4385-A33D-09FD1BA26338}
        Host: C:\Users\Nathan\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 19\Plugins\lav\LAVSplitter.ax
        Output Pin 'Video'
            Connected to pin 'Input' of filter 'JRiver Video Monitor'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Video  Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_H264, Format type FORMAT_MPEG2_VIDEO
        Output Pin 'Audio'
            Connected to pin 'Input' of filter 'JRiver Audio Monitor'
            Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio  Sub type Unknown GUID Name: {00000055-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx

[jmone]

Are you just using RO / ROHQ or for some reason using the Advanced --> Custom or Windows Merit option...or anything else that is "special" about your setup?

EDIT - what is MC Downloading each time?

also do any other video files cause you issues?

[squeedle]

It doesn't work on either of my computers in MC, either in RO or ROHQ, with or without HW Accell. Everything seems to be set at the defaults, I really don't watch vids in MC much so I've never messed with it.

Yes, other AVI files that I have created cause the same problem, yet play fine in VLC, etc.

Also, MC isn't downloading anything any more. I guess that was just the first time I tried opening one of these files in it. But I don't know what it downloaded at that time.