Directshow Decoder Priority

[Northpole]

I have been using GBPVR or (PVRX2) for about a year. Thanks Sub all your efforts. I had a question on the audio directshow decoder priority. I have both the cyberlink PDVD7 and the sonic 4.2 audio decoder filters installed on my system and they both decode everything that I have needed. I recently added ffdshow and have been using it only to normalize (boost) sound levels during playback (all decoder codec disabled). I have been having problems getting audio from the cyberlink filter+ffdshow filter combination only on Live TV Playback. For all other recorded media playback, the combination works fine.

With the Sonic+ffdshow combination, everything plays back fine including Live TV. Since the Sonic filter works with Live TV, I have set this as my preferred Audio Decoder. The filter merits are set to the same value for both the cyberlink and the Sonic filter and I need to keep it that way for another application I am using. My problem is that even though I have the Sonic filter set as preferred, the graph constructed by PVRX2 uses the cyberlink filter. The only way I can get PVRX2 to use the sonic filter is to set it's merit higher than the Cyberlink one. This wouldn't be a problem except it causes some problems with another application.

I guess I was wondering what does the Preferred Audio Decoder setting do. I doesn't seem to have any effect on my PC.

Running WinXp MCE 2005, P4 3.2 GHz dual thread, single core, 4 GB ram, nVidia 8600 GT, Hauppauge PVR 150.

Thanks again for the great program!

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I guess I was wondering what does the Preferred Audio Decoder setting do

It basically puts the filter in the graph (unattached). When it later renders the graph, directshow will usually prefer decoders that are already in the graph over any others that are on the machine.

Directshow works in strange and mysterious ways. Hopefully you'll find a way to get it working the way you want.

[Northpole]

Thanks for the response.

I guess that is why when I open up lastgraph.grf their are unattached filters just sitting in there.

I had one more questions, Is there anyway to have PVRX2 starup in Above Normal Priority. I see where I can change the priority for the recording service and for clients but not for the host?