Best Audio Codec (comaptible with HD programming)

[qaxooti]

Hey,

I have 2 STBs hooked up to an HVR-2250 Dual Tuner Card.

I am connecting both STBs by S-Video (and L/R audio). Everything works pretty well until I navigate to an HD channel on my Comcast box. It will work for a little while, then the audio will start stuttering.

I haven't really had much problems with video after installing the NVidia Pure Video Decoder, but I haven't been able to get the audio to work exactly right yet.

I have tried a ton of different audio encoders (NVIdia, DScaler5, MPA, Intervideo,Mpeg, System Default, FFDshow, etc.), and haven't been able to find one that works perfect on all types of programming.

Any suggestions? Maybe an audio decoder that I haven't tried? Anyone know the best audio decoder to pair up with the NVidia Pure Video Decoder? I'm pretty intent on keeping the video decoder the same.

[whurlston]

Did you use the ffdshow release or the ffdshow tryouts? I use the tryouts for pretty much everything now.

[qaxooti]

I will try the "ffdshow tryouts" today when I get home.

What do you use them for? Audio and Video decoder? AC3 decoder?

How do they compare to other decoders you've used?

[elbryyan]

I was having a similar issue when using the Nvidia Pure Video decoder.
I've noticed that when using the Nvidia Pure Video decoder as the audio decoder then you have to set the audio renderer to 'system default'. This seemed to help the audio sync issue for me.

[whurlston]

I will try the "ffdshow tryouts" today when I get home.

What do you use them for? Audio and Video decoder? AC3 decoder?

How do they compare to other decoders you've used?

I pretty much use them for all my audio decoding (Dolby/DTS).