m2ts sound

[pvrproblems]

Ok. I'm just recently able to play m2ts files. I'm ripping with DVD-Fab. I can play the file just perfectly (video and sound) in CyberLink 8. In MS Media Player, the video is fine, but the audio starts to crackle a bit after a few minutes. If I FF, Rev, Pause, it will fix it for a few moments, then it starts up again.

Media Player Classic won't play it, but does give me this info on the file
Video: WVC1 1920x1080 23.98fps [Video]
Audio: Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 640Kbps [Audio]
Subtitle [Subtitle]

Which setting in GB-PVR should I be trying? Audio Decoder, AC3 Decoder, Audio Renderer, AAC Decoder, HE-AAC Decoder, or DD+/E-AC3 Decoder?

I've been trying combinations of AC3 Decoder and AAC Decoder, and not having much luck.

Thanks in advance

Richard

[sub]

Which setting in GB-PVR should I be trying? Audio Decoder, AC3 Decoder, Audio Renderer, AAC Decoder, HE-AAC Decoder, or DD+/E-AC3 Decoder?

I've been trying combinations of AC3 Decoder and AAC Decoder, and not having much luck.

None of these settings make any difference when you're playing .m2ts files. These settings are only used when you're playing file types that GB-PVR records, ie .ts .mpg and .dvr-ms.

When it comes to other file types, you get whatever decoders Windows chooses.

[pvrproblems]

ah, ok. But if windows chooses it, why would Cyberlink work fine, but not Media player?

How can I make windows choose what I want it to?

Many thanks

Richard

[sub]

The cyberlink player obviously doesnt leave it up to Window to choose the decoder, and instead opts to use its own decoders etc. ie, "m2ts" is a file type that player was designed to play, so it gives special attention to that file type, wheras GB-PVR doesnt know anything about m2ts files and instead lets Windows choose which decoders to use.

How can I make windows choose what I want it to?

Windows uses the decoder merit settings to choose decoders, but I'm no expert in manually editing these settings, so I dont have much advise to offer you on this type of tweaking.

[pvrproblems]

Ok. I'm a programmer, just not familair with this type stuff. I'll hunt it down. Tks Sub.

[BigMoose]

Download Graphstudio, render the file in that and see what decoders windows is choosing. You can change the merits until it picks the ones you want - go to Graph, insert filter - than you can see a list of them all and change the merits as you see fit. Some will install with stupidly high merits so you might want to lower any of these that it keeps using. Once Graphstudio is picking the ones you want (you can play the file from the app to see if it's giving the desired results) then in theory GBPVR will use the same decoders for the same file types (other than the types that Sub mentioned below that have their own settings in gbpvr config).

For my Bluray (disk or ripped m2ts) sound I use FFDshow (latest tryouts).

[hoborg]

Can you provide small sample where we can reproduce the audio problem?
If you have installed SAF, there is in START - SAF - TOOLs DSmux (GraphStudio too BTW). With DSmux you can simply mux m2ts to MKV. This will just change container and didnt touch audio/video. Can be possible fix, becouse MKV will be splitted by haali.