HD-PVR and DirectShow Filters

[jerryt]

Originally Posted by Taddeusz

Yea, the way I got mine to work properly was not to adjust the lines in the properties file but to adjust filter merits to prefer the codecs I wanted it to use. I could never get SageTV to prefer the ones I specified in the properties file.

You can download GraphEdit to help verify which ones it is going to use by default. Keep in mind that SageTV is always going to use the SageTV MPEG Splitter unless you set a custom splitter in the registry. I've currently got mine working with the Cyberlink PowerDVD 8 H.264 decoder and the "Cyberlink Audio Decode" Apparently the one with the "r" doesn't work right but the one without will. Not sure why.

Interesting, my property file edits work correctly?

I can use FFDshow audio to view all the filters in use. It places an icon in the system tray and when you open the icon, at the top it shows all the files in use.

[Taddeusz]

Originally Posted by jerryt

Interesting, my property file edits work correctly?

I can use FFDshow audio to view all the filters in use. It places an icon in the system tray and when you open the icon, at the top it shows all the files in use.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I'm running Vista x64? I could just never get it to pick the right codec. No matter what I put on that line it would chose the filter with the highest merit. So I quickly gave up that course and decided to just adjust merits to make the preferred system defaults to be what I wanted them to be.

[bastian74]

How do you determine which codecs sage is actually using?
I can not get "connect to remote graph" to work in graphedit.

[jerryt]

Originally Posted by bastian74

How do you determine which codecs sage is actually using?
I can not get "connect to remote graph" to work in graphedit.

Originally Posted by jerryt

Determining the filters in use, is done by enabling "Debug Logging" and then reading the txt file which it creates.

Filters used by Graphedit "Render file" only shows which filters have the highest merit value. Sage does not work the same, so use the "Debugging" trick.

Merit values, I have only been able to get stutter free playback by not adjusting merit values. Sage allows for you to be able to select any codec you want, so why force a certain codec.

This post

[jerryt]

Originally Posted by bastian74

How do you determine which codecs sage is actually using?
I can not get "connect to remote graph" to work in graphedit.

Originally Posted by jerryt

I can use FFDshow audio to view all the filters in use. It places an icon in the system tray and when you open the icon, at the top it shows all the files in use.

And this post.

[bastian74]

I don't get the ffdshow audio icon bit... it shows the video codecs that are being used? Seems like an odd feature.

And the only logging option I see in sage properties is advanced_aspect_ratio_debug_logging=false

[funperro]

Originally Posted by bastian74

I don't get the ffdshow audio icon bit... it shows the video codecs that are being used? Seems like an odd feature.

And the only logging option I see in sage properties is advanced_aspect_ratio_debug_logging=false

Edit sage.properties and add this line:

debug_logging=TRUE