Help with Issues: FLAC broken, FFDshow ignored, subtitle size?

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So I'm retrying SageTV again because SageTV is the ultimate king of client/server operations and that is really important to me.

Before I ended up moving on last time, I had 3 small issues that I was working on. I figured with my new experience with media playback on the PC I could fix these myself now. No such luck, so I was wondering if anyone can help me sort them out?

1) This one should be easy, how do I change the foont size for subtitles?

2) I can't get FLAC files to play in SageTV. I did search and I tried some of the the posted possible fixes but they didn't work. Truth is that there is very little about it here. Seems people are not using SageTV for music, don't use flac, or aren't havign this issue. This thread is really the best resource I found and none of the proposed fixes worked for the poster or anyone else who posted in that thread either. This leads to my next issue which I think is tried to this,

3) FFDshow is not being called by SageTV. Which is possibly the reason for the FLAC problem. I have DShowplayer set to true, as I want to use dshow filters, not MPlayer.

Ok, a couple things here.

A) Zoomplayer plays FLAC fine. Its using FFDshow to decode the flac audio.

B) When I play an avi in zoomplayer on the computer, the little ffdshow icon shows up in my tasktray. In SageTV, playing the same avi does not show the little ffdshow icon and its doesn't load FFDshow at all. I have no clue what SageTV is using to decode the avi.

C) If I set dshow player to false, it does play flac files, but it doesn't play a bunch of other files MP4s, H264 avi (though it does play mkv h264, which is strange), and my bluray rips are hit and miss. However, even if it did, I would prefer to use dshow codecs over Mplayer.

D) The PC is a dual core intel E6300 with a Nvidia 8600 video card and 4 GBs of ram. Its running SageTV client on windows 7 32bit. It is a very clean install, as this was running Mythbuntu previously so Win7 was clean installed (I got real good at clean installs). The only codecs I installed was Coreavc and ffdshow. Coreavc installed Haali Media splitter and SageTV installed AC3filter. I let Zoomplayer install flashvideo filter.

Does anyone have any ideas? If I can get SageTV to use FFDshow, I think that will fix my FLAC problem.

Thanks!

[lash]

Ok, i discovered debug logging . Seems the problem is with CPlayerData.cpp?

Mon 3/22 14:06:46.114 [AsyncWatch@84639c] Now using external format detector...
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.596 [AsyncWatch@84639c] File Format Parsed \\Research1\Audio Collection\10,000 Maniacs\MTV Unplugged\01 - 10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days.flac=FLAC 0:04:53 955 kbps [#0 Audio[FLAC 44100 Hz 2 channels  idx=0]{Album=MTV Unplugged, Year=1993/01/01, ThumbnailOffset=3203, TEMPO=Moderate, LYRICS=These are the days, Comment=The digilaw collection, RATING=5, Genre=Pop-Folk, TOOL VERSION=12.0.497, Artist=10,000 Maniacs, PREFERENCE=5, Title=These Are Days, TOOL NAME=Media Center, MOOD=Mellow, ThumbnailSize=29641, SITUATION=Dinner Party, Track=1}]
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.599 [AsyncWatch@84639c] VideoFrame.watch(A[100000006,100000002,"MTV Unplugged",0@0617.04:17,4])
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.600 [AsyncWatch@84639c] watchThisFile=MediaFile[id=0 A[100000006,100000002,"MTV Unplugged",0@0617.04:17,4] host=HTPC2 encodedBy= format=FLAC 0:04:53 955 kbps [#0 Audio[FLAC 44100 Hz 2 channels  idx=0]] \\Research1\Audio Collection\10,000 Maniacs\MTV Unplugged\01 - 10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days.flac, Seg0[Tue 6/17 4:17:23.402-Tue 6/17 4:22:16.932]]
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.602 [AsyncWatch@84639c] Watch airing is a file & over, do that instead dvd=false
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.603 [AsyncWatch@84639c] VF.submitJob(VFJob[WatchMF r=0.0 t=0 file=MediaFile[id=0 A[100000006,100000002,"MTV Unplugged",0@0617.04:17,4] host=REPUBLIC encodedBy= format=FLAC 0:04:53 955 kbps [#0 Audio[FLAC 44100 Hz 2 channels  idx=0]] \\Research1\Audio Collection\10,000 Maniacs\MTV Unplugged\01 - 10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days.flac, Seg0[Tue 6/17 4:17:23.402-Tue 6/17 4:22:16.932]] ifn=null])
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.607 [VideoFrame-SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI@dbb83a] VF processing job VFJob[WatchMF r=0.0 t=0 file=MediaFile[id=0 A[100000006,100000002,"MTV Unplugged",0@0617.04:17,4] host=HTPC2 encodedBy= format=FLAC 0:04:53 955 kbps [#0 Audio[FLAC 44100 Hz 2 channels  idx=0]] \\Research1\Audio Collection\10,000 Maniacs\MTV Unplugged\01 - 10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days.flac, Seg0[Tue 6/17 4:17:23.402-Tue 6/17 4:22:16.932]] ifn=null] nPlayin=false
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.610 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] VF processing on UI Thread VFJob[WatchMF r=0.0 t=0 file=MediaFile[id=0 A[100000006,100000002,"MTV Unplugged",0@0617.04:17,4] host=HTPC2 encodedBy= format=FLAC 0:04:53 955 kbps [#0 Audio[FLAC 44100 Hz 2 channels  idx=0]] \\Research1\Audio Collection\10,000 Maniacs\MTV Unplugged\01 - 10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days.flac, Seg0[Tue 6/17 4:17:23.402-Tue 6/17 4:22:16.932]] ifn=null]
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.621 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] VideoFrame creating new media player for file:MediaFile[id=0 A[100000006,100000002,"MTV Unplugged",0@0617.04:17,4] host=HTPC2 encodedBy= format=FLAC 0:04:53 955 kbps [#0 Audio[FLAC 44100 Hz 2 channels  idx=0]] \\Research1\Audio Collection\10,000 Maniacs\MTV Unplugged\01 - 10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days.flac, Seg0[Tue 6/17 4:17:23.402-Tue 6/17 4:22:16.932]]
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.624 [VideoFrame-SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI@dbb83a] VF processing job VFJob[LoadMF r=0.0 t=0 file=MediaFile[id=0 A[100000006,100000002,"MTV Unplugged",0@0617.04:17,4] host=HTPC2 encodedBy= format=FLAC 0:04:53 955 kbps [#0 Audio[FLAC 44100 Hz 2 channels  idx=0]] \\Research1\Audio Collection\10,000 Maniacs\MTV Unplugged\01 - 10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days.flac, Seg0[Tue 6/17 4:17:23.402-Tue 6/17 4:22:16.932]] ifn=null] nPlayin=false
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.627 [ReProcessHook@74714c] CEPoolSize=5
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.635 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] VF processing on UI Thread VFJob[LoadMF r=0.0 t=0 file=MediaFile[id=0 A[100000006,100000002,"MTV Unplugged",0@0617.04:17,4] host=HTPC2 encodedBy= format=FLAC 0:04:53 955 kbps [#0 Audio[FLAC 44100 Hz 2 channels  idx=0]] \\Research1\Audio Collection\10,000 Maniacs\MTV Unplugged\01 - 10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days.flac, Seg0[Tue 6/17 4:17:23.402-Tue 6/17 4:22:16.932]] ifn=null]
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.638 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] VF file=MediaFile[id=0 A[100000006,100000002,"MTV Unplugged",0@0617.04:17,4] host=HTPC2 encodedBy= format=FLAC 0:04:53 955 kbps [#0 Audio[FLAC 44100 Hz 2 channels  idx=0]] \\Research1\Audio Collection\10,000 Maniacs\MTV Unplugged\01 - 10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days.flac, Seg0[Tue 6/17 4:17:23.402-Tue 6/17 4:22:16.932]] targetTime = Tue 6/17 4:17:23.402
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.639 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] VideoFrame.timeSelected(Tue 6/17 4:17:23.402, true) currFile=MediaFile[id=0 A[100000006,100000002,"MTV Unplugged",0@0617.04:17,4] host=HTPC2 encodedBy= format=FLAC 0:04:53 955 kbps [#0 Audio[FLAC 44100 Hz 2 channels  idx=0]] \\Research1\Audio Collection\10,000 Maniacs\MTV Unplugged\01 - 10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days.flac, Seg0[Tue 6/17 4:17:23.402-Tue 6/17 4:22:16.932]]
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.666 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] DShowPlayer setAudioRendererFilter0(DirectSound: S/PDIF Pass-through Device (C-Media Oxygen HD Audio Device)) called
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.670 [AsyncWatch@84639c] Generating album cache...
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.674 [AsyncWatch@84639c] Done generating album cache.
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.785 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] DShowPlayer setTimeshift=0 buffer=0
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.786 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] Using the default source filter
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.799 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] NATIVE RenderSource called
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.890 [ActiveRender-SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI@1a7d59b] Loading RawImage of size 59x73 for C:\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Themes\CenterSage\logo_pause.png
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.891 [ActiveRender-SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI@1a7d59b] Loading 0x0 image from file C:\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV3\SageMCE\Themes\CenterSage\logo_pause.png
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.892 [ActiveRender-SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI@1a7d59b] Creating DirectX9 Texture from nio buffer w=59 h=73
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.893 [ActiveRender-SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI@1a7d59b] Loading new font to cache font=MetaFont[Arial, size=29, style=0, height=33.347168, ascent=26.727295, descent=5.6711426, leading=0.94873047]
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.902 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] WIN32 FAILURE HR=0x80040240 FILE=.\CPlayerData.cpp LINE=1538
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.916 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] WIN32 FAILURE HR=0x80040240 FILE=.\CPlayerData.cpp LINE=1567
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.916 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] Exception from line: 763
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.918 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] Built:sage.PlaybackException: ERROR (-5,0x80040240): There was a problem rendering the audio portion of the content for playback.
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.919 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] VideoFrame had an error loading the file. It must abort the file load.
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.920 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] Tearing down playback graph
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.920 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] NATIVE Deallocating the CPlayerData object
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.920 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] ....RemoveFilter [\\Research1\Audio Collection\10,000 Maniacs\MTV Unplugged\01 - 10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days.flac] .
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.920 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] ....RemoveFilter [AudRend] .
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.920 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] NATIVE Finished destroying the playback graph
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.921 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] Graph ref Count=1
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.921 [AWT-EventQueue-0@4f459c] cleanupLocalFile called for MediaFile[id=0 A[100000006,100000002,"MTV Unplugged",0@0617.04:17,4] host=HTPC2 encodedBy= format=FLAC 0:04:53 955 kbps [#0 Audio[FLAC 44100 Hz 2 channels  idx=0]] \\Research1\Audio Collection\10,000 Maniacs\MTV Unplugged\01 - 10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days.flac, Seg0[Tue 6/17 4:17:23.402-Tue 6/17 4:22:16.932]]
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.923 [ReProcessHook@74714c] processOptionsMenu optionsMenu=default:PRQST-1234250|OptionsMenu:ErrorMessage
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.924 [VideoFrame-SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI@dbb83a] VF processing job null nPlayin=false
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.924 [VideoFrame-SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI@dbb83a] VF thread is now waiting for 0:00:00.000
Mon 3/22 14:06:46.943 [ReProcessHook@74714c] Increased Thread pool to size=11

Though really, why is SageTV totally not using FFdshow? This is what is really puzzling me. Is this CPlayerData.cpp to blame? I gave it highest merit and I set it to no restrictions. I even set it to allow multiple instances to see if that was the problem. I have no other codecs installed so there should be no merit conflict anyway.