Official BS.Player forums  

Go Back   Official BS.Player forums > Main forum > General Talk And Support

General Talk And Support General talk and peer-to-peer support about BS.Player and other video and audio multimedia players.

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1 (permalink)  
Old 10th June 2006
dli dli is offline
Junior Member
BS.Player Newbie
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 4
Rep Power: 0
dli is an unknown quantity at this point
Default BS 1.41 no longer playing AC3 after upgrade from 1.36

I have recently upgraded my BSplayer installation from version 1.36 to the latest version 1.41. Ever since BSplaer has stopped playing AC3 track in Xvid AVI files. Using GraphEdit I have verified that those files are rendering just fine using the Nero Audio decoder. Windows Media player has no problem playing them back nor does Nero Showtime. I also have Intervideo WinDVD 7 installed and BSplayer offers to use its AC3 filter. However, whatever the setting in the options dialog (system default, Intervideo AC3, Nero AC3) BSplayer remains mute. This new version of BSplayer is showing an extra configuration page for Intervideo AC3 but it never seems to remember the settings made there (always comes up with all options deselected, even though its radio boxes). Based on the Filter - Advanced dialog it also never seems to use Intervideo AC3 even when expressly configured to do so. Given that using the Nero Audio decoder there is no sound either even though it's working according to the Filter - Advanced dialog (and Graphedit) some more fundamental bug in BSplayer must be at work here. Any help is appreciated.
Reply With Quote
  #2 (permalink)  
Old 10th June 2006
Moderator
BS.Player Master
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Romania
Age: 57
Posts: 5,234
Rep Power: 32
adicoto is on a distinguished road
Default

Usually BSPlayer and Nero audio decoder don't work great together. It is better to install AC3Filter (ver 0.70b is a good one) and BSPlayer will use it to decode AC3 audio streams.
Reply With Quote
  #3 (permalink)  
Old 11th June 2006
dli dli is offline
Junior Member
BS.Player Newbie
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 4
Rep Power: 0
dli is an unknown quantity at this point
Default

Thanks. Installing AC3Filter does in fact revive AC3 sound in BSplayer. Unfortunately, AC3filter by default seems to produce rather low volume audio output which even setting its gain control to maximum cannot fully compensate for. Fortunately, BSplayer can forced to always use AC3Filter so its merit can be set very low so that other non-buggy DS based players won't use it to decode AC3.
Reply With Quote
  #4 (permalink)  
Old 12th June 2006
Moderator
BS.Player Master
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Italy
Posts: 3,037
Rep Power: 27
Tizio will become famous soon enough
Default

AC3 Low Volume
__________________
BSP SkinMaker (v1.07) the one and only Skin Editor for BSplayer
BSP Definitions Manager (v1.02)
BS.Player's FAQ (by BSPeter) | Italian language file (v2.57 build 1051)
Reply With Quote
  #5 (permalink)  
Old 12th June 2006
artam's Avatar
Member
BS.player Regular User
 
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 98
Rep Power: 21
artam is on a distinguished road
Default

dli>
You may have selected the "Normalize Matrix" feature in AC3Filter, just uncheck it and the volume will get increased.
Reply With Quote
  #6 (permalink)  
Old 12th June 2006
dli dli is offline
Junior Member
BS.Player Newbie
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 4
Rep Power: 0
dli is an unknown quantity at this point
Default

No. Normalize Matrix is unchecked. I'm running it with the "loud" preset which only helps a little though. Gonna check out that thread Tizio linked to.
Reply With Quote
  #7 (permalink)  
Old 12th June 2006
Moderator
BS.Player Master
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Italy
Posts: 3,037
Rep Power: 27
Tizio will become famous soon enough
Default

and don't forgat to read olso the last 2 comments by J7N and me in that topic
__________________
BSP SkinMaker (v1.07) the one and only Skin Editor for BSplayer
BSP Definitions Manager (v1.02)
BS.Player's FAQ (by BSPeter) | Italian language file (v2.57 build 1051)
Reply With Quote
  #8 (permalink)  
Old 12th June 2006
dli dli is offline
Junior Member
BS.Player Newbie
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 4
Rep Power: 0
dli is an unknown quantity at this point
Default

Saw that, But I have to increase gain to the maximum to make it usable at all and so far there's no clipping.
Reply With Quote
  #9 (permalink)  
Old 13th June 2006
Digiface's Avatar
Senior Member
BS.Player Power User
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Finland
Posts: 196
Rep Power: 0
Digiface is an unknown quantity at this point
Default

Quote:
You may have selected the "Normalize Matrix" feature in AC3Filter, just uncheck it and the volume will get increased.

is it better with "Normalize Matrix" on? volume is higher without it,but generally is it better with it?
Reply With Quote
  #10 (permalink)  
Old 13th June 2006
J7N's Avatar
J7N J7N is offline
Senior Member
BS.Player Power User
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Cyberspace
Posts: 762
Rep Power: 0
J7N is an unknown quantity at this point
Default

Quote:
Saw that, But I have to increase gain to the maximum to make it usable at all and so far there's no clipping.
That depends on how the AC-3 files are produced and what coefficients you have written in the matrix (Normalize Matrix actually makes the volume lower). AC3Filter has playback VU meters, where you can observe the input & output audio levels.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Tags
141, ac3, longer, playing, upgrade

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 01:11 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.9
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 PL2
Ad Management plugin by RedTyger

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20