Lav Filters Working?

[JonnyV 0]

Gave MBT a test drive last night and I really like it. I've been using XBMC with MPC/Lav/MadVr via external player. Which has been OK, but is quite clunky. Consider me sold on MBT.

 

With LAV filters. How do I know they're being used? I have Lav filters installed and they were detected during setup. However, only LAV Splitter and MadVR show up in my System Tray. LAV audio and video do not appear in my System Tray.

 

I have LAV 0.60.1 x86 filters installed and the internal Lav filters that come pre-packaged with MPC.

 

I tried editing Lav audio via MBT GUI to show in system tray via the "show in system tray" checkbox, but with no luck. Lav filters are not in the hidden section of the tray either.

Edited January 22, 2014 by JonnyV

[Yogi 367]

Open both Lav audio and video and there is a checkbox in the properties to "Enable System Tray Icon"

 

They show for me when something is using the Lav filters.

[JonnyV 0]

Open both Lav audio and video and there is a checkbox in the properties to "Enable System Tray Icon"

 

They show for me when something is using the Lav filters.

Thanks for the suggestion, but they were already checked. When I use MPC the Lav icons show up in the tray. When I used MBT the icons don't show up at all. And no, they weren't in the hidden section of the tray.

 

As I mentioned in my original post, MadVr was working as was Lav splitter. DTS and DD audio were also passing to my receiver via SPDIF.

 

Is there a way other than System Tray to confirm if Lav Filters are being used?

Edited January 22, 2014 by JonnyV

[ronvp 92]

If you have the boxes checked on the splitter, audio and video codec, they should show up. I do not know a other method. They do not show up in any of the Task manager windows..

[pmac 143]

Not sure if it'll have an effect or not, but you mentioned you were connected to your receiver with SPDIF, do you have bitstreaming enabled? It could make a difference.

[Deihmos 169]

Windows can already play most of the video and audio formats with just the lav splitter. You need to use win7dsfilter to change the preferred codecs that are used for playback. For mp4, avi and some other formats you will need to disable them in media foundation for lav to take over. 

 

Why did you have to use a different player with XBMC? It can already play everything nice.

 

Here are the screenshots. 

 

Edited January 22, 2014 by Deihmos

[Toro 0]

Graph Studio might be of use, I haven't personally used it but I think it shows a gui on what is being used.

Read about it (and tons of other things) on assassin blog :

[Davidtt485 6]

I would uninstall lav and re install it. check the setting and go from there.

[psykix 97]

+1 for Graphstudio - it shows all the filters being used.

[JonnyV 0]

I would uninstall lav and re install it. check the setting and go from there.

Tried reinstalling both Lav and MBT with no luck. I pre-installed Lav and then MBT, and then tried MBT first which then downloaded Lav

[Erik 124]

EDIT: I updated to the latest Lav filters pack and selected "Show in system tray" within the Video Configuration Menu and then when you are playing a video in MBT (I just make is windowed - not full screen) right click on the green arrow in the system bar (bottom right) and then select Video decoder and you can see what the active decorder is (just below the decoder selection).

 

Hope that helps anybody else, it works for me now.

 

Erik

Edited January 24, 2014 by Erik

[JonnyV 0]

EDIT: I updated to the latest Lav filters pack and selected "Show in system tray" within the Video Configuration Menu and then when you are playing a video in MBT (I just make is windowed - not full screen) right click on the green arrow in the system bar (bottom right) and then select Video decoder and you can see what the active decorder is (just below the decoder selection).

 

Hope that helps anybody else, it works for me now.

 

Erik

That did the trick. Noticed a few things

 

1. LAV Audio shows I'm not bit streaming. Dts is being converted to PCM.

2. I can only get Lav Audio to show via Vobsub icon in the system tray. Once I get it up and check "show in system tray", it shows up. Then when I stop the video and start another video, it's missing again and does not show. Have to go through the same process to get it to appear again the tray.

3. Doesn't appear as if LAV video is working.

[Erik 124]

Hey JonnyV,

 

The best answers I have for you...hope some help

 

1) In  this thread (http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/4160-recent-build-lost-audio/) the audio/bit streaming was broken in the latest build.

2) I get the exact same result. Only once the video is playing, then I click display in system tray does it show up...I'm going to ask this once on the doom9 forum.

3) When you bring up the LAV video from the system tray what does it say for "Active Decoder"? sample pic below:

Note: I use an NVDIA card with CUVID, but MBT isn't setup yet to choose that option so it reverts to this mode currently.

 

[JonnyV 0]

Hey JonnyV,

 

The best answers I have for you...hope some help

 

1) In  this thread (http://mediabrowser.tv/community/index.php?/topic/4160-recent-build-lost-audio/) the audio/bit streaming was broken in the latest build.

2) I get the exact same result. Only once the video is playing, then I click display in system tray does it show up...I'm going to ask this once on the doom9 forum.

3) When you bring up the LAV video from the system tray what does it say for "Active Decoder"? sample pic below:

Note: I use an NVDIA card with CUVID, but MBT isn't setup yet to choose that option so it reverts to this mode currently.

 

Thank you neighbour (I'm in MB ... Damn cold today). The dxva2 decoder is showing as active but I have an AMD 7870.

 

At end of the day. All three LAV are working. However:

 

1. bitstreaming is not working. My audio is converted to PCM

2. Lav audio and video system tray icons do not show up. However, they can be opened via Vobsub icon when a video is playing.