Entree Rep: 0 Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 2 OFFLINE | I’ll try to make this long story short, and probably fail.
I have a XP Pro SP1 machine with PowerDVD 5 that played movies from the DVD-ROM drive and from the hard drive (ripped w DVDDecrypter) with no trouble.
I then started reading about how to backup my DVDs and downloaded some other tools (DVDStripper, MenuEdit, IfoEdit). None of these actually install, you just run what you download. I did have to revert back to an earlier version of DVD Decrypter (3.1.7) because DVDStripper is not able to work with the most recent one.
My DVD playback, whether from the hard drive or the DVD-ROM then became choppy and had no audio. I had GSpot render a VOB file and for video it gave me “MPEG-2 Demultiplexor -> Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder -> Overlay Mixer 2”. For audio it had nothing. MP3s play OK though.
At work, I have a similar machine (XP Pro SP1, same software, except DVD Decrypter 3.1.9). DVD playback is great. GSpot on this machine shows “MPEG-2 Demultiplexor -> Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder” and audio “MPEG-2 Demultiplexor -> Cyberlink Audio Decoder”. At home my video has an extra codec. Could that cause the choppy playback? I know next to nothing about codecs, and unfortunately do not know what codecs were used on my home PC when it was playing back fine. But it is different from a similar machine that is playing OK.
Anyway, at work I uninstalled DVD Decrypter 3.1.9 and installed 3.1.7 (like I have at home) and while the video looks OK on playback, there is no audio. GSpot shows the same codecs for video, but for audio I get an error, saying no audio hardware could be found. MP3s still play, though. Reverting back to 3.1.9 curead everything. BTW, at home GSpot reports no error for the audio, it just shows nothing.
At home, reverting back to DVD Decrypter 3.1.9 changed nothing. Playback still choppy and silent, and GSpot reports nothing different. I even uninstalled PowerDVD and reinstalled it, but no change.
Despite the obvious change in behavior on the work machine related to the different versions of DVD Decrypter, the author of that software says it has to be something else.
So ... if you’re still with me, I’m wondering if I tweaked with the codecs if that may help. I know what GSpot renders on a machine where it works, the machine that doesn’t has an extra codec it uses. What is the Overlaymixer-2? I googled but found nothing that looked promising. If I wanted to not use it, how could I do that? How can I get PowerDVD to use some audio codecs?
Has anyone encountered something similar?
Thanks in advance for any guidance. |
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