TotalMedia Theatre 5 - Page 9

Originally Posted by deandob

Interesting. I might give MPC-HC a try to see if there is a quality difference. Can MPC-HC play a blu-ray straight from disk (assuming BD menus are not supported) and decode the HD audio codecs? I checked into this a year back and it seems the open source players were a long way from being "insert disk and play" ready.

I still have one remaining question (sorry for the pestering ), if I have a video card that is 3 years old, will the newer video cards give a better picture when using hardware rendering?

Originally Posted by vladd

Argh! Why do you keep sending me back there? Their forum takes > 60secs to load a page on IE9. It's not ArcSoft's problem but it looks like the IE6 htc bug is back in IE9. It's being tripped by the png fix behavior that is run for every tag on the page.

Anyway...

The hotfix worked for me. It would be nice if we could get it back ported for TMT3.

Originally Posted by SamuriHL

Yea, I know, IE9 on their site sucks. Chrome isn't much better, unfortunately.

I'm glad the hotfix worked for you. It's really good to see ArcSoft pumping out hotfixes like this. It gets the fixes into more people's hands quicker without having to wait for a fully vetted build. Granted, it means they haven't been fully tested, but, that's the tradeoff with getting fixes quickly. At least now people have a choice.

Originally Posted by cybrsage

Agreed. I would rather have a hotfix right away which MIGHT break something else but fixes my KNOWN problem than wait a month for the same thing.

To me, it shows Arcsoft wants its consumers to be happy.

Originally Posted by jhoff80

I'm only using the trial, but it doesn't appear to support bitstreaming on my ATI 6850 like PowerDVD 10 does.

It's a shame, since the Media Center interface is excellent.

Originally Posted by jhoff80

This ended up being pure user error on my part.

I somehow forgot that the disc that I had been trying to get TrueHD to work with only had a Dolby Digital track.

Originally Posted by vladd

To get rid of the drive list in the MCE plugin (I see no real use for it), replace [TMT5 Program Folder]\\MCEUI\\Skin\\Normal\\Template.xml with the following:

Originally Posted by vladd

To get rid of the drive list in the MCE plugin (I see no real use for it), replace [TMT5 Program Folder]\\MCEUI\\Skin\\Normal\\Template.xml with the following:

Originally Posted by zryder

So I thought I would check and see what the current status of TMT5 is.
I have almost all of my movies ripped to MKV, with chapters and lossless original audio.
From the MCE interface, will TMT5 play these, and will it bitstream the lossless codecs?

Originally Posted by SamuriHL

It will play them but you don't get audio selection nor do you get internal PGS sub support. Also no bitstreaming, however, with ReClock (which, btw, guys and gals, a new version was released this morning that supports TMT5) I can get bit perfect PCM decoded audio. However, without PGS sub support it's not quite there for me just yet.

Originally Posted by jmone

Anyone else see (with the full version) that TMT5 just sits on the opening "warning" screens till you press ChNext (eg on the latest Robin Hood)?

Originally Posted by jmone

Anyone else see (with the full version) that TMT5 just sits on the opening "warning" screens till you press ChNext (eg on the latest Robin Hood)?

Originally Posted by zryder

so you are still using MPC-HC for your MKV's then?

Since you are basically my hero, when you switch, I will consider doing the same.. lol

Originally Posted by zryder

so you are still using MPC-HC for your MKV's then?

Since you are basically my hero, when you switch, I will consider doing the same.. lol

Originally Posted by ricabullah

Let me say, what is missing in MPC is just 3D for the time being.

(i don't care menus, etc btw )

Originally Posted by SamuriHL

Right, MPC isn't missing much, it's just difficult to setup for some people. Once it's set up it's perfectly fine and very flexible. However, TMT5 if it had proper MKV support would be SO simple to install and use. No messing with codecs, splitters, configuration, etc.

Originally Posted by ricabullah

But still downsamples Chris Botti to 48/16, right?

BTW there is still no perfect solution for mkv IMO, even in MPC-HC?

Originally Posted by SamuriHL

Right, MPC isn't missing much, it's just difficult to setup for some people. Once it's set up it's perfectly fine and very flexible. However, TMT5 if it had proper MKV support would be SO simple to install and use. No messing with codecs, splitters, configuration, etc.

Originally Posted by deandob

But isn't MPC a backward step if it doesn't have support for DTS-HD MA? Is it coming?

Originally Posted by thrang

I just cannot use TMT5 (MC plug in) reliably -

I'm seeing the re-introduction of 24p stutter (no Reclock), something that I was able to finally rid myself of with Catalyst 10.9/TMT3/no Reclock.

I'm also getting horrible static upon exiting the player sometimes, whether bitstreaming or PCM mix. All Windows audio then dies, and I have to restart.

So back to TMT3 (and a waste of $50 at this point...)