TotalMedia Theatre 5 - Page 119

Got it. Thanks.

My win7 HTPC was booting *very very* slow after my most recent TMT5 update, so I uninstalled it.

the PC still boots very slow. I looked in the event manger and see errors with archlp.sys and arcsec.sys.. I noticed both of these drivers still have registry entries also.

Is there a way to completely remove the drivers or whatever is conflicting? I really do not want to format C: if possible.

I did purchase the update to TMT6 and was going to wait for the slow boot issue to be fixed before installing it.

Probably will stop tmt from working if you disable them.

Anyone having issues with newer MKV files, such as new episodes of Spartacus and The Walking Dead?

When attempting to play these newer episodes, I encounter the error, "Unsupported file type."

My current TMT5 version is 5.3.1.146, however, I tested versions 120, 144, and 145 with the same error given.

Using mediainfo on episodes 1 and 11 from season 3, the only difference between the two is that for episode 1, the writing application shows that mkvmerge 5.8.0 (no sleep/pillow) was used,

where as on episode 11, mkvmerge 6.0.0 (coming up for air) was used. The same application is used for the newer episodes of Spartacus season 3.

The mkvs play in media player and VLC but not TMT5, however files written pre mkvmerge 6.0.0 play fine in all three.

Normally it would be an issue, its that people in my house can't launch these files using Media browser and need to resort to using folder pathways. Not the prettiest method.

Anyone experience a similar issue? Thanks for any comments and suggestions.

@khalid: yes, mkvmerge versions >5.8 have a couple of new parameters which is causing this (there's a thread about this at Arcsoft's forum). Their support has a hot fix, but you need to contact them and they will send it to you.

i cant find setup controls on 6 for audio / video..use to right click and controls would come up...

also what version is it up to i have 6.0.1.119

Thank you Bruce for your reply.
I will attempt to find that thread and see about getting the hot fix.

Thanks again

I rip the bluray using Clown BD to M2TS file (http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=25818
When I play this file in TMT 5 to my AV receiver I dont get all channels of audio as it wasn originally on the bluray disk., Using PDVD 11 I get DTS HD with 7 channel audio as original Bluray but some how I am not getting it through TMT 5 it only sends 5 channel. I have many stabillty issues with PDVD and would love to avoid it if I can.

Thx

if you are playing just the m2ts file directly you won't get DTS-HD or Dolby TrueHD. If you play from a BDMV folder structure or an ISO you will. I use BDinfo to identify the main movie playlist and then rip the main movie & Hi-rez audio stream along with any english PGS to blu-ray folder structure and of course AnyDVDHD. It is easy and fast and saves you a little space. Actually the reason I do it is I despise all the trailers and ads .
Edited by HTPCat - 3/3/13 at 8:42am

Thanks, If I rip using Clown BD, I will then have to select either "Blu-ray" or "blu-ray + ISO" option instead of "M2TS" option in the movie output format.

Is there any player you are aware that can play M2TS with DTS-HD etc.. and display subtitles? my guess is MPC-HC is one option based on my reading in the forums, PDVD 11 does play M2TS with DTS HD but I cannto disply subtitles.

Yes, MPC-HC will, as will Daum PotPlayer (also freeware) using LAV filters (ffdshow would work also, but I prefer LAV).

This is why I hate this player..

Why can't I get sound on hd-dvds?

I have to mix it down to PCM.

Huh?

Yea.. In the audio menu for tmt5. "Mix to PCM uncompressed audio"

The movie plays fine in MPC-HC with DD+

As far as I'm concerned.. Anything other than the original HD audio track is downmixing

That's decoding, not down mixing. There shouldn't be any loss of channels or quality in doing so. If you could bitstream, your AVR would have to do the same thing, so the only real difference is that you don't get the little light on your AVR that shows when bit streaming.

Why can't the damn thing just operate without having to mix it to something else?

A free program (mpc) will do it without any messing around, why pay $100 for this crap if it doesn't operate the right way?

DD+ is DD+. Not PCM.

PCM plays at a lower volume and if I forget that my receiver is turned to a very high volume, I get deafened by the next program I watch.

I have a qualified video card and receiver to bitstream, I do it often. This software is crap. Plain and simple.
Edited by AnthonyB - 3/7/13 at 6:25pm

why would you pay 100 when it's always 60 or less?

Was upgrading today before I put my code in I thought I saw something about $99

PCM is what you get when you remove the container the PCM is contained inside. DD+ is simply one of the many containers out there. Either the player decodes it or the AVR decodes it. The only difference between them is where the decoding is done, the end result is the same. I am surprised you are not complaining TMT will not play Betamax since you are complaining about it actually playing HD-DVD.

Well.. It still is a bug as far as I am concerned. No other software player has this problem.

Um, what other software player still plays HD-DVD's with full menu support? Comparing to a player that just plays the files without full menus isn't an apples to apples comparison. Call it a bug if you want, but I think we should be happy that Arcsoft has even bothered to maintain ANY level of HD-DVD support at this point. Given the simple workaround of having the player do the conversion to PCM, I don't see any need to get all worked up over it. As I recall, this has been a known limitation with TMT HD-DVD support for the entire TMT5 lifespan and not something that's changed recently.

Bitstreamed HD audio is not (and to my knowledge, never has been) officially supported for HD-DVD. An unsupported feature is not a bug.

I guess I'll weigh in now. LOL. The problem is your system, not TMT. The DD+ is getting decoded properly to 48/16. However, because it's 48/16, the audio is passed through windows audio rather than sent exclusive mode. A problem I've asked ArcSoft to fix numerous times to no avail. You can either add Reclock and force exclusive mode, or you can set your windows audio settings properly to 5.1 and 48 and simply enjoy your movies. It's not a bug, will NEVER be "fixed", and quite honestly, you should consider converting the HD DVD's to something more modern anyway. I converted all mine to MKV so I can bitstream them with no issue in another player.

Interestingly, I fired up my copy of TMT that I still had on another drive and through in an HD-DVD. I get DD+ bitstreaming with TMT5 v.120

I wasn't aware that they ever got it working.

Wondering whether someone with more experience in this would have some insight ...

I'm experiencing very frequent audio drops in TMT5 (.145) only when bitstreaming 6.1 and 7.1 HD audio. The drops occur every few minutes, with sometimes multiples in a row, very randomly -- yet sometimes there's a good 10 minutes between drops.

Downmixing to output DTS or similar results in no audio drops, and bitstreaming HD 5.1 results in almost no drops (maybe 2-3 during a whole movie).

Any advice on where to focus my troubleshooting? Does it sound like a resource, settings, or driver issue most likely? My sense tells me it's resource-related (I'm running minimal hardware for blu-ray: P4 3.4Ghz and GT430), but is there that great of a resource increase between 5.1 and 6.1 HD audio?

I'd appreciate suggestions as to this point my changing of drivers and settings hasn't produced a solid resolution.

Is this a new build, or have you had this system built for a while? When did this start happening - just recently or for as long as you've had it set up as an HTPC?

It was a bug. But a useful one.

What are the instructions to get reclock working with TMT5? I already have reclock for WASAPI Exclusive mode in MPC, how do I tell TMT to use it?

I have searched google to absolutely no avail.

There's an option in ReClock when you install it to install into TMT.

Yamaha AVR by chance?

(Also, pedantic but there was no 145 build. So it's 144 or 146. They're basically identical so it's not all that relevant for a troubleshooting situation.)