MODS please merge - FREE Bluray Player (Including LAV Splitter) option

I will be sure to test it with some blu-ray iso's tomorrow. (don't have a rom in any htpc, just the server).

Thanks for the link. I'm downloading it now for comparison with my Asus oem version of TMT3. I've never upgraded to TMT5 because I only playback BD rips in an avchd format.

it' a scam of mplayer!

check daplayer.dll

you can open it with notepad++ and read


very bad attitude, and not even GPL license included

BHH

Did you actually try it or just read one persons report on it? I'm going to give it a go on my test machine. I will report back later.

By the way, I have found 2 potential work around that I'm going to try for free bluray disc playback. Oe is, you use makemkv with a xbmc BLURAY plugin and the other is the one I'm excited about its called LAVFSplitter. This one sounds like the shi*, its a directshow audio/video splinter/filter that you can implement into many players and it can play pretty muchh any audio or video format including BLURAY. Il post some links.

https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFSplitter

Also make sure you have Microsoft c+ runtime installed. There is a zip file and a new one with an install. But it didn't work for me because I think I have to download runtime, also run as administrator. Read the "read me" file too.

Edit: above when I'm talking about everything, I'm talking about LAVFSplitter, not runtime.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156191

Blu-ray support in LAV Splitter is still relatively new, and is currently limited to just playing a specific title, no title switching in the player (although thats planned).
What you can do is simply open the index.bdmv which will play the longest title (most of the time the main movie), or open a mpls playlist directly.
For the future, you would be able to switch between titles from within your player, but i cannot say yet if that will work in every player, or just in players that directly support it.

Menu support is a no-go for now, although planned for the (distant) future.

It can, but setting it up is up to you. You can disable individual formats from the LAV Splitter properties page, and it would then fall to the next splitter in the chain. The question is if you really use that 2 features that Haali has that LAV Splitter doesn't. (Linked Segments/Ordered Chapters)

Having multiple source filters for the same thing installed is always a bit of a PITA.

This is huge though and I think its just going to get better. I don't use haali either, all I use is ffdshow so I think this will work for me. I believe this might even take the place of ffdshow. It says it has support for dts hd ma and dolby tru hd. Il post back after I try it. Can you guys do the same if you decide to try it?

The splitter supports DTS-HD MA just fine, but you'll still need a commercial audio decoder for DTS-HD, the included audio decoder is based on ffmpeg (like ffdshow) and can only decode the "core" DTS.

If you only use ffdshow audio for pure decoding, and no post-processing tasks, the LAV Audio Decoder can fully replace it already.
You still need a video decoder, as thats not included currently.

BTW, in case you haven't noticed yet, i'm the author.

Yeah I figured that you had some part in it. How do install it? I couldn't figure it out from the zip file and then the install version gave me this error when I tried to install it:
" The module "LAVAudio.ax" failed to load.
Make sure the binary is stored at the specified path or debug it to check for problems with the binary or dependent .DLL files.
The specified module could not ne found."
That one was for the audio install and then when I try to to do the splinter install I get the exact same error except it says "LAVSplitter.ax" at the beginning instead of "LAVAudio.

I'm confused, you said it supports dts hd ma (wich is the hd losless version of dts) then you said it dosnt support dts hd it only supports the core dts. I thought there were only two versions of dts: "dts" and "dts hd ma."

There is multiple components to playback: A splitter, which reads the file and splits audio from video, and then the actual decoders.

The splitter supports DTS-HD.
The decoder does not - nor does any "free" decoder.

You can use the splitter in combination with, for example, the audio decoder from TMT, and you will get full quality audio. If you use the LAV Audio decoder, you will "only" get the DTS, not the HD version.

DirectShow is always modular like that, it always goes basically like this:

Splitter -> Decoder -> Renderer

To get DTS-HD to work, both the Splitter and the Decoder need to support it. My splitter does, but the decoder does not.
The Renderer does not have to support it, because after the Decoder its just plain uncompressed PCM audio data, and just needs to be sent to the sound card.

[quote="Nevcairiel"]

There is multiple components to playback: A splitter, which reads the file and splits audio from video, and then the actual decoders.

The splitter supports DTS-HD.
The decoder does not - nor does any "free" decoder.

You can use the splitter in combination with, for example, the audio decoder from TMT, and you will get full quality audio. If you use the LAV Audio decoder, you will "only" get the DTS, not the HD version.

DirectShow is always modular like that, it always goes basically like this:

Splitter -> Decoder -> Renderer

To get DTS-HD to work, both the Splitter and the Decoder need to support it. My splitter does, but the decoder does not.
The Renderer does not have to support it, because after the Decoder its just plain uncompressed PCM audio data, and just needs to

You say that no free decoder does hd audio, how does MPC-HC and ffdshow do it for example? Also How do install it? I couldn't figure it out from the zip file and then the install version gave me this error when I tried to install it:
" The module "LAVAudio.ax" failed to load.
Make sure the binary is stored at the specified path or debug it to check for problems with the binary or dependent .DLL files.
The specified module could not ne found."
That one was for the audio install and then when I try to to do the splinter install I get the exact same error except it says "LAVSplitter.ax" at the beginning instead of "LAVAudio."

Edit: My question got inserted in the quote above:^

Just Some thoughts;

You may want to either change the title of this thread or start a new one if you're going to continue the discussion of LAVFilter - also, there is already one running over at doom9 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156191) that has lots of information. Those using Nvidia GPUs may want to check out Nevcairiel's other work, LAV CUVID decoder as well (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=160290). These in conjunction with MADVR renderer provide excellent picture quality and support for multiple file / audio types.

Joey, you already have the VC++2010 runtimes installed correct? Other thing you could try would be to run a command prompt as Administrator, change to the folder you extracted the files to, then run the install bat files again.

I'm not sure if I do or not, I havnt been home to check since I got advice from someone that that might be the problem. I was also just checking to see if there were any other possibilities that could be causing the error.

Thanks for the suggestions, il let you know hoe it turns out.

All the gold is over at doom9, frequent the developer threads there more often, and you'll learn much.

Shark007 is just a filter pack, zipping up other peoples work, with some custom config UI on top.

I actually develop some of these filters.

Comparing that isn't really possible.