Advanced MPC-HC Setup Guide - Page 55

I am having a problem getting DVD .iso's to play when launched from MediaBrowser. The menus don't work.

Manually mounting an .iso and opening it from the menu in MPC-HC and everything works fine. Launching from MediaBrowser and the menu comes up but is unresponsive and can't be controller via the remote or mouse.

I've searched this thread and can't find a good answer. Can anyone help?

sorry for this maybe Noob question. I use MPC-HC and have set up madvr etc. However.... I have my HTPC connected to a Yamaha Rcvr that has a video processing chip in it. Do any of the changes I make to what MPC-HC video rendering is using even make a difference because my rcvr will basically do its own thing with the video stream? It seem like if I had the HTPC directly connected to the Plasma then I would see some changes with the video rendering/filters I set up in MPC-HC....??

thanks,
fschris

will this guide work on windows 8 PC?

Windows 8....is just windows 7 as long as you use the desktop feature. Not the metro app!

That's what i thought of too..i'm using start8 windows start button and my htpc boots up directly to desktop. With W8 my HTPC boots up and shuts down a lot faster.

MPC-HC rocks and now plays all my files (MKV, m2ts, bluray folder structure etc) . Anyway, I'm having issues. my AVR (Onkyo 606) no longer lights up during bitstreaming in windows 8. I no longer see HD Master, dolby and DTS just PCM. I have HTPC to AVR to TV all connected via HDMI. I followed every step on the first page except the part where i have to select 5.1 on the sound configuration, windows 8 only shows stereo! I remember in W7 i am able to select between 5.1, 7.1 etc. I have ATI Radeon 5450 with Catalyst 13.1 updated drivers. My audio doesn't sound as great as before Anyone encountered the same issue? any help?

The video processor in your receiver is just another place you can make adjustments, just like you can change them in MPC-HC, MadVR, your video card drivers, on the display itself, etc. If you set them to "off" or in neutral settings, they shouldn't have any effect.

AFIK... I would take a Blue Ray and Make a MKV and only select the TrueHD sound track. I use MPC-HC etc. My Yammy RCVR will never say TrueHD. It just says PC. However if that is the only audio track I selected to accompany the file it has to be TrueHD. I think its not to important for the Rcvr to indicate TrueHD.

I will also add I had used the ATI card in the past etc. I always seemed to have strange issues. I have had zero issues since I tossed it and went to a core i3.

I think if you set Lav to output Dolby or DTS bitstreaming it won't matter if you can't set Windows 8 to multichannel out. That should only effect PCM output to the AVR. If you bitstream then I think that bypasses Windows' stereo limitation because it's not encoding/decoding the audio. I don't know if that helps with your compressed files, but right now I have Princess Bridge BD playing with bitstreaming and my Yamaha shows the decoder as "DTS-HD MSTR."

On another note..

I'm using MPC-HC with madVR and Lav filters. My video card is a Radeon HD 7750 and I'm currently getting 1 Frame Repeat every 6.50 hours at the CCC's 24p setting. I've read that with AMD CCC 23 Hz and 24 Hz are the same because when I choose 23 Hz it reverts to the 24 Hz option. But if I check Windows 7's display properties it shows 23 Hz. MadVR shows 23.9768 Hz, so I know it's the right setting, and to further prove the proper framerate my TV allows me to switch to 48 Hz if I choose. Just wondering, does the TV usually perform 3:2 pulldown better than HTPC or standalone devices or should it not matter?

Another question I have with MPC-HC and the set up is a few of my ogm/mkv/avi files get a black frame when enlarged beyond a certain size. Is this a setting or limitation of madVR or something else? It doesn't happen with all my compression video files, only some, but I'm not sure what might be causing it. Has anyone else run into this issue?

I am having problems with the display modes with mpc-hc and madvr. In madvr, I have listed 1080p24 to change the display to 24hz when playing films. The problem is that mpc-hc crashes everytime this is enabled! If I have mpc-hc playing a movie and I change the refresh rate manually, mpc-hc crashes. If I change the refresh rate BEFORE starting the movie, it works fine, but I would like to use the automatic function! Any ideas? Thank you!

Do your video card and TV support that resolution?

Have you enabled it in your video card settings?

Yes, they do support it. If I change it to 24hz 1080p in the ATI control panel before opening the video, everything works flawlessly. I am using...

Phenom ii x4 955 Oc'd to 3.6
Radeon 6670
Onkyo r390 receiver
LG 55LS4500

All connected via HDMI

Update:

Checking the box for "enable automatic fullscreen exclusive mode" has allowed my display to automatically change it's refresh rate when I start a 23.976fps movie. I had previously UNchecked this, because otherwise when I right click in MPC-HC to check filters or see any options, the screen flickers and switches between full-screen exclusive and windowed modes.

When I am starting my videos, they do not automatically start, and in face if I put my mouse at the bottom of the screen, the seek bar and controls do not show up. I have to exit out of full screen mode, press play in mpc-hc, then re-enter full screen mode.

Any ideas what is going on??

I'm having the same issue, when MPC-HC launches from Media Browser, the movie is paused. I can just hit play and it'll start, no need to exit full screen mode. Not a big deal, seems to have started with the recent MadVR version.

Mine wont work by pressing play on the keyboard for some reason. It definitely won't play for me unless I exit full screen mode....weird.

Hello,

I have followed everything as the guide said, but I think there is something wrong. When I check my filters, my audio is set as "MPC Audio Decoder". Shouldn't it be LAV Audio Decoder? The LAV is set as preferred.




Best regards.

Just wanted to say that my wife and I very recently purchased a new Dell XPS8500 with Windows 8 64, i5, 16gb RAM, integral BD ROM and PDVD 10 and an nVidia Geforce GT620. (What a machine!)

Because the computer is located in the same area as our new TV, I installed MPC-HC, LAV filters, MadVR and ReClock.

To put playback comments as briefly as possible................... WOW! The PQ and playback smoothness are incredible on our new Sharp Aquos 70" and MPC's incremental zoom is a great feature for making those slot-vision 2.75:1 movies such as "Battle of the Bulge" a bit more acceptable without losing too much image on the sides.

As a result of turning our new desktop PC into an HTPC / PC, we don't need to buy yet another BD player for our new TV. Great!

A big thumbs up to MINDBOMB for starting this thread and following through with support.

Hey,

Really nice guide. I will try it once I've received my brand new LED screen.

Would you have some before/after examples to show how much it works ?

By the way, I also saw some other guides with much more filters. Wouldn't it be better to add a few more right here ?

Hi to all.

I installed how it wrote here. But i have a few questions.

I have an old Sony receiver STR-DE215. Because it is not digital i have to leave all how it on picture?


but i am planning to use HDMI for a new plasma tv. In this way i have to leave it again how it is on the picture?


Only what i change into madVR are these:






In MPC-HC 'output' i put madVR, turn off in 'internal filters' i turn off all from the left side, i set for 'external filters' lav audio dec., lav filter and lav video dec. and put on prefer. I do not have haiil media spliter.

That is all for perfect picture?

I have not gotten .iso files to launch from media browser but they will launch from the 7MC movie library with the following modifications from renethx. Give this a try.
http://www.avsforum.com/t/940972/guide-to-building-a-htpc-workstation-and-server/18750#post_22605777

Thanks for that. I had read that sometime ago and completely forgot about it.

In any case, there is a way to setup Media Browser to play DVDs directly in MPC-HC that works beautifully using the MB Configurator. It does not work for blu-rays though unfortunately. Since I have only like 2 BD .iso's (compared to dozens of DVDs) I'll just deal with BDs manually.

Just FYI, I do remux/rip movies and tv shows and most everything to files. But I've a collection of special interest (no not porn) DVDs where you really need the menus to pick and choose what you want to see from them.

I have the same problem as him (menus not working), but there is an additional one: there is no sound output. My Daemon Tools Pro isn't even mounting the image on the drive I designated the Media Browser to do so. What is strange is that when I manually mount the image, the MPC-HC is completely capable of playing the DVD (using the 'Open DVD/BD...' function, outside Media Browser though).

Any idea of what that may be? Also about my previous post, anyone got any idea (is that normal)?

This is the fix. In MB Configurator:

-uncheck .iso from MPC-HC external players.
-uncheck auto-play (DVD will play in MPC-HC)

I know this sounds counter intuitive but it works. What happens is MB mounts the .iso, auto-play is off so WMC does nothing, MB then launches MPC-HC to play the "disc" itself, not the .iso.

You can check auto-play and the DVD will play in WMC's native player if you'd rather that.

Thanks, but it didn't work. When I choose to play the concert, the screen remains the same and Daemons Tools Pro opens on the background (just noticed that because I Alt + Tab to check why the .iso wasn't open). Also, the .iso is not mounted to the driver it should be. I tried to follow renethx's instructions for a long time now, but it never worked.

I think I posted earlier about adding ffdshow as an external filter at the end of the external filter list. That seemed to get me the DVDNAVIGATOR and my problems with menus were solved. Make sure to block haali in the external filter list if you do this.

However, I cannot get DVDs and .iso to work with media browser and I just use the movie library from 7MC or play DVD from 7MC. I think I use to get .iso to play from media browser and using the movie library in 7MC loses the nice informative interface of media browser. But the isos play.

Do you have the right path/file setup in the configurator for mounting .iso's? Getting the .iso mounted correctly seems to be the root of the problem.

Yes, it's set to the DTPro executable.

id like to see if i can get my Yammy to light up with DTS HD etc.... any tips? i believe they are paying in dobly true HD but I have never seen the Rcvr indicate it

Hi I'v recently set up MPC-HC to launch via media browser, things seem okay except when it starts the mouse is visible over the video and doesnt disappear, when I right click for the menu's they load but under the video, for some reason I cannot adjust the volume either with the remote . Is there any way to fix these issues as there is some improvement in the video quality that i dont want to lose ? The mouse problem in particular is very annoying. Any help would be great.

Did you click the optimize button in mediabrowser when setting it up for external use?

Yes I clicked the optimize button when I set it up