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Help with DTS / DD 5.1 decoding in VLC

Postby nexpos » 16 Feb 2007 03:28

I've been all over the forums in here, searching for a way to eliminate the studdering of any 5.1/dts audio track when playing a movie. I'm using SPDIF, i have it selected, I have win32 waveout selected. Still studders. This is why I recall not using VLC anymore for a while. I'm using onboard REALTEK HD sound, along with Logitech z-5500 speakers. I'm playing various files with 5.1/dts, and they're all the same.

Any other super advanced explanations/discoveries? I see a ton of people posted about this on here, but nothing works.

I'd really appreciate any help.

THanks!

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Postby CloudStalker » 16 Feb 2007 05:57

You could try the second option in this post: viewtopic.php?t=31776 Hope it helps.

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Postby nexpos » 16 Feb 2007 14:18

You could try the second option in this post: viewtopic.php?t=31776 Hope it helps.
tried the dirty one, but with no luck. any other ideas? the audio is still choppy. why is it so hard for this player to handle DTS and 5.1, when something like media player classic handles it like it's a joke?

this is really frustrating! anymore help would be appreciated.

thanks

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Postby nexpos » 16 Feb 2007 21:50

You could try the second option in this post: viewtopic.php?t=31776 Hope it helps.
tried the dirty one, but with no luck. any other ideas? the audio is still choppy. why is it so hard for this player to handle DTS and 5.1, when something like media player classic handles it like it's a joke?

this is really frustrating! anymore help would be appreciated.

thanks
Anyone at all? PLEASE! :)

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Postby nexpos » 20 Feb 2007 02:42

Looks like no one has an answer. If anyone out there cares to watch a movie in VLC with DTS or DD 5.1, please let me know how you got it working. Now I'm starting to understand why so many people use MP Classic instead of VLC........

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Postby DJ » 20 Feb 2007 04:52

It has already been explained hundreds of times in these pages. It appears that VLC 0.8.2 will not work for you either, so what's left?? This should be obvious at this juncture, it's your audio drivers and you may need to start with the latest and work your way back to something that works but not later than Oct 04 as that's when support for DirectX 9 started. It may also be smart to start with the latest DirectX runtime dated 2/07. The only sound cards known not to work are the Creative Audigy and even these have worked with third party drivers.

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Postby nexpos » 20 Feb 2007 05:40

These are Realtek HD Audio drivers on an Abit AB9 Pro motherboard from October of last year. I'll see if there are any better drivers.

Thanks.

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Postby nexpos » 22 Feb 2007 04:38

Nope, the newest audio drivers still don't work.

I'll just check back at a later date, and maybe VLC will be ready for me.

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Postby DJ » 22 Feb 2007 07:35

While there has been talk of rebuilding the s/pdif section nothing is in the works. Simply because there are to few people having issues with it.

I believe just a short time ago there was drivers noted to work with your sound device.

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Postby bretelles » 23 Feb 2007 11:23

Hi,

nexpos, i had the same problem as you and i corrected it yesterday.
I have removed the motherboard sound driver and I have installed the realtek one.
I think you can try this...


Bretelles

PS: note now the DD 5.1 is ok but not the DTS

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Re: Help with DTS / DD 5.1 decoding in VLC

Postby rola » 25 Jan 2008 07:28

I'm also looking for the answer of the problem,thanks for bretelles's method.

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Re: Help with DTS / DD 5.1 decoding in VLC

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 25 Jan 2008 08:24

We are working on that. Try development versions.
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Re: Help with DTS / DD 5.1 decoding in VLC

Postby abobotek » 29 May 2008 04:14

I had a problem with choppy audio/stuttering (some kind of rapid replay of buffered sound, I suppose). It went away after I tweaked the configuration. I'll diff my configs and post the results.

Symptoms/Old config:
* Windows (Vista, XP Media Center, and 2003)
* S/PDIF
* Choppy/stuttering audio with 5.1 (haven't tried DTS)
* Perfect audio with 2 channel S/PDIF
* No video issues (BluRay and DVD video is smooth)
* plenty of horsepower using an E2160 @ 3GHz

After some tuning of VideoLan's config file using the built-in prefs GUI, the 2003 box works perfectly with BluRay and DVDs in 5.1

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Re: Help with DTS / DD 5.1 decoding in VLC

Postby jordan9527 » 14 Jul 2008 13:15

I'm starting to understand why so many people use MP Classic instead of VLC.

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Re: Help with DTS / DD 5.1 decoding in VLC

Postby diamondblast » 19 Oct 2008 08:38

I'm starting to understand why so many people use MP Classic instead of VLC.
there are
many reasons to use MP classic
but you can't take away the advantages of VLC :)
even you can't go back...

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Re: Help with DTS / DD 5.1 decoding in VLC

Postby jeroensky » 19 Oct 2008 11:16

Try these settings (Portaudio)
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=50789&p=164391&hili ... A6#p163798

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Re: Help with DTS / DD 5.1 decoding in VLC

Postby VLC_help » 19 Oct 2008 13:09

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Re: Help with DTS / DD 5.1 decoding in VLC

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 19 Oct 2008 17:18

Don't take up old threads!

This issue is fixed since a long time with WaveOut output.
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