MomoBrut Posted January 2, 2009 Posted January 2, 2009 I installed my new HTPC with DVBViewer as Media centre. I am using DVBViewer for more than 6 months and I like it especially for its OSD. But there are some small things that are annoying. I would like to write some words about playing CD Audio. New BR or DVD drives are very noisy, so it is necessary to lower their speed, otherwise the noise is very very annoying. So I used Nero Drive Speed to set the speed and other usefull parameters. It works perfectly with Windows Media Player. When I try to use DVBViewer to play CD-Audio with Nero Drive Speed in background, the DVBViewer freezees ... Another problem is playing CD-Audio burned without pauses between tracks. DVBViewer can not play this CD without pauses ... When a track is skipped or when I search in track, some tail of previous sound is played back first (hundreds of ms), it is like some wrong buffer reading ... I did not found any setting in filters to solve those problems. Can anybody help, please ... Thanks MB Quote
MomoBrut Posted January 3, 2009 Author Posted January 3, 2009 Hmmm ... After some tweaking I found out, that DVBViewer some how locks optical drive and it is not possible to access drive with another application. Windows media player do not do this .... I can send support.zip, if it helps ... Please reply this message ... Quote
MomoBrut Posted January 3, 2009 Author Posted January 3, 2009 Hmm ... It seems like CDaudio.ax need some update. Is it possible to use another filter? I tried CLAudioCD.ax with no succes ... :-( Quote
Griga Posted January 3, 2009 Posted January 3, 2009 http://www.free-codecs.com/download/CDDA_Reader.htm You will have to unregister CDAudio.ax and to register the new one. For me CDAudio.ax works quite well, as for most users. Maybe your problems are system-related - sometimes things don't meet as they should. I didn't test it with Nero Drive Speed, however. You may want to try this frequently used alternative: http://www.cd-bremse.de/cdbremse.htm (German software, German UI, "CD Bremse" = "CD Break", "Geschwindigkeit" = "Speed") Short gaps between the tracks are almost inevitable if CD playback is DirectShow based, since the tracks are handled as separate files. WMP uses a different approach - dunno which one, WMP is not open source. A general "seamless playback" feature in DVBViewer could help to avoid it. Maybe it will come some day, plus a reworked CDAudio.ax, but there are so many other things to do, you know... Quote
MomoBrut Posted January 4, 2009 Author Posted January 4, 2009 (edited) Thank you, it helps a lot. I have got BD/HD-DVD ROM LG GGC-H20L. It is good drive, but playing CD-DA with this drive is a pain. CD-bremse is better compared to Drive speed, CD-bremse can run together with DVBViewer and slows the speed correctly and it works after resume from S3 also (Drive speed do not). The last problem with speed is when CD-DA is inserted, for the first time it is read at full speed. The cddareader.ax is better compared to CDAudio.ax, seek in track or skip a track is much faster with cddareader.ax. The inserted pause, when playing CD-DA without pauses between tracks, is significantly shorter now, but there is still some short pause. I tried PowerDVD to play CD without pauses at it was fine without pauses, the result was the same as with WMP. Thank you very much for your help. MB Edited January 4, 2009 by MomoBrut Quote
MomoBrut Posted January 9, 2009 Author Posted January 9, 2009 Hi, I have tried some filter graphs for playing CD tracks in graphedit. I succeeded with very simple graph CLAudioCD.ax and Default DirectSound Device. When CDAudio.ax is unregistered and CLAudioCD.ax is registered, DVBViewer results vith error in filter graph. Why DVBViewer can not make such a simple graph? Quote
Griga Posted January 9, 2009 Posted January 9, 2009 Why DVBViewer can not make such a simple graph? Dunno. Sometimes things don't meet... normal experience of PC users, isn't it? In the past, DVBViewer relied on CDDAReader.ax or whatever people had installed, but those filters caused too many problems. So I wrote CDAudio.ax that fixed most of it. However, obviously not in your case. Well, I didn't expect it to work everywhere under all conditions. That assumption would have been rather naive... Quote
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