Combining PowerDVD 7's Audio Decoder and Microsot's MPEG-2 Video Decoder

Nielo TM · 11-09-2008, 10:56 PM

Hey guys

I am stuck having to choose between smooth motion and audio quality, so I need your help trying to get the best of both worlds.

As most of you're aware Microsoft Vista's MPEG-2 Decoder is THE best on the market. The picture quality is absolutely superb and it doesn't judder, stutter or silently drop frames. In fact, the stability of its motion is equivalent to a dedicated hardware MPEG-2 decoder. Too bad I can't say the same for other software decoders (you know who you're are).

However, the Microsoft's audio decoder is very basic, and it doesn't even support DTS. Also, the dynamic range of Dolby Digital is compressed (dull in other words).

CyberLink's PowerDVD on the other hand is the exact opposite. Its DD and DTS audio decoders are amazing, but the MPEG-2 video decoder sucks (like the rest).

So is there a way to use Vista's MPEG-2 decoder with CyberLink's DD/DTS decoder? There must be a registry hack or an alternative to Zoom player???

Steve.J.Davies · 12-09-2008, 12:00 AM

have you tried plugging them together with graphedit ?

Nielo TM · 12-09-2008, 12:18 AM

I'm somewhat ignorant in that field tbh

Could you please expand it a bit

Steve.J.Davies · 12-09-2008, 4:27 PM

very powerful and free tool. not only does it show what filters are used to process a media stream (either by dropping the media stream onto graphedit or by asking it to look at a running program that is playing a stream. You can also use it to create custom graphs that you can apply against media streams so besides being able to choose exactly which codecs will be used yourself you can quickly and easily create custom conversion tools.
is is VERY powerful and easy to use. Best to just get a copy from the web and have a play.
this page explains some use of graphedit.
http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/dvdgraph.shtml

but there is plenty more out there including stuff on custom graphs.

well worth a play

Nielo TM · 15-09-2008, 12:17 AM

it seems that only applies to Zoom player

but I'm tying to get it working with Vista's WMP11

PS: Thanks to a member of doom9 (ranpha), I am now able to use Microsoft’s MPEG-2 decoder with CyberLink’s audio decoder using MPC-HC (x86).

In XP, you can choose which decoder to use when playing DVDs using WMP

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

However, with Vista, there isnt seem to such option.