- #AC3 FILTER SPEAKER LAYOUT MOVIE#
- #AC3 FILTER SPEAKER LAYOUT MP4#
- #AC3 FILTER SPEAKER LAYOUT INSTALL#
Plex Media Player has the capability to perfectly decode most “HD audio” formats, and enabling passthrough creates drawbacks that you likely want to avoid. Only do that if you are very well informed about what it entails, because it’s probably not what you want here. One example of when you would use this is if you have 1 subtitle stream with more than 1 language in it, as you can use this menu to choose English rather than say, Czech.Tip!: We do not recommend enabling passthrough as the first thing you do. The main subtitles options where you will enable subtitles to use them, and choose the correct ones you want to display.Īnd the less used subtitles language menu (right click to bring up the menu) and choose Navigate > Subtitle Language. The player has 2 subtitle related menus by the way.
#AC3 FILTER SPEAKER LAYOUT MOVIE#
To tell if a movie has subtitles embedded, you may look at its properties once you have opened it in MPC by right clicking and choosing properties. mkv format movie with subtitles, you should have available all the same options as as in the captures in this guide. If you notice, mine shows DTS decoder running because I am not using SPDIF pass-through in the AC3Filter settings, and therefore it is being decoded by the filter. Now that everything is set up, if you want to see what filters the player is using in the chain, right click on the screen again to get the menu and choose Filters.
Under the Sytem tab, you can modify what the filter decodes by checking the boxes under "AC3 filter decodes". If the amplifier unit etc the SPDIF output is connecting to can decode DTS audio you should enable DTS pass through for SPDIF as well by checking the DTS Passthrough box on the SPDIF settings tab. If your computer soundcard has digital SPDIF output that you are using, you need to enable SPDIF also. If you have a 5.1 speaker setup etc, you need to change to the correct setting from the Output Format dropdown box on the Main tab to the one appropriate for your speakers, as the default is just for 2 speakers. This is accessed from the start menu programs by running the AC3filter Config. Turn off the appropriate transform filters you wont need under audio as well, such as AC3, DTS, etc.all of them except for the bottom 4 in the list.Ĭhanging AC3 filter settings may not be a must to hear sound, but to get the best sound quality you will probably need to change the default settings. You will want to turn off (under Source Filters) matroska, DTS, MP4, MPEG audio as this should not be handled by the media player itself because you are letting it be handled by the other filters you installed. If you dont configure the output in this step, media player's menus will have subtitles selectable but they will not show on the screen.Īlso in options you should disable Mediaplayer's default codec handling since you are using external filters. Go to View > Options menu and choose Output. To set up subtitles the first thing you need to do is make sure it can display them.
#AC3 FILTER SPEAKER LAYOUT INSTALL#
Many also include AC3 or DTS audio, and while media player classic does have the abiltiy to handle most audio already, a seperate filter will allow more control with the output settings so you should also install an AC3 filter found at:Įxtract the media player zip file into a folder and move the player wherever you want it, and install the AC3 filter and matroska splitter.
#AC3 FILTER SPEAKER LAYOUT MP4#
The most used container for x264 is either mp4 or mkv, so you should get Matroska Splitter from: We will go home media version as it is the most updated and intended to stay with current video trends (and keep the bugs away!). The player: Media player classic has 3 versions - the old, the new, and the newest branch Media Player Home Media.
You do not want it handling your AC3 and DTS audio however, so make sure those are unchecked. If using ffdshow just install with default options, which basically sets it to decode all popular types of video. You can either get CoreCodec 1.6.5 (which is not free) or you can use the latest build of ffmpeg (which is free) from: mkv containter format the most effective way with the highest quality (that i know of anyways!).įirst and foremost, you need a way to decode h264 / x264 audio. A simple guide to setup media player classic to play h264 in.