Is there an alternative to CoreAVC? - Please....

[CineManno]

Hello,

I'm in desperate need of an alternative of CoreAVC as a directshow filter. The reason is that CoreAVC requires the Haali Media Splitter and this doesn't go well with the Sony software of my cam. The Haali software seems to split the m2ts files right at the beginning and makes the m2ts files inaccessible for the Sony sofwtare. So I am looking for another DirectShow filter/splitter for AVCHD that does not mess up my Sony Software. Anyone. Please...

By the way, I was not impressed by the deinterlacing of CoreAVC. My videos were still heavily interlace-artefacted when watching back in Windows Media Player.

Thanks in advance

Menno

[jagabo]

You can use ffdshow instead of CoreAVC. But you'll still need a media splitter. A typical DirectShow filter change will include a file reader (opens and buffers the file), a media splitter (splits audio and video streams), video and audio decoders (decompresses audio and video streams), maybe a colorspace converter (to get the video in a state you graphics card likes), and vidoe and audio renderers (to actually display the video and play the audio).

It's not really the decoder's job to deinterlace. The player or video renderer should do it. CoreAVC's deinterlacer works fine for me though. Which setting were you using?

[CineManno]

Hi,

Well for deinterlacing I used all settings. Weave, blend, bob, didn't notice much difference though when playing back on my monitor with windows media player. I was not impressed. Maybe it doesn't work. It was version 1.6 of CoreAVC. What's the latest version?

Okay, so what I really want is to be able to play AVCHD and to be able to feed to to adobe flash encoder. I want to upload files on my webpage. CoreAVC + Haali did this, but Haali and my Sony Picture Motion Browser don't go together. I noticed the Haali splitter splits the m2ts file immediately when viewed in graphedt. So the output of the m2ts file is a split video and audio part. Other codecs first get "fed" into the adobe (mainconcept) splitter (seperate block) and then split and further transferred to a video and audio decoder. So it looks like Haali is taking over the control of the media file. It can then not be fed "unsplit" to the Sony software, which the Sony software doesn't like.

So I'm looking for something else then the Haali splitter. (Unfortunately ffdshow also uses the Haali splitter.) Or actually I'm looking for an AVCHD directshow filter that does not use the Haali splitter. Any thoughts?

Menno

[jagabo]

Well for deinterlacing I used all settings. Weave, blend, bob,

The version of CoreAVC I'm using doesn't have weave, blend, and bob settings. At least by those names:



"Software double frame rate" is probably similar to bob in whatever program you are using. "No deinterlacing" is the same as weave. "Software deinterlacing" appears to a drop-field-and-resize deinterlace, or maybe some kind of smart deinterlace. "DirectShow deinterlace" probably just passes the interlaced (weave) frames to DirectShow for deinterlacing.

If you use GraphEdit to change the deinterlace settings while viewing the video in another program you'll have to reopen the video in that program before the change takes place.

Other codecs first get "fed" into the adobe (mainconcept) splitter (seperate block) and then split and further transferred to a video and audio decoder.

That first "splitter" isn't really a splitter then. Probably just a remultiplexer to get it into a form that the later splitter understands.

[CineManno]

I seem to have another version of AVCCodec. Thanks for the infor, but it still seems that CoreAVC (and ffdshow for that matter) requires Haali and that program is the troublemaker on my PC. Or do you have a solution for CoreAVC that does not require Haali?

[jagabo]

Haali parses the m2ts data and splits the audio and video into separate streams. I don't know of any parser that will turn the m2ts data into format (program stream maybe) that could be fed to your other software.