ArcSoft TotalMedia (English Version) Availability

[mobileh264]

I had that problem with one .evo, it played at 4*speed. Most disconcerting ans my brain cannot go that fast. Most other evos played with nice video but no audio.

I had a quick look in Graphedit at the Arcsoft filters and managed to build a graph that could play video well.

The arcsoft demuxer filter does not expose a pin for audio when connected to an async .evo source file, so this is what's going wrong in the player perhaps.

Blu ray .m2ts files seem to have audio working inside the arcsoft player, but I haven't fiddled with them in graphedit yet. Will do that later as seperate project, perhaps involving mpc for dshow playback.

As for the previous post involving lots of swearing, I doubt you'll like this approach, so don't flame me, but why not totally remove the antivirus software, then try arcsoft before damning it completely. I really feel this player is the start of something big and would hate for you to be put off unnecessarily.

[mcantu]

i dont know if anyone's noticed this but there is an update available when you go through the programs check for update option....

[digitalfreak]

Originally Posted by mcantu

i dont know if anyone's noticed this but there is an update available when you go through the programs check for update option....

Hmm... Just tried it and it told me there wasn't any updates. Did you do it from within the app or via the pop up in the system tray?

[Mangoat]

Originally Posted by digitalfreak

Hmm... Just tried it and it told me there wasn't any updates. Did you do it from within the app or via the pop up in the system tray?

I think the update is just for the pop up app, not the media player itself.

[bjmills]

Ditto with no go for the ISOs. Also, with some of my movies, the menus don't work. They appear but I cannot navigate. Some movies work fine. Strange.

I have also seen the crashing, on two computers. The third computer worked.

Definitely a lot of promise with this "preview" version though.

[sarah99]

HD-DVD
Seems to work perfectly from top directory, VC1 and MPEG-4 AVC both work although hardware accel may not. Plays audio fine (lossy and lossless) and in surround, menus all work and you can switch languages and subs while playing. Almost all DTS-HD movies fail to work
Transformers, Matrix, Star Trek, Dante's Peak, 2fast 2 furious, children of men, waterworld, bourne ultimatum all fine from directory, can't play MI3. land of the dead, kiss kiss bang bang, unforgiven, v for vendetta, king kong, the mummy, the mummy returns, the graduate, first blood, superman returns

Blu
Can't play from top directory (OK is greyed out), but can play by selecting BDMV directory.
POTC1, POTC 3, blade runner, fifth element, starship troopers, cruel intentions, into the blue, capricorn 1, halloween all fine, plays various audio formats in surround perfectly.

Tried in 3 PCs
PC 1 XP, reboots when app initialised
PC2 XP, works fine
PC3 vista, works fine

Conclusion
OK for HD-DVD but none of the early releases work and you need a powerful cpu as HA broken, pretty good for Blu-Ray ....... crashes on BD+
Mouse control flaky, use the keyboard

Arcsoft also allows you to take screen caps

[WeeJockPooPongMcPlop]

Works on my non BluRay, non HD-DVD laptop - XP Pro SP2

BSOD on my BluRay, HD-DVD enabled HTPC - SP Pro SP2 - bummer !

KH

[DrinkLyeAndDie]

It definitely has a nice UI. Unfortunately I really didn't get a chance to use it. It locked up at the menu when I went to play a SD DVD and I had to kill the process. I also wasn't so enthralled about even more services being installed on my system. I'll wait for an official release and check it out again.

[mcantu]

What version # do you guys show? I have 2.1.6.105

[DrinkLyeAndDie]

Originally Posted by mcantu

What version # do you guys show? I have 2.1.6.105

Yes, that was the version posted.