Yammm - Yet Another Media Meta Manager

[CBers]

Well, that didn't work.

Tried the Preferred DirectShow Filters Tool for Windows 7 tool and selected CoreAVC over Microsft but still no difference in MC.

So I installed ffdshow and selected it instaed of CoreAVC and/or Microsoft. Still no AC3/AAC passed through.

Even disabled AC3/AAC inside ffdshow to see if it was being blocked and still no difference.

GOM Player still passes AC3/DTS through just fine so I know it's not my receiver.

My little Archos TV+ still plays the same files and passes AC3 to my receiver, so I'm assumnig that it is definitely MC not working correctly in my set-up.

Any further suggestion would be appreciated.

Also, why does it take MC so long to start up ?? It is almost 1 minute before the menus are navigable.

I'm not adverse to re-installing Windows 7 if you think starting afresh might help ??

TIA

 

[mikinho]

CBers, what build are you running? I'm asking because pre 7100 AC3 didn't work right in MC7. AC3 is suppused to be natively supported in MC7.

Have you run through the speak setup in Media Center? And if you're using SPDIF, disable the mixer in FFDShow. You'll want it to passthrough.

btw, Build 7600.16384 seems to work better for me with less tweaks. Might be worth trying.

 

[CBers]

Hi mikinho.

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I am running RC1 Build 7100.

Do you mean in the SETTINGS section ??

I set it to 5.1 in there, although I don't get any sound out of my WOOFER when I run the TEST

Anyway, I have disabled MIXER in FFDSHOW and guess what, I now have Dolby being detected on my receiver

Many thanks.

Now to YAMMM it up

 

[mikinho]

Hi mikinho.

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I am running RC1 Build 7100.

Do you mean in the SETTINGS section ??

I set it to 5.1 in there, although I don't get any sound out of my WOOFER when I run the TEST

Anyway, I have disabled MIXER in FFDSHOW and guess what, I now have Dolby being detected on my receiver

Many thanks.

Now to YAMMM it up

Glad I could help.

 

[CBers]

Thanks for all your help mikinho

No doubt I'll be back for YAMMM help next

 

[copernicus]

The services isn't touching a mapped network drive folder? What should I do?

 

[mikinho]

The services isn't touching a mapped network drive folder? What should I do?

Could you give a little more detail on the setup?

For Yammm to work with mapped drives a couple things are typically needed:

1- UNC Path needs to be used instead of the mapped drive. Note: A workaround is in place in v1.2

2- Under the library tab you'll need to provide remote credentials that have access to the remote share. For this I was thinking of using a dll injection method to "borrow" any saved username\passwords that are stored in the LSASS. I've used this technique successfully in the past but it is probably overkill for Yammm.

If you give me more details I"ll see if anything else is missing.

 

[copernicus]

I just remembered reading about the unc path, just changed it and no go.

I have a NAS with a share of movies on it. There's no credentials needed as we are both on the same workgroup.

\\Server_Name\Seagate250GB\Movies

That's the UNC path right? I added that instead of the mapped drive.

edit: There we go, now it's all good, the UNC path did it. (Should make a note of that in the first post over at the green button)

 

[mikinho]

I just remembered reading about the unc path, just changed it and no go.

I have a NAS with a share of movies on it. There's no credentials needed as we are both on the same workgroup.

\\Server_Name\Seagate250GB\Movies

That's the UNC path right? I added that instead of the mapped drive.

edit: There we go, now it's all good, the UNC path did it. (Should make a note of that in the first post over at the green button)

I have a webiste setup that I'm trying to finalize and publish along with v1.2 that has a FAQ section and a make shift wiki. I hope to publish soon but things keep coming up.

 

[copernicus]

Another question(request? =P). How would getting subtitles automatically work? I know WMP doesn't support .srt subtitles, but I'd be nice to have them in the same folder where I could access them easy after loading up media player classic or something.

 

[mikinho]

Another question(request? =P). How would getting subtitles automatically work? I know WMP doesn't support .srt subtitles, but I'd be nice to have them in the same folder where I could access them easy after loading up media player classic or something.

It is a feature suggestion Orbital Shark PM'd me about a while ago. My idea was to have a preferred language in Yammm and a couple options for downloading like "Always", "Foreign Film Only", ..... It would then check for the most appropiate subtitles at Subtitles - download DivX subtitles from the biggest open subtitles database using the actual runtime of the file(s).

It did not make it into v1.2 but I do plan to look into it more for 1.3 as I had some bugs to work out still in matching.

 

[mikinho]

btw, Both WMP and WMC support subtitles if you use a 3rd party decoder. You'll either need to have it enabled by default or use a plugin for turning it on and off.

 

[copernicus]

Very cool, thanks. When my paycheck comes in I'll send a donation your way.

 

[copernicus]

I just remembered reading about the unc path, just changed it and no go.

I have a NAS with a share of movies on it. There's no credentials needed as we are both on the same workgroup.

\\Server_Name\Seagate250GB\Movies

That's the UNC path right? I added that instead of the mapped drive.

edit: There we go, now it's all good, the UNC path did it. (Should make a note of that in the first post over at the green button)

Well, yammm decided to only do about half of the movies on this drive. =/

 

[mikinho]

Well, yammm decided to only do about half of the movies on this drive. =/

Making a final change to Yammm 1.2, it is a fix for W7 RTM. After that it will be released. It will show why certain folders didn't match and let you fix. And hopefully match better as well =) It will also use the real DVDID for most movies now as well.

 

[settingsun]

Making a final change to Yammm 1.2, it is a fix for W7 RTM. After that it will be released. It will show why certain folders didn't match and let you fix. And hopefully match better as well =) It will also use the real DVDID for most movies now as well.

Hi Mikinho, your app is a life saver. Will it be released today as I'm just reinstalling and it would be a great help.
many many thanks

 

[mikinho]

Hi Mikinho, your app is a life saver. Will it be released today as I'm just reinstalling and it would be a great help.
many many thanks

Not today, sorry. I took the day off of work to head to the beach and tonight my wife and I are enjoying a night out. I'll keep everyone posted.

 

[settingsun]

no problem, I see you are a former WoW player, my wife lives in the game, own guild etc etc lol

 

[mikinho]

no problem, I see you are a former WoW player, my wife lives in the game, own guild etc etc lol

My wife played as well but before I knew her. I sold my accounts a while ago, before BC, I got around $2,000 for them. It paid for a new computer

I'll be working on Yammm today :huh:

 

[settingsun]

My wife played as well but before I knew her. I sold my accounts a while ago, before BC, I got around $2,000 for them. It paid for a new computer

I'll be working on Yammm today :huh:

lol, this prompted my wife to go find out how much her's are worth, one of them is worth about £400.00!!!! :shock:

I'll keep my eyes peeled for the update.
cheers settingsun