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Settings for optimal AC3 avi files playback?

Hi all.
I search whole internet from time to time for a answer to my problem and unfortunatly can't find it. Hope someone could finally help me. If you have same/similar software/hardware as me and found a way to hear ac3 divx/xvid .avi files the way they are supossed to be heard then please help me and tell me exactly how you did it.

First what i have:
- SB Audigy with drivers for Audigy2 (works great, better sound etc. tutorial on this can be found here: http://www.tech-pc.co.uk/audigy-1.php)
- Creative DesktopTheater 5.1 DTT2200 speakers (without hardware DD decoder)
- Windows XP Professional SP1
- I have installed only XviD codec, DivX audio codec, OGG DirectShow filters, ffdshow and ac3filter0_70b. For watching movies i use only Windows Media Player 6.4.

All seems fine (every film is working, i hear surround sound etc.) but it doesn't sound same as i heard on my friends 5.1 speakers with DD decoder (i dont know what card/settings he was using) My surround (rear) speakers are very quiet etc. I don't know how to express it but it sounds different from what i heard at friends house. At ac3filter i use these settings : 3/2+SW 5.1 channels, sample format PCM 24bit. If i set SPDIF and let the card decode ac3 it sounds same i think and video sometimes slows down.

What to do to make it sound perfectly? Should i use directshow/waveout? install/deinstall some filters (eg. morgan..) change some settings/apply fixes i dont know about? Use some other players?
Any help is welcomed

Please don't write that i should use other sound card or speakers but try to figure out what to do to make it work on this hardware

PS. Could you give me a link to some test ac3 .avi files (and if there's a way of playing vob files thru WMP without installing WinDVD or such then a link to test ac3 .vob files too)

Thanks for reading and any comments
 

Settings for optimal AC3 avi files playback?

Reply #1 –
you can try to rip a vob with smartripper, demux the ac3 stream with tmpeg and play it with powerdvd or  the ac3 plugin for winamp. under linux mplayer and transcode is the way to go.

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