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Hi,
I have been pulling my hair out on this one and have come here after trying all the options I can think of.
Have been a longtime user of PSMS on WinXP, which I have been very happy with, using all the features of it with multiple devices (audio and video).

Have hit a bit of a wall with a new machine been setting up.. It uses WHS 2011, which is based on Server 2008 RC2, which I believe shares a base with Windows 7. x64 Machine, 8GB RAM. Started with Java 64bit, now running Java 32bit as part of the investigation, in case the 64bit was causing the issues.

Have been through multiple versions of PSMS and when saw you were splitting UMS from it, tried UMS v1.0 and now v1.0.1.. Have both PSMS and UMS co-existing on the box and am getting the same issue with both, put both on for testing, on different ports.

Seems normal playing and also transcoding with just Mencoder works. Although this has always caused me issues with audio being out of sync and also delays/stutters on the old box, seems the same here. Both are wired ethernet 100/full.
Hence on my old WinXP box, tended to use Transcoding with AvisSynth/MEncoder and AviSynth/FFmpeg a fair bit. Most files played are AVI, fair few AVI with AC3 audio. That worked well for me, between the various transcoding options could always find one that would play a file acceptably. Most of the material I play is SD, some 720 no 1080.

Came to install the new box and both the transcoding options involving AviSynth return 'The data corrupted.' when attempting to play. Have tried numerous files and all give the same error, hence am thinking it is something to do with the avisynth setup or a combination of things.

Have been through AviSynth 2.57, 2.58, Set's 2.6 MT, re-installing numerous times.
Have tried both CCCP (both with and without HP-MPC bits) and K-Lite codec Packs.. both installed before AviSynth and after.
Running the 'Version.avs' file in WMP on the WHS machine does return the version in WMP, so I am assuming it is installed ok.

Have also tried tweaking the priority/setting of codecs using 'Win7DSFilterTweaker' - in case that had any effect.

Have also tried various versions of 'vsfilter.dll' in the avisynth plugin folder, together with registering the dll via the command line.

Have verified that all the files I have issues with play fine on my WinXP box using the same settings and transcode options.

Have now got to the point where I am just re-running different options that I have tried before and hence am running out of things to try.. Have spent quite a bit of time reading forum posts from various boards and none seem to have helped, they just point to things I have tried that have not worked.

Am getting the feeling I am missing something, not sure what it is though.

I attach a debug.log file from UMS and also an LOG detailing what I was doing at various timestamps, to give some clues.

Any help/assistance anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Hi

I usually find this is an issue with the audio

Have you tired the Shark007 codecs (for Vista) with the LAV 0.50.5 codec release http://shark007.net/vistacodecpackage.html
Alternatively, since you are playing just 'avi' files then try the LAV 0.50.5 on its own - see http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156191

In LAV splitter, make sure 'avi' is selected.
In LAV audio set all the audio bit settings - 8, 16, 32, floating point

I use WHS v1 and have recently upgraded to Avisynth 2.6 MT (version 2012.05.16) (see http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=148782) with great success.

Triplefun wrote:Hi

I usually find this is an issue with the audio

Have you tired the Shark007 codecs (for Vista) with the LAV 0.50.5 codec release http://shark007.net/vistacodecpackage.html
Alternatively, since you are playing just 'avi' files then try the LAV 0.50.5 on its own - see http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156191

In LAV splitter, make sure 'avi' is selected.
In LAV audio set all the audio bit settings - 8, 16, 32, floating point

I use WHS v1 and have recently upgraded to Avisynth 2.6 MT (version 2012.05.16) (see http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=148782) with great success.

Hi Triplefun,
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post.

Decided to try your suggestion, uninstalled the existing packages and went to Install the Shark codec package. The Vista package refused to install, pointed me towards the Windows7 one. Which I had wondered about when you said Vista.
The Windows7 installed fine - found here : http://shark007.net/win7codecs.html

Set the LAV settings as you specified and also set LAV splitter, under AVI playback splitter selection.

The news is very good, it is playing with some files now...

Getting the occasional 'Data corrupted' now, with odd files, with one or the other of MEncoder/FFmpeg, sometimes with both.

Certainly not getting the total failure was before, will fiddle with the settings a for the rest. It is at least playing files, so the end to end process is working, settings seems to be the remaining items. Will move the PS3 back down to by TV, away from PC and hook it up to AMP etc and have a play with some files while RDC'ing into PC.

Thank you very much for your assistance and pointers. Much appreciated
Maybee I can start growing back the hair I had pulled out now.

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As you mentioned, have been using 2.6MT on the XP box and that seems to be going well, have thrown it on this one also now to test it out. Hopefully when get this settled can retire the XP machine from its media serving duties.