Hello SVP Team,
A week ago, I read something about using madVR to greatly improve video quality alongside using SVP for a much better viewing experience. I read a few guides on the subject, and from this point on I've been having nothing but problems with SVP and MPC-HC (mostly MPC, it seems).
The first thing I did was change the DirectShow video renderer to madVR in MPC, which broke SVP (it didn't even start working again when I switched the video renderer back to the custom presenter). This was fixed by using the SVP maintenance tool to completely uninstall/reinstall SVP from scratch, this time selecting madVR during the installation.
Okay, so now everything was seemingly working fine again. I go through the settings in madVR and configure everything the way I want it, and get it all customized for my specific system.
A few days go by, and one night I feel like testing Steam In-Home Streaming, but this means that I'm going to want my headset with me while I use my laptop to stream games from my desktop (which is the computer I'm having problems with).
The problem was, my headset is a Razer Kraken 7.1 Chroma; a USB headset that essentially acts as the computer's sound card while it's plugged in. In the past, I've used a standard setup where you can just unplug your headset from the 3.5mm jack, do what you need to do, and plug them back in later, which is fine because your actual sound card is never removed from the system.
To avoid making this post any longer than it has to be, I'll just say that since getting this headset, I have very quickly learned that it is VERY bad to unplug your sound device, for any reason. Simply replugging this headset will have most applications requiring a restart in order to properly play audio.
But still, the only way I was getting any use out of my desktop that night was through remoting into it. So, I closed all of my applications and basically just left my system on the desktop. I set my laptop up and had a fun night streaming games from my desktop.
The next morning, I got up and plugged my headset back into my computer, made sure it's set as the default audio device, and everything seems to be surprisingly working fine again. Until I try to watch a video.
I spent most of that day diagnosing and trying to fix a constant onslaught of problems, most of which I don't even remember because I was just so frustrated. I do remember MPC playing two different audio tracks (Japanese and English audio) at the same time in one show that I used to test if SVP is working, and after 6-8 hours of rage-induced Googling (which solved nothing), I found out that going into Options > External Filters and unchecking the ReClock Audio Renderer fixed the problem.
And everything was lovely once again. I watched a few episodes of a show just fine, until about a day or two later, when I tried to resume watching.
I opened the next episode, and MPC starts playing audio in the left speaker of my headset, but not the right speaker. I tested the same episode in VLC and SMPlayer, and the audio works just fine in both of those video players, playing audio in both speakers.
I also tried a bunch of other videos that I had on my computer, and they all had the same problem with audio weirdly playing in only the left speaker.
I immediately went and reinstalled SVP, resetting the configuration/settings for SVP and MPC-HC in the process. This got things working again, and I watched maybe four more episodes without any issues that day. The next day, the problem suddenly came back, and no amount of reinstalling has fixed the issue thus far.
I've gone through ALL of the settings I could find related to audio, and I can't seem to find anything that fixes the problem. I've fiddled with enabling custom mixing, enabled/disabled the built-in audio switcher, played with custom channel mapping, ticked/unticked boxes in the LAV Audio Renderer, looked around in the LAV Splitter...
I've even gone into Razer Synapse and made SURE that MPC-HC is set to play sound in 7.1 format. I've tried switching it to Stereo 2.0, and I've tried rolling back the driver for my headset... Nothing I've found will work.
I think I should also be specific that it doesn't sound like the audio is playing normally in the left speaker. Listening to the left speaker alone, the audio sounds quieter/distant in MPC, compared to VLC or SMPlayer. Maybe the virtual 7.1 audio space is working, but only part of the audio is being played in the left speaker? I don't know. Even just listening to the audio in the left speaker alone, it just sounds... Wrong.
I know that the right speaker IS working, because audio plays fine in every other application, and while using MPC to play videos, I can hear a static hissing in the right speaker, which is normally what you hear in this headset when the system volume is above 50% or the headset is playing audio.
I know this is the SVP forum, and you guys specifically manage the SVP project, which relates to video, but I was hoping that maybe there would be some knowledgeable people here who know a lot about messing around with custom audio/video filters/renderers/etc, and maybe they've had an issue like this before. On top of that, all of this software was installed through the SVP installer, so even though this is an audio problem, technically, it still relates to SVP.
Alright, sorry for the long post, it's late and I'm just fed up with the constant stream of problems I've been having. I just wanted to get this posted. I'll edit this with more information if/as needed, and before I go, my system specs:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1045T (3.9GHz)
RAM: 8GB DDR3 (4x 2GB sticks)
GPU1: GeForce GTX 950 (1478MHz Core)
GPU2: GT 640 (1178MHz Core)
Audio: Razer Kraken 7.1 Chroma