iviaudio.ax - is v2.6 the best choice?

Would you mail me v2.6. Thx. (w.j.dijkhof@tue.nl)

ok, I played around a bit and I can perfectly install and uninstall the directshow filters (tried it with iviaudio.ax as well as claud.ax, the PowerDVD AC3 decoder). The installation of the newer versions of iviaudio.ax works fine, but they don't work. The filter shows up in media player, but there is no sound. As soon as I re-install version 2.6 or 2.0, it is working again. I found it a little weird that all three AC3 decoders which are on my system (the two mentioned plus a Ravisent decoder from the ATI DVD player) are only able to decode to Dolby Surround (not 4-speaker surround). Then I read that this is a licensing problem, so the claud.ax works with 4-speaker sound from within PowerDVD, but for external programs, it only offers Dolby Surround downmix. Now, my question is: are there any AC3 decoder filters with which I can enable 4-speaker surround sound? (and if yes, where can I find them? :D)

If you use Iviaudio.ax with "Default Waveout Device", tuo can set 4/5.1 speakers bye

@ theReal: I recently discovered the Moonlight Odio Dekoda () while searching for a new AC3-Decoder. But i only get it to work in WinXP, not in Win98. You have to unregister the iviaudio.ax (mpgaudio.ax remains registered) and then register the Moonlight Odio Dekoda.

@wilbert After exploring the site again, it'll be usefull to download the complete direct show filter package they are offering. Perhaps i'll get it to work in Win98 too.

Thanks for the info, but unfortunately I still have some problems. First problem, when I try the graphedit trick to use Direct Waveout instead of Direct Show, everything works like in Doom's guide until I open the fake avi in Media Player: "properties" is greyed out, so I can't set anything. I can open the avi from within graphedit (in this preview kind of window) but even there I cannot get the 4-speaker option in the Intervideo decoder configuration... I can set "4-speaker" in the BSPlayer options, but on play, when I open the Intervideo Properties, it is set to Dolby Surround again with 4 speaker options greyed out. I installed the Moonlight Odio Decoda (funny name:D) and un-installed all other AC3 codecs (Intervideo, PowerDVD, Ravisent). Now, Mediaplayer plays plain AC3 files perfectly, but the filter doesn't load when I open avi files. On the other hand - when I play plain AC3, the Moonlight decoder doesn't have any options to set, it only shows an info panel... Weird, huh ?? ;) If only PowerDVD was able to keep the avi aspect ratio in full screen, then it was the perfect player. It plays divx/ac3 with 4-speaker surround, and it really sounds good! The picture, however, is only good in 100% size and gets horribly stretched in full screen...

Thanks, I overlooked that download because it was labelled "SpDif output enabler". I should have known from reading the page that for enabling SPDif output, you must use Waveout, but my mind was so full of "regsvr32 /u damnfilters.ax" that I didn't notice ;) Ok, now I can finally enable SPDiF-out with the intervideo AC3 filter. Unfortunately, I have no use for SPDIF-out and the 4-speaker option is still greyed out... :(

@fiorettoe, you said "If you use Iviaudio.ax with "Default Waveout Device", tuo can set 4/5.1 speakers" Which version of iviaudio.ax? I'm using Default Waveout Device now, but I still can't enable 4-speaker surround in v2.6 and v2.0 (3.2 and 4.05 still don't work at all, but also show 4-speaker greyed out).

I use iviaudio.ax of WINDVD 3.1 DTS FULL I have a SbLive! Value 4speakers

It's getting weirder... I downloaded the trial version of WinDVD 4 and the iviaudio.ax file that came with it is binary identical to the 4.05 version I already have (compared with fc /b). But, it works, while the other doesn't. Probably it will stop working after a while due to trial limitations, but no matter what, I still can't enable 4-speaker surround. Maybe it's just not working at all with my Philips Acoustic Edge card....