Starting a Video MP minimizes to systray.

[Ogryn]

I'm trying to play a video any video and when I click to start the video MP minimizes to the system tray and my desktop comes up but no video plays. If I maximize MP and try and start the same video it plays just fine with no problems at all. If I go to start a new video after that has happened I have to repeat the whole process again. This is pretty frustrating I just upgraded to the newest verision of MP and did all my windows updates as required. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[tourettes]

If you are using divx codec, as a workaround disable the systray utility that it has. 0001543: MediaPortal gets minimized to tray by pop up windows of external applications - MediaPortal Bugtracker

[Ogryn]

Thanks for the quick reply but it still doesn't work. No popups coming up there is basically nothing else running besides MP. I did have MP 0.2.2 running before and it worked fine... I've gone through taskmanager and closed all non-essential programs and still it continues to minimize to the system tray. I think its really strange that after its minimized and I maximize it again I can play any video; the same one I tried to play or any other but as soon as I stop that video and try again it will minimize again and I have to maximize to start another. Any other suggestions?

[FlipGer]

Hi,

try turning "Excliseve DirectX Mode to avoid tearing" off (on). This can be found in the VMR9 settings (or something like that). "MP always on top", might also help. It simply seems to be a bug (unfortunately)..

Flip.

[Simian60]

Originally Posted by Ogryn

I'm trying to play a video any video and when I click to start the video MP minimizes to the system tray and my desktop comes up but no video plays. If I maximize MP and try and start the same video it plays just fine with no problems at all. If I go to start a new video after that has happened I have to repeat the whole process again. This is pretty frustrating I just upgraded to the newest verision of MP and did all my windows updates as required. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I had the same problem. I noticed that all of the files that caused this to happen were listed as having "Video Compression: FFDS" in the properties under wXP. Uninstalling FFDShow (or whatever it's called) fixed the problem. I assume because a different codec was being used to play the files (which were DivX in AVI container).

Edit:
One reboot later, and the problem is back, but now only occurs on first play of any video, subsequent plays of any file work.

I am now getting debug output:

2008-09-25 00:14:08.312500 [Debug][7]: PlaneScene: crop T, B : 0, 0
2008-09-25 00:14:08.312500 [Debug][7]: PlaneScene: crop L, R : 0, 0
2008-09-25 00:14:08.312500 [Info.][7]: PlaneScene: video WxH : 624x464
2008-09-25 00:14:08.312500 [Debug][7]: PlaneScene: video AR : 624:464
2008-09-25 00:14:08.312500 [Info.][7]: PlaneScene: screen WxH : 1819x1023
2008-09-25 00:14:08.312500 [Debug][7]: PlaneScene: AR type : Normal
2008-09-25 00:14:08.312500 [Debug][7]: PlaneScene: PixelRatio : 1
2008-09-25 00:14:08.312500 [Debug][7]: PlaneScene: src : (0,0)-(624,464)
2008-09-25 00:14:08.312500 [Debug][7]: PlaneScene: dst : (271,27)-(1647,1050)
2008-09-25 00:14:08.328125 [Warn.][7]: Main: ***** OnDeviceLost *****
2008-09-25 00:14:08.328125 [Warn.][7]: Planescene.InternalPresentSurface caught DeviceLostException in InternalPresentSurface
2008-09-25 00:14:08.359375 [Debug][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: Playing -> Repainting, Frames 54

and:

2008-09-25 00:14:09.375000 [Info.][MPMain]: Main: Received DX exclusive mode switch message. Fullscreen && maximized == False
2008-09-25 00:14:09.375000 [Debug][MPMain]: Main: Goto windowed mode: False
2008-09-25 00:14:09.375000 [Debug][MPMain]: D3D: Switch to windowed mode - Playing media: False
2008-09-25 00:14:09.375000 [Warn.][MPMain]: D3D: Switch to windowed mode failed - Error in the application.
-2005530520 (D3DERR_DEVICELOST)
at Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device.Reset(PresentPar ameters[] presentationParameters)
at MediaPortal.D3DApp.SwitchFullScreenOrWindowed(Bool ean bWindowed)
2008-09-25 00:14:09.375000 [Info.][MPMain]: D3D: BuildPresentParamsFromSettings using 60Hz as RefreshRate
2008-09-25 00:14:09.390625 [Info.][MPMain]: fonts.SetDevice()
2008-09-25 00:14:09.390625 [Debug][MPMain]: d3dapp: RecoverDevice called
2008-09-25 00:14:09.390625 [Debug][MPMain]: Windowmanager: Goto previous window
2008-09-25 00:14:09.390625 [Debug][MPMain]: Window: MediaPortal.GUI.Video.GUIVideoFullscreen deinit

[bobolito]

Not sure if this was solved, but my solution to this problem was to set MP to "Keep MediaPortal Always on Top". This option is in the General section of the MP configuration.