[0.1.3.0] - Volume OSD causes TV video to freeze momentarily

[Taipan]

Area: Media Portal Program
MP Version: 0.1.3.0
Skin: BlueTwo
Windows Version: XP Professional with SP2 and all updates
CPU Type: AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Memory: 512MB
Motherboard Chipset: VIA KM400
Video Card: GigaByte GV-R955128D (ATI Radeon 9550)
Video Card Driver: ATI Radeon v5.7
Video Render Type: VMR9 renderless
Video Codec Type & Version: nVidia Video Decoder
Audio Codec Type & Version: MPEG/AC3/DTS/LPCM Audio Decoder
TV Card: Dvico FusionHDTV DVB-T
TV Card Type: DVB-T
TV Card Driver: Dvico Fusion ver 3.0RC1

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Synopsis:

While watching full-screen TV, changes in the audio volume cause the "Volume Level OSD" to appear in the top-right of the screen, and at the same time, the video image will freeze momentarily for about half a second.

There does not appear to be any option to turn off the "Volume Level OSD"?

Also, none of the other OSD's (TV OSD, Zap OSD, etc) cause the video to momentariy freeze like the "Volume Level OSD" does.

And, when the volume is one level from silence, all 10 brown bars are displayed, indicating the the volume is on mute, but it is still clearly audible. It takes one more "volume-down" to get to the mute level.

[MichaelK]

i can confirm this, and posted it allready as a bug of the pre version.

edit 18.07.2005:

I got an ati9600se. don't know if this problem is related to the ati chipset problem ?

[CHli]

i confirm too :roll:

Area: Media Portal Program
MP Version: 0.1.3.0
Skin: MCE
Windows Version: XP Professional with SP2 with .Net 1.1
CPU Type: Intel P4 1.8 Ghz
Memory: 512MB
Motherboard Chipset: intel 845D
Video Card: Club3d Radeon 7000
Video Card Driver: ATI Catalyst v5.7
Video Render Type: VMR9 renderless
TV Card: Hauppauge PVR-150
TV Card Type: H/W MPEG2 Encoder
TV Card Driver: 2.0.18.22280
Soundcard: SB Audigy
Soundcard Driver: KxProject


Same here, the lagging is so anoying i cant use the volume anymore.

[infinityloop]

Area: Media Portal
MP Version: 0.1.3
Skin: ProjectX
Windows Version: WinXP all service packs/winupdates
CPU Type: AMD Athlon XP 3000+ Barton
Memory: DDR PC3200 1024MB
Motherboard Chipset: Asus A7NX NVIDIA nForce2
Video Card: Leadtek Geforce 6600GT
Video Card Driver: Forceware 71.89
Video Render Type: VMR9
Video Codec Type & Version: InterVideo WinDVD 6
Audio Codec Type & Version: InterVideo WinDVD 6
TV Card: Technisat Skystar2
TV Card Type: DVB-S
TV Card Driver: 4.3.0

i have the same problem

As i mentioned earlier, i have the same problem. I found a temporary workaround though:
Most remote control apps (i use irassistant) allow you to set the system volume of the windows mixer directly, without sending a command to mediaportal, thus not enabling mediaportal's OSD. This works fine for me, so i'll be just waiting for the bug to be fixed.

[Smirnuff]

Has anyone tried this with today's CVS builds?

[Taipan]

I have just tried the CVS 07-25-2005--01-32 and this problem of the video (and sound) freezing for a fraction (about 1/2) of a second when the Volume OSD appears, still exists.

However, none of the other OSDs cause this slight "stutter", so the problem seems to be unique to the Volume OSD display.....

[MichaelK]

for me the context menu in fullscreen tv has this problem too. open the context menu and after a few seconds the sound an video begins to stutter. (since the last days cvs the context menu doesnt appear for me, also in the epg when i press f3 nothing happens)

[mfo]

Originally Posted by MichaelK

for me the context menu in fullscreen tv has this problem too. open the context menu and after a few seconds the sound an video begins to stutter. (since the last days cvs the context menu doesnt appear for me, also in the epg when i press f3 nothing happens)

I can confirm all the above with recent cvs.