1st attempt to play video always fails in MyVideos, works after stop and new play

[zorgy]

Strange thing... took me a while to figure out this....
As far as I've been able to test, this happens on all movies i have (mostly .avi).

- Start media portal (fresh start)
- Go to my videos
- Select a movie
- Movie starts with completely black screen, but the sound is okay
- If pressing ESC etc, the video shows fine in the thumbnail/small window, but not in the normal fullscreen mode
- Stopp the video (pressing esc in fullscreen, and then selecting stop button in the top)
- Select same video again
- Works fine.

I guess this might not be a mediaportal problem.... ?

The last sections in the log should show what i'm talking about, loading coctail.avi and so on....


(Hope I understood the how-to-post-a-new-thread-thinigy)



MediaPortal Version: 0.2.1.0
MediaPortal Skin: Blue Two
Windows Version: XP Pro 2002 sp2
CPU Type: Intel centrino duo T2500 2GHz
HDD: Hitachi 90GB
Memory: 2GB
Motherboard: Dell Latitude D820
Motherboard Chipset: Dell Latitude D820
Motherboard Bios: Dell Latitude D820
Video Card: Dell Latitude D820
Video Card Driver: NVIDA Quadro NVS 110M (GeForce Go 7300(
Sound Card: Sigma Tel Audio
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver: 5.10.0.4823
1. TV Card: none
1. TV Card Type: none
1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec:
MPEG2 Audio Codec:
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case:
Cooling:
Power Supply:
Remote:
TV: Sony Bravida 42"
TV - HTPC Connection: RGB

[simplesy]

I have what I beleive to be a similar problem to yours.....

If I user MediaPortal to play a video (AVI) it works very well but, when I come to stop the video (or it finishes), it returns to MediaPortal with a large percentage of the screen (the play area) blacked-out. I can (from memory) navigate the menus and play another video correctly but, until I close MediaPortal and restart it, the screen is basically unusable.

If I use media player directly no such problem occurs.

I have attempted this with various versions of Media Player and MediaPortal.

Any questions, comments or suggestions??

Colin

[bobrap]

Thought it was me, but, I'm having the same problem as Zorgy.
(Using the latest SVN)

[andrei123]

Same here !

My fix was to exit fullscreen (Alt Enter), then start the movie in windowed mode and maximize again. Then, as long as I do not stop/switch the movie everything shows fine. If I start a new movie the same thing may happen; I say may, since sometimes it works at once (in full screen).

Anybody, any ideas/fixes ?

I'm using mediaportal 0.2.2. The log does not seem to be of any help.

Cheers,
Andrei

[NEI]

I have a similar problem with a colmpletly new XP and MP (0.2.2.0) installation:

1. Play Video -> No sound, No picture, but clock is running.
2. Stop Video
3. Play Video and if asked to continue at position -> Yes -> Video plays fine!

And if i say not to continue, it doesn't work! :-(

*EDIT*
The videos are .ts files...

[MarchEDJ]

Same problem. If I exit and go back fullscreen mode (alt + enter) the video restart and everything goes ok with other videos too until I restart Mediaportal. If I remove the flag "use exclusive directx mode" in MP SetUp this problem disappears but the scenes where the camera moves fast, result as the upper half follows the camera first than the lower half like if the frame is broken in the middle. That's why I need to use exclusive directx mode.
I had this problem in previous versions of MP and I solved it but I don't know how. I managed in MP Setup with general settings, video renderers, codecs etc and with my graphic card settings too and at once everything went ok but until now with the latest version of MP I didn't find the correct combination of settings to solve the problem.
Just to know I had and have this problem with my new PC (AMD X2 with GeForce 6600) but I never had it with my previous PC (Intel P4 with ATI AIW 9500). Maybe It doesn't mean anything but the first time I had this problem I thought about an hardware issue because I gave my previous PC to my brother and another one to a friend of mine (both P4 but one with ATI and one with Nvidia) with a new install of MP for both (it was new about 1 years ago) and I didn't have any problem in the same time I had my first problem with the new one.

[ronilse]

Hi,
Please attach the logs ("installation path"\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\log\) to your post & write your system specs.

Havn't had this problem with MP, but that doesn't mean anyhing

If you use MP 0.2.2.0 also set the log level (MP Setup -> General & on bottom of the page) to debug.

Regards
Roy

[NEI]

Ok, I remade the test and attached my system info and debug log. What i did:

1. Start MP
2. Browse to Folder
3. Play Video -> No sound, No picture, but clock is running.
4. Stop Video
5. Play Video and if asked to continue at position -> Yes -> Video plays fine!

And if i restart and select No for resuming, the video doesn't play again. I have to resume to see the video! And this is for mpg2 .ts files (1080i). I tested it with a divx and everything was ok.

MediaPortal Version: 0.2.2.0
MediaPortal Skin: BlueTwo Wide
Windows Version: XP MCE SP2
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 64 3500+
HDD: IBM 200GB
Memory: 1GB
Motherboard: Shuttle SN95G5
Motherboard Chipset: nFore 3 Ultra
Motherboard Bios: Shuttle
Video Card: Geforce MSI NX7600GS-T2D256Z
Video Card Driver: NVidia Ref. 93.71
Sound Card: Onboard AC.97 compl.
Sound Card AC3: SPDIF
Sound Card Driver: nForce 5.1
1. TV Card: Hauppage PVR-TV500
1. TV Card Type: analog
1. TV Card Driver: newest
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: Nvidia PureVideo
MPEG2 Audio Codec: Nvidia PureVideo
Satelite/CableTV Provider:
HTPC Case: Shutle XPC 95
Cooling: Normal
Power Supply: Shuttle
Remote: MS Remote
TV: Sanyo PLV-Z2
TV - HTPC Connection: DVI

[NEI]

Found out, that i can also start the movie normally and skip 15s. This also does the trick. And i also can confirm, that this only happens with mpeg2 .ts files. Tested with h.264 .ts and everything is ok.

[bobrap]

My problems with videos not playing until I stop and restart was fixed when I went back to the latest stable version. Guess I'll stay away from SVN builds.