Black screen playing Videos (5 Viewers)

[ohdarklord]

my dpi is allready at 96 and its greyed out so i cant change it.

 

[henker32]

my dpi was at 96 too, but my resolution was at 1280x720 so i canged it to 1080i and guess what, black screen issue is gone.

mabye you have to set it to 72dpi for 720p resolutions?

 

[Andreas]

Hmm. It seems that there is more stuff involved in this problem then.
For test I tried to put 150 % in DPI settings and then MP hangs if I try to play music? And of course the black screen on video is back.
If I have 1080P resolution and DPI to normal it works.
And I use MP in fullscreen also.

 

[MageMinds]

Same problem here, some XviD work and some doesn't, stoping the video and restarting it again from where it left worked for 10 times, but now it doesn't work anymore, the only thing that work is changing the zoom to anything other than Normal, it's really anoying, since this remove a part of the subtitle.

I tried several SVN release and thay all do the same, mabye the problem is from the XviD resolution, because the XviD I've done myself (640x???) all work well and those I find on the Internet, usually 608x???

 

[Patric]

Hi fellows,

i suddenly had the same problem for some weeks now.
After trying all things already said here I reset my screen resolution from 800x600 back to 720x576. This at first brought no cure. But - don't ask me why - then I recalibrated my screen with the built in adjustment tool (under settings in MP itself). And now it seems to work as it should.

Perhaps this approach does help someone else.

Grtz
Patric

 

[dukeelam]

then I recalibrated my screen with the built in adjustment tool (under settings in MP itself). And now it seems to work as it should.

Tried this now too and it worked for me, thanks

I have had the upper-left "arrow" 2 or 3 pixels right of the edge, probably after a autoscreen calibration of my screen had put the first pixel column outside of the screen. This have not been a problem before, but now putting the "arrows" at the outer most possible edges the video plays fine in "normal" mode.

Regards
Duke

 

[Sillycrap101]

Same here. Blank screen on Xvids. Tried a bunch of different codecs but none played picture in MediaPortal. Files work fine in WMP, VLC etc..

 

[MageMinds]

Solved my problem, I was using the Codec pack called "Combined Community Codec Pack" to allow me to read x264 files, I have uninstalled it and I installed ffdshow alone only and now everything work as it should.

SOmebody know how to read x264 files other that using Combined Community Codec Pack ???

 

[Sh4nn0w]

ffdshow (I think, don't use it for that myself) or CoreAVC (have to pay for it though). You also need Haali Media Splitter for mkv files.

Personally I've been using coreavc with good results, uses about 50% CPU on my 1.8 Athlon 64 for HD content.

Useful threads [thread=16093]here[/thread] and [thread=11164]here[/thread]

 

[ohdarklord]

i just messed around with the screen calabration

its working now.