Desperate!! - MP keeps freezing on playback every couple of minutes!! :-( (1 Viewer)

[jcee]

Still have to test the MPA/MPV codecs, but here my results so far.

- Installed clean XP Pro SP2
- Installed all post SP2 patches and updates up to Feb 2007
- Installed latest Chipset driver (Nforce)
- Installed various version of Nvidia drivers (91.x, 81.x,85.x)

It turned out that no matter what I was doing any newer Nvidia gfx driver did not run hardware accelerated, I had to turn the slider to the left in control panel => display => troubleshooting, actually disabling the hardware acceleration.

I read at several forums that people had the same problem when upgrading to newer grafix cards. There were roumors that the newer cards might communicate to the board /chipset with newer instructions that the board might not understand.

Anyway, no one had a real solution, going back to release 85.x of Nvidias display drivers fixed the problem, though I might wonder whether the system is now running optimal?!

To recall: No video played at all, eveb MPC did not show a video, even when going to the standard renderer or Overlay or VMR7, it really seems that there is a windows directX problem..

If anyone has more information on that, please let me know.
Upgrading to a different gfx card might help me.. But I am not willing to spend money now.

Oh boy, 4 full days troubleshooting just to get the basics going... I wonder whether Microsoft OS and the PC hardware can be a reliable platform for a PVR?!?!??

 

[idioteque]

"Turn off DxVA ..." This function turns of the hardware acceleration support in the codec.
You find this setting in MP Setup-DVD/DVD Codec

try it

 

[MyPVR]

I followed this steps and thought about one thing: Did the guy tries to use a dual head setup and his TV is configured as 2. Display?

I'am not sure but wasn't the 8x.xx drivers theses ones with that "hardware acceleration hack with overlay rendering for the 2. display"? Remember: Hardware Accelecartion is only possible for the 1. display actually.

If I'am right, please drag a running video playback to the other display and let us know about the result. If I'am wrong just forget my post

 

[jcee]

That is not a bad idea. To be honest: I am not sure. I saw that both displays were enabled.. this was because the SVideo cable was plugged in, but nevertheless the DVI fas primary.
Anyway I will run some double tests with the newer version the next days,

BUT.. I am now back with my original problem: After a while of playback the video freezes, almost like "pause".
I had a look at the logs. VMR9 log did not say anything, but MP log did (see below).
I tried a couple of time toggling pause/play but that did not get it going again.
Seeking back in time did. See log.
What does this mean

2007-05-08 19:33:40.515625 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: repaint->playing 1
2007-05-08 19:35:43.796875 [Info.][MPMain]: SeekAbsolute:seekabs:353,9788765 duration:5519,8431 pos:368,9788765
2007-05-08 19:35:43.921875 [Info.][MPMain]: StreamBufferPlayer: current pos:353,006 dur:5519,8431
2007-05-08 19:47:27.687500 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: playing->repaint 0
2007-05-08 19:47:37.187500 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 19:47:37.187500 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 19:48:09.593750 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 19:48:11.234375 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 19:48:19.218750 [Info.][MPMain]: SeekAbsolute:seekabs:418,1516042 duration:5519,8431 pos:403,1516042
2007-05-08 19:48:19.328125 [Info.][MPMain]: StreamBufferPlayer: current pos:418 dur:5519,8431
2007-05-08 19:48:20.062500 [Info.][19]: planescene: PresentSurface() frame:0 enabled:True allowed:False 1024x576
2007-05-08 19:48:20.078125 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: repaint->playing 1
2007-05-08 19:48:22.203125 [Info.][MPMain]: SeekAbsolute:seekabs:405,1052084 duration:5519,8431 pos:420,1052084
2007-05-08 19:48:22.328125 [Info.][MPMain]: StreamBufferPlayer: current pos:405,002 dur:5519,8431
2007-05-08 19:48:23.140625 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: playing->repaint 5
2007-05-08 19:48:23.187500 [Info.][19]: planescene: PresentSurface() frame:0 enabled:True allowed:False 1024x576
2007-05-08 19:48:23.187500 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: repaint->playing 1
2007-05-08 19:48:32.984375 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 19:48:32.984375 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 19:48:33.671875 [Info.][19]: planescene: PresentSurface() frame:0 enabled:True allowed:False 1024x576
2007-05-08 19:48:33.671875 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: repaint->playing 1
2007-05-08 19:48:36.046875 [Info.][MPMain]: SeekAbsolute:seekabs:402,6254167 duration:5519,8431 pos:417,6254167
2007-05-08 19:48:36.156250 [Info.][MPMain]: StreamBufferPlayer: current pos:402 dur:5519,8431
2007-05-08 19:48:39.093750 [Info.][MPMain]: SeekAbsolute:seekabs:374,7680209 duration:5519,8431 pos:404,7680209
2007-05-08 19:48:39.218750 [Info.][MPMain]: StreamBufferPlayer: current pos:374,008 dur:5519,8431
2007-05-08 19:48:42.109375 [Info.][MPMain]: SeekAbsolute:seekabs:361,2235417 duration:5519,8431 pos:376,2235417
2007-05-08 19:48:42.234375 [Info.][MPMain]: StreamBufferPlayer: current pos:361,006 dur:5519,8431
2007-05-08 19:48:45.578125 [Info.][MPMain]: SeekAbsolute:seekabs:348,5452084 duration:5519,8431 pos:363,5452084
2007-05-08 19:48:45.703125 [Info.][MPMain]: StreamBufferPlayer: current pos:348,008 dur:5519,8431
2007-05-08 19:48:46.828125 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: playing->repaint 1
2007-05-08 19:48:46.859375 [Info.][19]: planescene: PresentSurface() frame:0 enabled:True allowed:False 1024x576
2007-05-08 19:48:46.875000 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: repaint->playing 1
2007-05-08 19:50:36.781250 [Info.][MPMain]: SeekAbsolute:seekabs:398,4875417 duration:5519,8431 pos:458,4875417
2007-05-08 19:50:36.890625 [Info.][MPMain]: StreamBufferPlayer: current pos:398 dur:5519,8431
2007-05-08 20:03:35.046875 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: playing->repaint 0
2007-05-08 20:06:03.578125 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:03.578125 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:15.656250 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:15.656250 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:16.218750 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:16.218750 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:16.578125 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:16.578125 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:16.953125 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:16.953125 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:17.312500 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:17.312500 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:17.718750 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:17.718750 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:18.234375 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:18.234375 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:18.828125 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:18.828125 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:19.156250 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:19.156250 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:19.515625 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:19.515625 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:19.875000 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:19.875000 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:20.234375 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:20.234375 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:20.875000 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:20.875000 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:22.234375 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:22.234375 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:22.921875 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:22.921875 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:24.890625 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:24.890625 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:26.234375 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:26.234375 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:26.562500 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:26.562500 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: SetRepaint()
2007-05-08 20:06:56.625000 [Info.][MPMain]: SeekAbsolute:seekabs:578,5072292 duration:5519,8431 pos:593,5072292
2007-05-08 20:06:56.750000 [Info.][MPMain]: StreamBufferPlayer: current pos:578 dur:5519,8431
2007-05-08 20:06:57.687500 [Info.][19]: planescene: PresentSurface() frame:0 enabled:True allowed:False 1024x576
2007-05-08 20:06:57.703125 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: repaint->playing 1
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At "2007-05-08 20:03:35.046875 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: playing->repaint 0" the freeze happened. At 20:08 I tried get it going again.

At 2007-05-08 19:47:27.687500 there was also a freeze..

 

[McChots]

So I've been running it for a couple of days now with VMR9 exclusive mode and filtering off and my problem has gone away.