DVD player lockups (1 Viewer)

[tim50stroud]

Mediacentre running XP, Mediaportal 1.1.2. All playbacks of video from the hard drives is fine, but using the SATA DVD player it randomly freezes during playback needing a reboot.
Hard drives are SATA, tried swapping headers round but no change
Swapped DVD drive
Tried DVD on a USB/SATA interface
Windows updated ok. (SP3)
Any thoughts?

 

[mbuzina]

Is there anything in your logs when this happens? Do the windows system logs show something?

Do you have another program that could periodically access the DVD?

 

[tim50stroud]

Its one of those intermittant faults, hard to tie down. The PC is only used as a mediacentre, and I prefer Mediaportal as the playback; but you're right, I have another I could try. I wasn't sure what drivers mediaportal used to access a DVD, so assumed it was within Mediaportal....

Where are the crash logs maintained in windows? Thats another useful track...

Running Mediaportal this evening, playing a DVD, locks up and blue screen in 0.5 hr.
Switch to my old media software Zoom from http://www.inmatrix.com/ and no problem, playing for 3 hr continuous.

So, how do i pursuade mediaportal to use the same codec/ player as Zoom??

My knowledge of codecs and dvd players is limited, but seems the problem is here.

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Seems to be a matter of changing codec to FFDshow from the one mediaportal decided to pick.

Have played 3 videos on the trot, no fault found.