[confirm] If some video is played on background, starting another movie fails (1 Viewer)

[rivera]

MediaPortal Version: 1.1.RC1
MediaPortal Skin: Blue-3
Windows Version: WinXP-SP3
CPU Type: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz
HDD: Seagate 500Gb, Seagate 500Gb, WD 1000Gb, WD 1000Gb
Memory: 2x1024 DDR2
Motherboard: ASUS P5K premium
Video Card: ASUS EN9600GT Silent/HTDI 512
Video Card Driver: 196.12
Sound Card: internal
MPEG2 Video Codec: Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder (PDVD 9)
MPEG2 Audio Codec: ffdshow
h.264 Video Codec: MPC decoder
HTPC Case: Silverstone CW03
Power Supply: Corsair VX450W
Remote: Soundgraph
TV: Pioneer PDP-5080XA
TV - HTPC Connection: DVI-HDMI

- I start some movie;
- press ESC - the movie comes to background;
- select and start another movie;
- in some cases (ref. 1st logs) I can see blank screen - then nothing happens and the only
thing I can do is to exit from Portal by pressing Alt-F4;
- in other cases (ref. 2nd logs) the currently played movie stops but the selected movie
does not start;
- once the selected movie started - but it occurred once and I could not reproduce it.

2 logs are attached.

 

[Sebastiii]

Hi Rivera,

I'm on Win7 and i try to reproduce it, and all worked correctly, i didn't have this issue :

I have try with
1- .m2ts
2- .mkv

May be it's an issue on XP ?

Cheers,
Seb.

 

[dhasselqvist]

I have the same issue and also use WinXP. I didn't think it was a big deal so I did not create a bug report but I can confirm the issue is happening here as well.

As a workaround I always press stop button before starting the next video file. MP has never hanged here though, the next video just doesn't start and I have to start it again.

 

[rivera]

Sebastiii
Hi, Seb.
I think that it's a renderer's issue.
On WinXP it is VMR9, on Win7 it is EVR.
May be you will be able to reproduce it if select VMR9 in Configuration.


BTW, it worked properly on 1.1.Beta.


I tried to select EVR in Configuration.
IF start any movie - nothing happens:
- the screen get black - seems that the player is attempting to start playback
- then it returns to BasicHome (no playback)

 

[rivera]

The bug still present in RC2

 

[Sebastiii]

Hi Rivera
I must try this evening, but i have tested in VMR9 and EVR, i have not this bug, but i'm on WIN7.
Seb.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

rivera

Can you run filmerit and see if it shows any errors (link in sig)

 

[rivera]

rivera

Can you run filmerit and see if it shows any errors (link in sig)

I ran it, no errors found...

It happens also if:
- start watching TV
- press ESC, go to Home
- next go to MyVideo
- start movie
- TV stops
- no video
- again start video - now it starts

 

[Kotik]

If you have Dynamic Refresh Rate active disable it and try without it.

See if this helps.

 

[infinite.loop]

Can not confrim that issue using W7 64bit.
"Sadly" the entire team is using W7 now - so I am not sure if anyone will be abel to reproduce this issue.

You do use the latest drivers available for your gfx-card?
Did you test with using MPC-MPV and MPC-MPA as audio and video codecs in both Television and Movies?