[Videos] Long pause before playing videos (1 Viewer)

[doclorenzo]

Dankie!


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As Manfred replied, the delay (in this case) is caused by "Mediainfo". Go to
Download MediaInfo from SourceForge.net
and extract 'mediainfo.dll' to your Mediaportal program folder (eg C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\)- replacing the old dll (you might want to backup the original dll (version 0.7.20.0) first..).

Version 0.7.23.0 seems to speed up things with HD material, but might slow it down a bit for other material, I haven't tested it thoroughly.
Best regards
John

EDIT: Well it seems the new dll creates other problems with a program called mtn.exe hogging the cpu completely. The video starts right away but stutters (is unwatchable) for 20-40 seconds..
The solution for this is disabling the autocreation of thumbnails in mediaportal config - general - thumbnails
I have not been able to bypass this even using other mediainfo.dll versions and I cannot find a new version of mtn.exe (the thumbnail generation program).
- John

 

[BlackdogZA]

Thank yo. Will give 1.1 another try.

 

[guitardood]

I was having a similar problem with MKV files especially. I had a version 0.7.8 of mediainfo.dll and copied it over to MediaPortal folder and the Beta is now smokin fast like 1.0.2 was. Hope this helps.


Best,
Guitardood

 

[arion_p]

EDIT: Well it seems the new dll creates other problems with a program called mtn.exe hogging the cpu completely. The video starts right away but stutters (is unwatchable) for 20-40 seconds..
The solution for this is disabling the autocreation of thumbnails in mediaportal config - general - thumbnails
I have not been able to bypass this even using other mediainfo.dll versions and I cannot find a new version of mtn.exe (the thumbnail generation program).
- John

Mediainfo.dll and mtn.exe are unrelated. Mtn is used to create video thumbnails (on demand) and is known to be a problem (it may even cause crashes on some ocasions). This is being worked on. The reason you see the stuttering problem now is that with the old mediainfo being slow, video playback did not start until after mtn had finished.

 

[doclorenzo]

Mediainfo.dll and mtn.exe are unrelated. Mtn is used to create video thumbnails (on demand) and is known to be a problem (it may even cause crashes on some ocasions). This is being worked on. The reason you see the stuttering problem now is that with the old mediainfo being slow, video playback did not start until after mtn had finished.

That makes sense - I wasn't quite sure if mtn.exe used mediainfo somehow.

 

[disaster123]

Same problem for me here. mediainfo is slow cause i've to use a powerlan with only about 30-40mbit/s fast enough for TV / Movies but not fast enough for mediainfo. Mediainfo works fine / fast when file is on the same machine.