[fixed] Mediainfo.dll broken (for me) above ver 0.7.30 (4 Viewers)

[Andrew H]

/.start./ UPDATE BY INFINITYLOOP 2010-06-22

Please test the binary found in this :ost:: and report back if it fixes the issue.
Please also test if new issues are caused by that binary.

Please hurry, RC5 release is waiting for this feedback. ​

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I'm a long time MediaPortal user and have been updating along with you all to MP 1.1.0.0 RC4 (June 1, 2010) which uses Mediainfo.dll ver 0.7.31 As best I could check I believe RC3 (May 19, 2010) also used 0.7.31 up from 0.7.27 distributed in RC2. My timeline may be a bit off, but I have found that there are TV shows I'd recorded on my system that I can't playback on RC4 because of the updated Mediainfo.dll version. There was something in it that is different than 0.7.30 which is the latest version to play these files - I'll call them 'suspect' only because newer versions cause an error in my mediaportal.log as well as the error.log

I had been posting over on this Locking up on playing episode thread because his issue sounded like mine. That poster seems to be related to the Moving Pictures plug-in and disabling the "automatically acquire mediainfo details in movies" feature while mine is clearly linked to the version number of mediainfo.dll

I'm trying to attach the 0.7.33 zip which includes the history.txt file. Something changed after 0.7.30 which has broken MediaPortal's ability to call the mediainfo.dll (from My Videos, My Recorded-TV and the My-TVSeries) to obtain the data it needs to play the file... when it doesn't get that data it assumes it's a Radio file and plays the audio!

I also see others having issue with the latest mediainfo and exchanging the version 0.7.27 they had from MP 1.1.0.0 RC2

I'm not sure this forum can get mediainfo fixed, but we might should revert back to an earlier version because it's causing an ERROR inside MP. And, yes, I'll recreate this and attach logs soon... just wanted to get this posted in the RC3 & RC4 section.

 

[x4mer]

I am also getting TV recordings that won't play back - audio only.

Last night I found that they would work in RTSP mode, just not the UNC mode I normally use for comskip. I figured there was no point in submitting a bug report, since the debug options say they're unsupported.

However, having read your post I just did a check. When in UNC mode, I get a mediainfo.dll error in the error log, claiming the dll isn't found (it is in the MP dir though - 0.7.31). I also get an entry in the main log saying the recording is a radio recording. So it seems it's all just a mediainfo problem, like you mentioned.

Debug mode logs attached.

 

[kkozma]

I was having the same problem. Only for me, pretty much any version of mediainfo.dll other than the one that installed with rc4 (7.32 for me) works just fine including the version 7.32 one I got from the install of mediainfo 7.32.

Out of curiosity, which version of windows are you guys running? 32 bit or 64 bit?

 

[jameson_uk]

Can you confirm a couple of things
(a) whether you have replaced the MediaInfo.dll (in MP program directory; c:\program files\team-mediaportal\mediaportal on XP ) file?
(b) what version of MediaInfo.dll is sat in that directory now
(c) hwo you are trying to playback the file. Is this simply by going to the standard MP recorded TV screen and selecting a recording (ie. you are not using 4TR or trying to playback via MyVideos, Moving Pictures etc)

 

[Andrew H]

Speaking for myself, as My System states I'm running 32-bit Win-7 and in my case when I speak of Mediainfo.dll I am downloading the i386 version from theSourceforge site because their main download page provides only the latest version. I was directed to install the latest version on thisTV Series crashes MP and Config TV-Series thread which didn't help me at all!

Specifically, I'm running Win-7 32-bit and found the mediainfo.dll in C:\program files\team-mediaportal\mediaportal (writing from memory but it's the main program folder where I'd found it. What I've done to test this is renamed alternate versions in the main MP directory with a suffix (i.e. mediainfo733.dll, mediainfo732.dll, mediainfo727.dll, etc.) leaving the active file as mediainfo.dll which seems weird because as the poster above's log indicates he'd gotten the same

[ERROR][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: unable to call external DLL - mediainfo (make sure 'MediaInfo.dll' is located in MP root dir.) Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.

as I'd gotten... here's additional detail about from where I'd been explaining my error.

By renaming the mediainfo.dll files I was able to properly view these 'suspect' files up to ver 0.7.30 and using any later version would cause the error, so I can't run the i386 version for 0.7.31, 0.7.32 or the current 0.7.33 without erroring out when I try to play these certain files.

Here's another post where I was explaining the error would occur whether I asked to play the file from inside My Recorded-TV, My Videos, or TV-Series. In each case the final entry in my mediaportal.log is always:

TvRecorded Play:T:\AverMedia\Tuner_1\60 Minutes - 2010-05-23.ts - using rtsp mode:False

I may have been having an influence from TV-Series at the time of that post because MP was hanging where as it now defaults to a radio format and plays the file's audio. Sorry if this seems a bit convoluted but it's tough separating one issue from another sometimes!

I'm just trying the StreamedMP (and TV-Series) so I wasn't sure if it was an issue with the skin, the TV-Series plug-in, or what. I was not using MovingPictures eventhough others were saying they'd found a fix by disabling a function using mediainfo in it. I do not use 4TR either.

I appreciate the attention on this issue... for now I'm planning to keep 0.7.30 available and hope the MP team can find 'working' versions for the RC5 update!

 

[elliottmc]

I appreciate the attention on this issue... for now I'm planning to keep 0.7.30 available and hope the MP team can find 'working' versions for the RC5 update!

I have RC4 with the latest movingpictures and mytvseries. I have mediainfo.dll 0.7.31.0 installed, although I am not sure which of the above provided it. However, for me, everything is working perfectly.

Is it possible that you do not have the latest versions of the plugins, and that you have an extra mediainfo.dll in one of the plugin folders?

Mark

 

[Andrew H]

Thanks for the interest Mark and I've checked by doing a SEARCH finding only the one. As far as the latest plug-ins I'd loaded the latest StreamedMP. Also this is not an 'across the board' issue for all files. Instead it's only about 7-10 files I'd found that mediainfo has issue with. I can use the GUI (version of mediainfo) to test them and it gets the error directly (as a popup), or open MP and get the ERROR in the log while it plays as a radio file. And, these are currently recorded files from my system! I've not been able to correlate TV station, tuner, HDD, or any commonality as yet - mediainfo is the only indication so far! BTW, I can play these 'suspect' files in WMP and/or MPC-HC without issue... just can't get past MP calling mediainfo and not getting the data back to open the gplayer correctly.

 

[jameson_uk]

Apologies if this is answered in the other threads but just wanted to to get a clear picture of what is going on

• With 0.7.30 the files play correctly inside MP?
• You get the same error inside MediaInfo program itself after version 0.7.31?
• This is single seat with recrordings stored on the same machine you are playing them on?
• Are you able to check the audio and video codecs in these files?
• Can you see if there are multiple audio streams there?
• Can you see if there are subtitles?

Finally can you try renaming one of the problematic files from TS to MKV and play it through video plugin with 0.7.31 DLL in place?

 

[elliottmc]

Thanks for the interest Mark and I've checked by doing a SEARCH finding only the one. As far as the latest plug-ins I'd loaded the latest StreamedMP. Also this is not an 'across the board' issue for all files. Instead it's only about 7-10 files I'd found that mediainfo has issue with. I can use the GUI (version of mediainfo) to test them and it gets the error directly (as a popup), or open MP and get the ERROR in the log while it plays as a radio file. And, these are currently recorded files from my system! I've not been able to correlate TV station, tuner, HDD, or any commonality as yet - mediainfo is the only indication so far! BTW, I can play these 'suspect' files in WMP and/or MPC-HC without issue... just can't get past MP calling mediainfo and not getting the data back to open the gplayer correctly.

It seems as though for some reason, your system is producing files that are not liked by mediainfo. I guess you could report it to the developers of mediainfo, so that they can fix it.

Do you have (or are you able to get) a small recording that reproduces the problem?

Mark

 

[Andrew H]

Thanks again, and YES, 0.7.30 plays correctly inside MP; I get an error stating it can't go on from inside or the GUI, they don't have the same language so I'd posted them here; single seat same machine; can check stream formats using 0.7.30 or older; seems to be a multitude of variations - all are MPEG (this is from USA ATSC broadcast) and all have AC3 audio but some have 1, 2 or 3 text streams - SEE ATTACHMENT; I'm not interested in subtitles so I don't know whether a test stream is a subtitle or not.

Onto your test - I placed 0.7.31 into the main folder, renamed a bad file from .ts to .mkv and opened it under My Videos - I saw Haali open in the System Tray and it played!