MediaPortal 1.0.1 Release (1 Viewer)

[Swede]

I've got the problem with no video playing for some movies. I tracked it down to movies that GSpot report as codec avc1 ("H.264/MPEG-4 AVC").

Strangely, GSpot says "Codec Status Undetermined" for the video and audio

I'm using an NVidia 8600 card on a virgin Vista 32-bit system and default Zoom Player installation. Zoom Player installs FFDSHOW and a small set of other bits and I leave them all at defaults. I don't use codec packs including the one made by MP forum users.

Everything worked fine in MP 1.0.0. I've never installed any SVN versions of anything.

The video problem happens in EVR or VMR9 mode. I'm not sure what else to check/change.

Other avi files play ok (sound, vision).

The movie does not play in WMPlayer 11.

The attached log files shows an attempt to play InkHeart, encoded in avc1, with a resolution of 1280x528.

The movie plays fine within Zoom Player. Perhaps MediaPlayer's video player doesn't have something loaded that it needs. There's too many places in the config util to muck around with this so I don't want to go changing anything. It worked fine in MP 1.0.0 and the only other thing I did was install PureAudio and the latest StreamedMP skin. I haven't changed anything else.

You need Haali media splitter. I set mine with no checkboxes checked. That way it plays vc-1 files too

 

[dir]

Thanks, Swede. Will check. I thought Haali media splitter was for handling audio, not video.

And I thought I already have it installed, but perhaps it's become disabled or somethin!

And I can watch these same movies in Zoom Player which is invoking Haali.

Just to be sure, I'm updating to the latest Haali splitter.

There's a few options which I'll leave at defaults:
Disable MPC internal Matroska splitter
Disable Gabest;s Matroska spllitter
Enable MP4 support
Enable OGG/OGM support
Enable MPEG-TS support

Update: Haali's definitely installed and is invoked when using Zoom Player.

 

[Swede]

Is MP set to use ffdshow as H264 decoder? Try to reinstall ffdshow or Core AVC decoder

 

[dir]

Yeah, I tried several things:
- confirmed that ffdshow is set to use H264 (remember, Zoom Player uses ffdshow and plays mp4 movies fine. And the Haali icon shows up while playing them)
- uninstalled ffdshow and installed SAF. Configured it exactly as per forum guidelines. Re-installed Haali as well and confirmed it's set to play avi files.

Any attempt to play mp4 movies within MP results in no video, only audio. There's no Haali icon appearing, either, which tells me that the graph being created isn't using ffdshow.

- tried configuring MPC Video Decoder for h264 and told MP to use it. Didn't make any difference.

Somehow, MediaPortal is ignoring system-configured graphs and doing it's own thing.

 

[Swede]

Well, I don't know, but for me, it works better with Haali set with no checkboxes set when installing. What happens if you play the file in Graphedit?

Also:
check that MP4 extention is set in MP
check that no external player plugins are set to play MP4

Compare this with your log:
2009-04-15 09:58:27.531250 [Info.][MPMain]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: inspecting media : \\Tv\c\Barnfilmer\Wall-E Burn-E bluray.mp4
2009-04-15 09:58:27.531250 [Info.][MPMain]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: FrameRate : 23,976
2009-04-15 09:58:27.531250 [Info.][MPMain]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: VideoCodec : v_mpeg4/iso/avc
2009-04-15 09:58:27.531250 [Info.][MPMain]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: IsH264: True
2009-04-15 09:58:27.531250 [Info.][MPMain]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: Scan type : progressive
2009-04-15 09:58:27.531250 [Info.][MPMain]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: IsInterlaced: False
2009-04-15 09:58:27.531250 [Info.][MPMain]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: Width : 1280
2009-04-15 09:58:27.546875 [Info.][MPMain]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: Height : 528
2009-04-15 09:58:27.546875 [Info.][MPMain]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: Audiochannels : 0
2009-04-15 09:58:27.546875 [Info.][MPMain]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: Audiorate : 0
2009-04-15 09:58:27.546875 [Info.][MPMain]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: AspectRatio : 2.424
2009-04-15 09:58:27.546875 [Info.][MPMain]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: AudioCodec : ac3
2009-04-15 09:58:27.546875 [Info.][MPMain]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: IsAC3 : True
2009-04-15 09:58:27.546875 [Debug][MPMain]: g_Player.Play(\\Tv\c\Barnfilmer\Wall-E Burn-E bluray.mp4)
2009-04-15 09:58:27.546875 [Info.][MPMain]: RefreshRateChanger.AdaptRefreshRate: 'auto refreshrate changer' disabled
2009-04-15 09:58:27.546875 [Debug][MPMain]: PlayerFactory: Successfully created player instance for file - \\Tv\c\Barnfilmer\Wall-E Burn-E bluray.mp4
2009-04-15 09:58:27.546875 [Info.][MPMain]: VideoPlayerlay \\Tv\c\Barnfilmer\Wall-E Burn-E bluray.mp4
2009-04-15 09:58:27.625000 [Info.][MPMain]: VideoPlayerVMR9: Enabling DX9 exclusive mode
2009-04-15 09:58:27.625000 [Debug][MPMain]: Main: Received DX exclusive mode switch message. Fullscreen && maximized == True
2009-04-15 09:58:27.625000 [Debug][MPMain]: Main: Goto fullscreen: True
2009-04-15 09:58:27.625000 [Info.][MPMain]: fonts.SetDevice()
2009-04-15 09:58:27.625000 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9: added EVR Renderer to graph
2009-04-15 09:58:27.625000 [Debug][MPMain]: VMR9: Now active
2009-04-15 09:58:27.625000 [Debug][MPMain]: VMR9: Renderer successfully added
2009-04-15 09:58:27.671875 [Info.][MPMain]: added filter:CoreAVC Video Decoder to graph
2009-04-15 09:58:27.671875 [Info.][MPMain]: added filter:ffdshow Audio Decoder to graph
2009-04-15 09:58:27.687500 [Info.][MPMain]: added filter:ffdshow Audio Decoder to graph
2009-04-15 09:58:27.687500 [Info.][MPMain]: DirectShowUtils: First try to insert new audio renderer Default DirectSound Device
2009-04-15 09:58:27.687500 [Info.][MPMain]: DirectShowUtils: Found audio renderer
2009-04-15 09:58:27.687500 [Debug][MPMain]: DirectShowUtils: added filterefault DirectSound Device to graph
2009-04-15 09:58:28.000000 [Debug][MPMain]: PlaneScene: PresentImage() dispose surfaces
2009-04-15 09:58:28.390625 [Info.][MPMain]: VideoPlayerVMR9: no vob sub filter in the current graph
2009-04-15 09:58:28.390625 [Info.][MPMain]: VideoPlayerVMR9: subtitles are not enabled
2009-04-15 09:58:28.421875 [Info.][MPMain]: VideoPlayeruration:455,1217083
2009-04-15 09:58:28.593750 [Debug][MPMain]: VideoPlayer: FoundStreams: Type=Video; Name=V: [English], Filter=\\Tv\c\Barnfilmer\Wall-E Burn-E bluray.mp4, Id=0, PDWGroup=0
2009-04-15 09:58:28.593750 [Debug][MPMain]: VideoPlayer: FoundStreams: Type=Audio; Name=A: [English], Filter=\\Tv\c\Barnfilmer\Wall-E Burn-E bluray.mp4, Id=1, PDWGroup=1
2009-04-15 09:58:28.593750 [Debug][MPMain]: VideoPlayer: FoundStreams: Type=Subtitle_hidden; Name=No subtitles, Filter=\\Tv\c\Barnfilmer\Wall-E Burn-E bluray.mp4, Id=2, PDWGroup=2
2009-04-15 09:58:28.640625 [Info.][26]: planesceneresentImage() frame:0 enabled:False allowed:True
2009-04-15 09:58:28.828125 [Info.][MPMain]: g_Player.OnStarted() \\Tv\c\Barnfilmer\Wall-E Burn-E bluray.mp4 media:Video
2009-04-15 09:58:28.828125 [Debug][MPMain]: GUITVCropManager.g_Player_PlackBackStarted: media: Video tv:False ts:False
2009-04-15 09:58:34.203125 [Debug][MPMain]: g_Player: ShowFullScreenWindow
2009-04-15 09:58:34.218750 [Info.][MPMain]: g_Player: ShowFullScreenWindow switching to fullscreen video
2009-04-15 09:58:34.265625 [Debug][MPMain]: Window: MediaPortal.GUI.Video.GUIVideoFiles deinit
2009-04-15 09:58:34.296875 [Debug][MPMain]: TextureManager: Dispose:\\Tv\c\Barnfilmer\Wall-E Burn-E bluray.jpg Frames:1 Total:197 Mem left:143654
2009-04-15 09:58:34.312500 [Debug][MPMain]: TextureManager: CleanupThumbs()
2009-04-15 09:58:34.609375 [Debug][MPMain]: Window: MediaPortal.GUI.Video.GUIVideoFullscreen init
2009-04-15 09:58:34.625000 [Debug][26]: PlaneScene: crop T, B : 0, 0
2009-04-15 09:58:34.625000 [Debug][26]: PlaneScene: crop L, R : 0, 0
2009-04-15 09:58:34.625000 [Info.][26]: PlaneScene: video WxH : 1280x528
2009-04-15 09:58:34.625000 [Debug][26]: PlaneScene: video AR : 80:33
2009-04-15 09:58:34.625000 [Info.][26]: PlaneScene: screen WxH : 1280x1024
2009-04-15 09:58:34.625000 [Debug][26]: PlaneScene: AR type : LetterBox43
2009-04-15 09:58:34.625000 [Debug][26]: PlaneScene: PixelRatio : 1
2009-04-15 09:58:34.625000 [Debug][26]: PlaneScene: src : (0,0)-(1280,528)
2009-04-15 09:58:34.625000 [Debug][26]: PlaneScene: dst : (0,336)-(1280,688)
2009-04-15 09:58:34.671875 [Debug][MPMain]: Successfully set rate to 1
2009-04-15 09:58:34.687500 [Info.][MPMain]: VideoPlayeretRate to:10000
2009-04-15 09:58:34.687500 [Debug][MPMain]: VMR9: SetRepaint()
2009-04-15 09:58:34.687500 [Debug][MPMain]: VMR9: SetRepaint()

 

[dir]

Well I'll be hornswoggled and tongue-tied. I compared my log with yours and found that mine has a few extra lines in it that load all the external players. These correspond to the External Plugins section of MP's configuration like Foobar, itunes, winamp, and PureAudio.

I disabled PureAudio and sure enough, the movie(s) play.

So somehow PureAudio is screwing up the video. Go figure. A whole new thing to investigate, but at least I can play everything again!


(Fast forward 30 minutes):
Ok, I compared logs between having PureAudio enabled and having it disabled. Here's the key line that makes all the difference:

2009-04-15 22:38:50.046476 [Debug][MPMain]: PureAudio: SupportsFile("\\MOFO\Media\Movies\Inkheart\Inkheart.mp4"): Supported


I take it this means that PureAudio is saying that it handles .mp4 files so MP doesn't then try to invoke a (nother) video player. Of course, PureAudio is right - it handles mp4 AUDIO files, but this is a video file. Clearly a problem with the fact that ".mp4" is used for both audio and video.

This can't be a new bug - I'll check on the PureAudio forum to find the answer.

 

[infinite.loop]

Guys, please create your own support/bugreport threads for issues you encounter.
This thread is not the right place.

Regarding the critical issues in 1.0.1, expect a news update on our homepage soon.

 

[jof]

Looks like 1.0.2 is coming earlier as expected

 

[jsimmons]

Is it impossible to install MP 1.01 without an internet connection?

 

[rekenaar]

It is possible. My own HTPC does not have internet.
First I did the "download only" and then copied to HTPC.