MP 1.1.3 suddenly won't play anything (1 Viewer)

[ScoobyMP]

MediaPortal Version: 1.1.3
MediaPortal Skin: StreamedMP 1.4.12.2620
Windows Version: XP SP3
CPU Type: Core 2 Duo
Memory: 4GB
Video Card: Radeon HD5670
MPEG2 Video Codec: ffdShow
MPEG2 Audio Codec: AC3Filter 1.63b
h.264 Video Codec: CoreAVC 2.0
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI

Hi, I suddenly have a problem with MP. I've made no changes to my configuration, but today on starting neither XVid, H264 or any other video files will play through TV Series or Moving Pictures or Videos.

I updated my ATI drivers a week or two ago, but everything was fine after that, and that's the most recent change. I've uninstalled all codecs, uninstalled MP and all files, cleaned out the registry, resintalled video drivers, reinstalled MP, and tried the following:
- Using MPC-HC as MP's codecs. No joy.
- Reinstalled ffdShow and used that. No joy.
- Reinstalled CoreAVC and set that for H264. No joy.

Yet all files play fine in MPC-HC on VMR9. I can get things to play in MP if I set the renderer to EVR, but it's so dog-slow that it's unwatchable. VMR9 is fine in MPC-HC though, so I'm sure this is a MediaPortal problem. All files play fine using MPC's internal filters, and then when ffdShow, CoreAVC, and AC3Filter are installed. In Graphstudio it's showing just the filters that are in use, each directly connected. No apparent problems there.

Does anyone have any ideas how I can get MediaPortal playing properly again?

Thanks.

 

[mjmapi]

SAF (Stand Alone filter) MP codec pack is your best bet, i would suggest that you download and try

 

[ScoobyMP]

Thanks, I'll give it a go although when I looked at SAF it appears it's just ffdShow with some extra utilities anyway. I don't get why MediaPortal itself would suddenly stop playing any video files, when other applications have no problems however.... It's just weird as it's worked flawlessly for ages.

SAF appears to be unavailable at the moment, so I'm trying the latest ffdShow on its own. Here's an extract of the log from MediaPortal:

2011-04-30 13:40:42.234375 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: DLL Version : MediaInfoLib - v0.7.35
2011-04-30 13:40:42.234375 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: Inspecting media : G:\TV\Dexter\Dexter - Season 5\Dexter.S05E01.x264.mkv
2011-04-30 13:40:42.234375 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: Parse speed : 0.3
2011-04-30 13:40:42.234375 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: FrameRate : 23.976
2011-04-30 13:40:42.234375 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: Width : 1280
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: Height : 720
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: AspectRatio : widescreen
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: VideoCodec : AVC [ "avc.png" ]
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: Scan type : progressive
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: IsInterlaced : False
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: VideoResolution : 720P
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: VideoDuration : 3205080
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: AudioRate : 48000
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: AudioChannels : 6 [ "5.1.png" ]
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: AudioCodec : AC-3 [ "ac-3.png" ]
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: HasAudio : True
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: HasVideo : True
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: HasSubtitles : False
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: MediaInfoWrapper.MediaInfoWrapper: NumSubtitles : 0
2011-04-30 13:40:42.250000 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: RefreshRateChanger.AdaptRefreshRate: framerate on file G:\TV\Dexter\Dexter - Season 5 (720p)\Dexter.S05E01.720p.HDTV.x264-ORENJI.mkv is 23.976
2011-04-30 13:40:42.265625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: RefreshRateChanger.SetRefreshRateBasedOnFPS: current refreshrate is 60hz - changing it to 24hz
2011-04-30 13:40:42.265625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: RefreshRateChanger.SetRefreshRateBasedOnFPS: using internal win32 method for changing refreshrate. current is 60hz, desired is 24
2011-04-30 13:40:42.281250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: g_Player.Play(G:\TV\Dexter\Dexter - Season 5 (720p)\Dexter.S05E01.720p.HDTV.x264-ORENJI.mkv Video)
2011-04-30 13:40:42.281250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Loading external players plugins
2011-04-30 13:40:42.281250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: found plugin:MediaPortal.FoobarPlugin.FoobarPlugin in C:\Tools\Media\MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\ExternalPlayers\ExternalPlayers.dll
2011-04-30 13:40:42.281250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: player:Foobar2000. author: int_20h/rtv
2011-04-30 13:40:42.281250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: found plugin:MediaPortal.ITunesPlayer.ITunesPlugin in C:\Tools\Media\MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\ExternalPlayers\ExternalPlayers.dll
2011-04-30 13:40:42.281250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: player:iTunes. author: Frodo
2011-04-30 13:40:42.281250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: found plugin:MediaPortal.WinampPlayer.WinampPlugin in C:\Tools\Media\MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\ExternalPlayers\ExternalPlayers.dll
2011-04-30 13:40:42.281250 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: player:Winamp. author: int_20h
2011-04-30 13:40:42.296875 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: VideoPlayerlay G:\TV\Dexter\Dexter - Season 5 (720p)\Dexter.S05E01.720p.HDTV.x264-ORENJI.mkv
2011-04-30 13:40:42.296875 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: VideoPlayerVMR9: Enabling DX9 exclusive mode
2011-04-30 13:40:42.312500 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: VMR9: added Video Mixing Renderer 9 to graph
2011-04-30 13:40:42.390625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Failed filter: ffdshow DXVA Video Decoder not found ffdshow DXVA Video Decoder
2011-04-30 13:40:42.390625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Added filter: AC3Filter to graph
2011-04-30 13:40:42.390625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: Added filter: ffdshow Audio Decoder to graph
2011-04-30 13:40:42.390625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: DirectShowUtils: First try to insert new audio renderer Default DirectSound Device
2011-04-30 13:40:42.390625 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: DirectShowUtils: Found audio renderer
2011-04-30 13:40:42.453125 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: VMR9: Pin: 0 not connected: 80040209
2011-04-30 13:40:42.468750 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: VMR9: Pin: 1 not connected: 80040209
2011-04-30 13:40:42.468750 [Warn.][MPMain(1)]: VMR9: Pin: 2 not connected: 80040209
2011-04-30 13:40:42.468750 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: VideoPlayer9: Failed to render file -> vmr9
2011-04-30 13:40:42.468750 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: VideoPlayer9: Cleanup DShow graph
2011-04-30 13:40:42.468750 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: VideoPlayerVMR9: Disabling DX9 exclusive mode
2011-04-30 13:40:42.468750 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: g_Player: ended

It seems for some reason it's not loading the filters even though other applications do and show them connected fine with VMR9. Could this be something to do with the "external players" part? I'm confused by that as I've never changed MP to use an external player.

Curiously I can get XVids to play fine though MediaPortal's "Videos" UI, but not when going through "TV Series".

All ideas welcome

 

[ScoobyMP]

Hmmm. Fixed. I cleared everything down again and put it all back, and then finally reinstalled Haali splitter and all it now OK again.