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<blockquote data-quote="cewillis" data-source="post: 885959" data-attributes="member: 106719">mm and Tony,&nbsp;First, I am working on upgrading to 1.2.3 (carefully so as not to lose existing functionality, and slowly with several other things going on), but I will definitely try the LAV codecs/filters first.&nbsp;&nbsp;mm,&nbsp;&quot;I can't guarantee anything (about 1.2.3), and probably nobody else can either.&quot; I take your points about this and about upgrading -- people in the original thread had pretty much convinced me, but I am MUCH happier knowing that there IS a real problem even if not completely understood.&nbsp;I see the differences you point out. Thank you.&nbsp; But some questions ---1) Do the problems you found explain the behavior; ie, if 'connecting audio' fails, and 'aud:OnThreadStartPlay...' doesn't happen, does that mean that MP would appear to hang up, and be unresponsive to any input except 'Stop'. (which is what I actually see). To an amateur, it might seem instead that the video would play, but with no sound.&nbsp;2) Could these problems be related to any hardware drivers?&nbsp;3) 'codec may not be able to handle the encoding format and options that your provider uses perfectly' This would seem to imply that a specific problem recording would always fail -- but that's not the case. There is no rhyme or reason about what recording will fail, and when a failure occurs, a reboot 'always' fixes it. (at least every time so far)&nbsp;4) Why does a reboot fix the problem? Doesn't that imply that 'something' got into a 'messed up' state? (to use a technical term).&nbsp;I do NOT ask or want you to spend any more time trying to definitively pin this down. If you have a quick thought about the questions, that would be great, but otherwise many, many thanks -- and I'll post here what happens with the LAV filters. (of course, all I'll know is that the problem hasn't recurred - yet)&nbsp;Best,Cal</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cewillis, post: 885959, member: 106719"] mm and Tony, First, I am working on upgrading to 1.2.3 (carefully so as not to lose existing functionality, and slowly with several other things going on), but I will definitely try the LAV codecs/filters first. mm, "I can't guarantee anything (about 1.2.3), and probably nobody else can either." I take your points about this and about upgrading -- people in the original thread had pretty much convinced me, but I am MUCH happier knowing that there IS a real problem even if not completely understood. I see the differences you point out. Thank you. But some questions --- 1) Do the problems you found explain the behavior; ie, if 'connecting audio' fails, and 'aud:OnThreadStartPlay...' doesn't happen, does that mean that MP would appear to hang up, and be unresponsive to any input except 'Stop'. (which is what I actually see). To an amateur, it might seem instead that the video would play, but with no sound. 2) Could these problems be related to any hardware drivers? 3) 'codec may not be able to handle the encoding format and options that your provider uses perfectly' This would seem to imply that a specific problem recording would always fail -- but that's not the case. There is no rhyme or reason about what recording will fail, and when a failure occurs, a reboot 'always' fixes it. (at least every time so far) 4) Why does a reboot fix the problem? Doesn't that imply that 'something' got into a 'messed up' state? (to use a technical term). I do NOT ask or want you to spend any more time trying to definitively pin this down. If you have a quick thought about the questions, that would be great, but otherwise many, many thanks -- and I'll post here what happens with the LAV filters. (of course, all I'll know is that the problem hasn't recurred - yet) Best, Cal [/QUOTE]

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