MP Crashes after 5 to 15 minutes (1 Viewer)

[huha]

Media Portal (0.2.3.0 with SVN SVN Build 18105 from 3/20/2008) crashes after about 5 to 15 minutes when displaying video or DVD. I have attached a logfile generated from the debug tool for viewing a recorded movie. In the beginning everything looks perfect.
I suspected codec problems, but saw in the error log tons of messages at the end like

2008-03-22 14:31:50.061898 [ERROR][MPMain]: Planescene(720,576,4,3,147358496,True,8):Unhandled exception in Fehler in der Anwendung. Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D bei Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device.PresentInternal(tagRECT* sourceRectangle, tagRECT* destRectangle, IntPtr overrideWindow)
bei Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device.PresentInternal(tagRECT* sourceRectangle, tagRECT* destRectangle, Control overrideWindow)
bei Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device.Present()
bei MediaPortal.Player.PlaneScene.InternalPresentSurface(Int32 width, Int32 height, Int32 arWidth, Int32 arHeight, Boolean InRepaint)

I have no idea what an Unhandled exception error in the application Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D means or how i can fix it. I had also issues without the VISTA SP1 and also on older SVN builds. I run dxdiag and got no errors.
As I love the program (everything else is working perfect) any help here would be highly appreciated.
Recording TV shows with the TV engine works perfect. I can view the movies and DVDs with PowerDVD without having any issues.

I do have a beamer at the analog grafic card output and a TFT at the digital output. I am using a digital SPDIF output and an analog 2 speaker output to my TFT display speakers for the onboard Audio.
I have installed the VISTA codec package.





TV-Server Version:
MediaPortal Version: 0.2.3.0
MediaPortal Skin:
Windows Version: Vista SP1
CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz
HDD: Seagate 2x320GB
Memory: 2GB
Motherboard:
Motherboard Chipset:
Motherboard Bios:
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS
Video Card Driver: 7.15.0011.7431
Sound Card: Realtek Digital Output
Sound Card AC3:
Sound Card Driver: 6.00.0001.5512
1. TV Card: Creatix SAA7131, Triple Capture Device
1. TV Card Type:
1. TV Card Driver:
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec: MPV
MPEG2 Audio Codec: MPA
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Astra 19.2
HTPC Case:
Cooling:
Power Supply:
Remote:
TV:
TV - HTPC Connection:

 

[huha]

I believe I found a hot trace for the crashes.
It looks like MP crashes when in fullscreen modus another process tries to open a window.
This happened when Zonealarm opened another window or clickfinder tried to download the EPG info in a separate window. I will do more debugging and post the results

 

[mzemina]

Why aren't you using a stable version? SVN snapshots are known to have problems!

 

[huha]

I am using TV Engine because i love the streaming concept (on my second laptop via WLAN) and the stable 0.2.3 version does not recognize my TV card.

I think i found the issue and can reproduce the crashes with a simple script. I am starting just a calculator window after 2 minutes with calc.exe. Then I open MP in full screen mode and start an mpeg video. After the 2 minutes (when the calculator opens the window) MP crashes.
I did the same test with VLC in full screen mode and there was no crash. So I do not believe it is an issue with my video driver.

MP now runs great on my system after I ensured that no other processes are opening windows during viewing MP. For that I switched to Windows Firewall.

 

[huha]

Special thanks to vuego for his help
In the media portal configuration the setting "direct showfilter control->video renderer settings ->VMR9->use exclusive mode" needs to be unchecked
With that the crashes in full screen mode were gone.