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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 836165" data-attributes="member: 18896">Re: AW: Re: MP crashes when importing some moviesMediaInfo is a system that can extract information out of a mediafile quickly. It comes in the form of an application that you can use yourself, and a DLL that can be used by other programs such as MediaPortal and MovingPictures (they both use it). It obtains information such as framerate (MePo uses this info for example to allow 24Hz playback on 24fps media), but also resolution, runtime, and codec info which MovingPictures uses to display those media icons with.But as new codecs are released, new containers, new configurations and bugs are found, the MediaInfo development team updates their product. By default MediaPortal comes with an older MediaInfo DLL that sits in the program root folder, alongside the mediaportal.exe file. You can manually upgrade this DLL (use the 32-bit DLL even on a 64-bit OS) by downloading it from:<a href="http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download/Windows" target="_blank">Grab the 32-bit (without installer) DLL file from this location, unzip and overwrite the MediaInfo.DLL file in your MePo folder</a>You can also use the MPEI installer to install mvCentral, which is a cool plugin to play music videos with. It comes bundled with v0.7.52 of MediaInfo.DLL and asks you during installation if you wish to upgrade. Since MediaPortal, MovingPictures, mvCentral and all other plugins that need it, use the same MediaInfo library it will fix your problems. It can happen that you have another mediainfo DLL on your system that got registered into the OS and cause a conflict. So if you continue to have problems you need to scan your system for other references to an older MediaInfo file and remove those.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 836165, member: 18896"] [b]Re: AW: Re: MP crashes when importing some movies[/b] MediaInfo is a system that can extract information out of a mediafile quickly. It comes in the form of an application that you can use yourself, and a DLL that can be used by other programs such as MediaPortal and MovingPictures (they both use it). It obtains information such as framerate (MePo uses this info for example to allow 24Hz playback on 24fps media), but also resolution, runtime, and codec info which MovingPictures uses to display those media icons with. But as new codecs are released, new containers, new configurations and bugs are found, the MediaInfo development team updates their product. By default MediaPortal comes with an older MediaInfo DLL that sits in the program root folder, alongside the mediaportal.exe file. You can manually upgrade this DLL (use the 32-bit DLL even on a 64-bit OS) by downloading it from: [b][url=http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download/Windows]Grab the 32-bit (without installer) DLL file from this location, unzip and overwrite the MediaInfo.DLL file in your MePo folder[/url][/b] You can also use the MPEI installer to install mvCentral, which is a cool plugin to play music videos with. It comes bundled with v0.7.52 of MediaInfo.DLL and asks you during installation if you wish to upgrade. Since MediaPortal, MovingPictures, mvCentral and all other plugins that need it, use the same MediaInfo library it will fix your problems. It can happen that you have another mediainfo DLL on your system that got registered into the OS and cause a conflict. So if you continue to have problems you need to scan your system for other references to an older MediaInfo file and remove those. [/QUOTE]

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