MP crashing when playing recorded TV (1 Viewer)

[Noelix]

I fixed it! I know what causes the bug now (don't ask me why though) - it only occurs when you have this combination of filters for television:

Video codec: MPV Decoder Filter
Audio codec: DScaler Audio Decoder

I switched the audio codec over to MPA Decoder Filter and the live/recorded tv works great. I'll report this in the test team forum so it's at least a reported issue there. If anyone else wants to try and reproduce the results just check out the screen cap I took here.

 

[lyngedrengen]

Hi Noelix (and others)

I have the same problem as you, but unfortunately its with other combinations of decoders. The only one that worked (at least for a couple of days ) was the Dscaler for both Audio and Video. Sadly that doesn't do the trick either anymore...

MP 2.0 worked fine with my Geforce 200TI, but it only had 64 MB of memory so there was some flickering - so I bought the Geforce 5500 with 256 MB.

Any solutions? I'll gladly post the logs as soon as I find out where you can get these logs...

Hope my english is understandable...

Kind regards
Jan

 

[Noelix]

My suggestion would be to do the same kinds of things I'm doing, which is putting your system information into a post (see the sticky post in the general support forum https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=2766), and then posting pertinent logs at http://pastebin.team-mediaportal.com/. If you installed MP to it's default install path your log files will be under C:\Program Files\Team Mediaportal\MediaPortal\logs\. MP automatically creates different logs depending on what it's doing. All of them can be opened with notepad, they're just .txt files renamed .log. MediaPortal.log is the log file which takes note of every action taken by the program and by the user, so it will be the largest. error.log is created by MP when the user encounters an error (usually an error message, like no EPG data or something). exception.log is created when MP crashes, and more specifically when MP knows it has crashed, so it may not always be created. The other logs that pop up depend on what you're doing with the program at the time (i.e. epg.log, vmr9.log, etc.) So once you've posted all that information, describe in as much pertinent detail as you can what causes MP to crash or what MP does when you do this or change this setting, etc.

I just purchased and installed the same video card as you - the GeForce FX 5500 - and I've had good results when using both MPA and MPV filters for Television. Welcome to the MP community!

 

[Broceliande]

Of course your video card must be dx9 compatible to have the benefit of vmr9, and of course , dx9c must be installed ( then vmr9 will be used by default ), but you also have to know that some other hardware requirements are needed ( see MP's wiki ).
If you meet MP requirements and still encounter trouble, consider a
windows xp clean install. In most cases , a clean XP install solves most of our users troubles, because of bad drivers/codecs/filters combinations.
A clean and stable HTPC needs a clean system.
Whatever, if you still have troubles, post your logs properly, without those we cannot help you.