MP101 Video Playback error - "Unable To Play" (1 Viewer)

[jpa]

I was checking my logs for MediaPortal, now that I found them. TsReader.log shows something interesting when I try to open a previously recorded movie:

04-05-2009 22:30:59.551 [17f4]-------------- v1.0.5 ----------------
04-05-2009 22:30:59.552 [17f4]CTsReaderFilter::ctor
04-05-2009 22:30:59.552 [17f4]CRTSPClient::Initialize()
04-05-2009 22:30:59.553 [17f4]CRTSPClient::createClient()
04-05-2009 22:30:59.553 [17f4]Wait for seeking to eof 0
04-05-2009 22:30:59.554 [17f4]SetRelaxedMode
04-05-2009 22:30:59.554 [17f4]Normal discontinuities filtering
04-05-2009 22:30:59.555 [17f4]CALLBACK SET
04-05-2009 22:30:59.555 [17f4]SetRequestAudioChangeCallback SET
04-05-2009 22:30:59.557 [17f4]CTsReaderFilter::Load()
04-05-2009 22:30:59.557 [17f4]open rtsp:rtsp://sulo/BD5D6F6A
04-05-2009 22:30:59.558 [17f4]CRTSPClient::OpenStream()
04-05-2009 22:30:59.558 [17f4]CRTSPClient::getSDPDescriptionFromURL()
04-05-2009 22:31:00.883 [17f4]Failed to get a SDP description from URL rtsp://sulo/BD5D6F6A connect() failed: Invalid argument
04-05-2009 22:31:00.883 [17f4]CRTSPClient::shutdown()
...

So is this a problem with MediaPortal's rtsp implementation? Trying to view live TV currently just hangs MP so I'm not able to get a good log of that.

 

[kszabo]

+1 here (divX, xvid avis and h264 mkvs suddenly won't play)

in my case the problem was the subtitle handling of MP 1.0.1. Just follow the instructions of MP config:

- install Haali with avi support, enable autoloading directvobsub
- install directvobsub
- set "show subtitles" in mp config for videos
- remove everything in postprocessing section of mp configuration/videos

for people how don´t use subs: even videos without subtitles can have problems because of false configuration graph of MP fails to be built. Maybe worth a try.

I use EVR under Vista 32bit

 

[ddlooping]

I forgot to mention I'm using the latest version of Moving Pictures and KMPlayer as the external player.

 

[BigLebensky]

same problem here.
on two completely different machines there is no way to get any video to be played.
i tried with or without external codecs, on a freshly installed vista64, no luck.
im running out of options here so pls help us mighty MP gurus

 

[mdolan]

Still borken.

Tried the 102 upgrade but same issues remain. Very dissapointing that the devs haven't even acknowledged this as a bug despite clearly quite a few people on this thread having problems :-(

Oh well, back down to 100 (again!) and hoping that a dev might be willing to take a look at this sometime.

Cheers,
Mike

 

[tebba]

Having the same problem, even tho im using an external player... I just want the message to not appear :/ any ideas developers?

 

[snowy2008]

I'm having exactly the same issue but with a difference that may or may not be a clue :

1. Upgrade from 1.0.0 to 1.0.2 and everything worked fine!

2. Changed my video card from an Nvidia 6200 to an ATI HD2600 and the problem started.

I think it must be something in the ATI software ??

 

[kszabo]

I think it must be something in the ATI software ??

I don´t know. I have no playback problems with 1.0.2 / ATi 3400HD onboard / EVR / Vista. Once I had problems with 1.0.1, before proper installing of Haali splitter and DirectVobSub. Reinstalling and configuring as recommended solved the problem.

This is surely a graph building problem (file->splitter->directvobsub->videocodec->renderer). Unfortunately you cannot examine the graph as the video file does not even start to play...

What you can try to find out where the problem lies:
1. start MP
2. try to play video file, wait for error message
3. close MP
4. open log folder and open mediaportal.log (or similar, don´t remember). Look at the last few rows and look for error messages (unable to load a filter, renderer etc...) You will se where the graph building process breaks down.

In my case there was something about DirectVobSub there.

To solve the problem I would:
1. first backup my OS as image
2. reinstall Haali splitter with .avi support, configure to autoload DirectVobSub
3. reinstall DirectVobSub
4. reinstall ffdshow, and set every stable video format to it (h.264 deactivate if you want Cyberlink PowerDVD codec to do it)
5. install PDVD7/8
6. configure MP video section (mpg2 Codec pdvd, h.264 codec pdvd, Audiocodec ffdshow, activate checkbox for subtitles as the recommendation says there)
7. try EVR or VMR9 as renderer
8. try new Catalyst (9.3 works fine for me)

 

[snowy2008]

Here is the section of the log where it breaks :

2009-05-20 12:22:03.906250 [Info.][MPMain]: VideoPlayerlay \\cyril\media\Movies\10 Items Or Less.avi
2009-05-20 12:22:04.031250 [Info.][MPMain]: VideoPlayerVMR9: Enabling DX9 exclusive mode
2009-05-20 12:22:04.109375 [Info.][MPMain]: VideoPlayer9:exception while creating DShow graph Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID {51B4ABF3-748F-4E3B-A276-C828330E926A} from the IClassFactory failed due to the following error: 80040273. at MediaPortal.Player.VMR9Util.AddVMR9(IGraphBuilder graphBuilder)
at MediaPortal.Player.VideoPlayerVMR9.GetInterfaces()
2009-05-20 12:22:04.125000 [Info.][MPMain]: player:ended


Any ideas please folks?

EDIT: I am using XP SP3 by the way - I enabled EVR mode and it works fine but, of course, it won't play any of my HD video files. Should I install Vista and use EVR mode? Does EVR mode support hardware decoding under Vista?

UPDATE: Upgrade to Catalyst 9.4 and it works a treat!!!

 

[mdolan]

Hmmm. Over 760 views of this topic so I guess some others are having this issue. Perhaps this could be acknowledged as a bug?