I had similar issues. The history of which is in this thread, as are the solutions that worked for me. To sumarise.....
Uninstalling all codecs and codec packs and then installing Vista codec pack only worked for me. This meant VLC plugin is not needed to play these streams that my trailers uses.
However, if you do not want to mess around with your current codec config and want to use vlc plugin, you may need to check the following. Make sure you have enabled the VLC plugin in Mp config and that you have selected http streams check box. That is the only additional check box you need to enable other than those already selected by default.
If you have Haali media splitter installed. You may also need to go into your Haali Media splitter settings and turn off error reporting. This may then allow the VLC plugin to be used instead of the internal player which is tried first.
I believe that the usual advice is NEVER install a codec pack.
I have the recommended codecs from here + the nVidia PureVideo installed and never have had an issue! (touching wood!)
Yesterday, i was having problems with the plugin in my "test pc", i decided to install it in my real HTPC and guess what, it works, BUT, the games trailers don´t.
I´m not that angry because i wanted this plugin because of the apple traillers feature, but anyone have a guess why the games don´t work?
By the way, i have the codecs listed in the PDF guide:
Just noticed the cast display is not available (apple gives no data in the json feed i pull them from). I already fixed this by pulling this data from another part of the site. I will be releasing a new version this weekend.
Well dunno what it is this time, but I've some issues with the latest plugin. I reinstalled everything (MP + codecs) and the problem persists. Attached the logs for you to review.
The thing is when I use release 2.0.0.137 everythings working fine. When I use the latest release from google code it crashes after trying to playback a file.
Sorry to bother you again with probably some user config mistake... Checked the logs myself but couldn't really make sense of what is causing this issue.
Sometimes, i don´t know why, MP crashes when i try to open a trailer info.
Sorry about the dumb question but, were can i find a log error with the possible problem?
This plug-in looks awesome, I wish this worked for me .. However, when I start the plugin and select a trailer it sits there, when I press any
button then the widow flashes with a crashlog, MP doesn't crash, but the plugins trailer doesn't work...
I have the following in my error.log
2008-09-28 21:01:00.530632 [ERROR][MPMain]: OnMessage exceptionystem.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at MediaPortal.Plugins.Trailers.GUITrailers.showDetails(String key)
at MediaPortal.Plugins.Trailers.GUITrailers.OnClicked(Int32 controlId, GUIControl control, ActionType actionType)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIWindow.OnMessage(GUIMessage message)
2008-09-28 21:01:23.874382 [ERROR][17]: MediaPortal: Unhandled exception occured
2008-09-28 21:01:23.874382 [ERROR][17]: Exception ystem.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Server stack trace:
at MediaPortal.Plugins.Trailers.GUITrailers.OnItemSelected(GUIListItem item, GUIControl parent)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink._PrivateProcessMessage(IntPtr md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.PrivateProcessMessage(RuntimeMethodHandle md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.AsyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg, IMessageSink replySink)
Exception rethrown at [0]:
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.EndInvokeHelper(Message reqMsg, Boolean bProxyCase)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RemotingProxy.Invoke(Object NotUsed, MessageData& msgData)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIListItem.ItemSelectedHandler.EndInvoke(IAsyncResult result)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIListItem.itemSelectedCallback(IAsyncResult ar)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.AsyncResult.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.AsyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg, IMessageSink replySink)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.AgileAsyncWorkerItem.ThreadPoolCallBack(Object o)
at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.WaitCallback_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback(Object state)
2008-09-28 21:01:23.890007 [ERROR][17]: Exception :Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
2008-09-28 21:01:23.890007 [ERROR][17]: site ystem.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.IMessage EndInvokeHelper(System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.Message, Boolean)
2008-09-28 21:01:23.905632 [ERROR][17]: source :mscorlib
2008-09-28 21:01:23.921257 [ERROR][17]: stacktrace:
Server stack trace:
at MediaPortal.Plugins.Trailers.GUITrailers.OnItemSelected(GUIListItem item, GUIControl parent)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink._PrivateProcessMessage(IntPtr md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.PrivateProcessMessage(RuntimeMethodHandle md, Object[] args, Object server, Int32 methodPtr, Boolean fExecuteInContext, Object[]& outArgs)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.AsyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg, IMessageSink replySink)
Exception rethrown at [0]:
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.EndInvokeHelper(Message reqMsg, Boolean bProxyCase)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RemotingProxy.Invoke(Object NotUsed, MessageData& msgData)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIListItem.ItemSelectedHandler.EndInvoke(IAsyncResult result)
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIListItem.itemSelectedCallback(IAsyncResult ar)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.AsyncResult.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.StackBuilderSink.AsyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg, IMessageSink replySink)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.AgileAsyncWorkerItem.ThreadPoolCallBack(Object o)
at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.WaitCallback_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading._ThreadPoolWaitCallback.PerformWaitCallback(Object state)
Any ideas why I am getting this, I would love to get this plugin working.