No Video playback on Media Portal 2.2.3 (1 Viewer)

[Octavius]

I have a new install of Windows 10 (2004), running Media Portal 2.2.3, on a machine that's set up to be a dedicated HTPC.

I can play music and view images from the media libraries I've set up, but I can't get any videos to play at all, including a local DVD. I've attached screenshots of the errors I get, but it doesn't tell me much.

Originally, I was testing Kodi on this HTPC, as part of that I installed VLC to give Kodi the ability to decode DVD and Blu-Ray disks. VLC is able to play both videos over the network and DVDs. Is there something I need to set up in Media Portal to have it use VLC to play/decode videos? Or is there somewhere with more information about why the videos wont' play so I can troubleshoot?

Many thanks

 

[Octavius]

I've found the error in the Client.log file:

[2020-10-16 00:50:23,548] [1194483] [136 ] [INFO ] - WorkflowManager: Trying to remove 1 workflow states from navigation stack...
[2020-10-16 00:50:23,550] [1194485] [136 ] [INFO ] - WorkflowManager: Trying to show screen 'BrowseMediaNavigation'...
[2020-10-16 00:50:23,551] [1194486] [136 ] [INFO ] - WorkflowManager: Screen 'BrowseMediaNavigation' successfully shown
[2020-10-16 00:50:24,117] [1195052] [136 ] [INFO ] - BassLibrary: Loading player add-ins from 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Team MediaPortal\MP2-Client\Plugins\BassLibraries\Plugins'
[2020-10-16 00:50:25,991] [1196926] [136 ] [INFO ] - BassLibrary: Loaded 16 audio decoders.
[2020-10-16 00:50:26,512] [1197447] [136 ] [WARN ] - MediaPortal.UI.Players.Video.VideoPlayer: Unable to play 'Resource '{03dd2da6-4da8-4d3e-9e55-80e3165729a3}://\\MyServer\Media\TV/TV Series/Rules of Engagement/Season 6/06x14 - Goodbye Dolly.mp4' at system '805a91c0-57a9-48e4-8f65-040de226a2b0'
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {FA10746C-9B63-4B6C-BC49-FC300EA5F256} failed due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)).
at MediaPortal.UI.Players.Video.VideoPlayer.AddEvr()
at MediaPortal.UI.Players.Video.VideoPlayer.AddPresenter()
at MediaPortal.UI.Players.Video.BaseDXPlayer.SetMediaItem(IResourceLocator locator, String mediaItemTitle, MediaItem mediaItem)
at MediaPortal.UI.Players.Video.VideoPlayerBuilder.GetPlayer(MediaItem mediaItem)
[2020-10-16 00:50:26,517] [1197452] [136 ] [ERROR] - Unable to create media player for media item '06x14 - Goodbye Dolly'
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {FA10746C-9B63-4B6C-BC49-FC300EA5F256} failed due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)).
at MediaPortal.UI.Players.Video.VideoPlayer.AddEvr()
at MediaPortal.UI.Players.Video.VideoPlayer.AddPresenter()
at MediaPortal.UI.Players.Video.BaseDXPlayer.SetMediaItem(IResourceLocator locator, String mediaItemTitle, MediaItem mediaItem)
at MediaPortal.UI.Players.Video.VideoPlayerBuilder.GetPlayer(MediaItem mediaItem)
at MediaPortal.UI.Services.Players.PlayerManager.BuildPlayer_NoLock(MediaItem mediaItem, ICollection`1& exceptions)
[2020-10-16 00:50:26,538] [1197473] [AMQ 'UPnPRendererPlugin'] [ERROR] - Player Error
[2020-10-16 00:50:26,541] [1197476] [Thread12 ] [INFO ] - WorkflowManager: Pushing workflow state 'VideoFullscreenContent' (id='882c1142-8028-4112-a67d-370e6e483a33') onto the navigation stack...
[2020-10-16 00:50:26,546] [1197481] [Thread12 ] [INFO ] - WorkflowManager: Screen was updated by workflow model

Any idea what this error means?

 

[morpheus_xx]

Are you using a Windows "N" version or similar? Those versions are missing the Windows Media stuff, which need to be installed separately. The call which fails above is related to the Enhanced Video Renderer (EVR) which doesn't seem to find required filters