No video will play (2 Viewers)

[jamfool]

A strange thing happen. I was using media portal happily, without any issues. I installed a new graphics card into my htpc - a NX7300GS. which seems to work fine.

I came back of holiday and now media portal wont play videos at all. when I click any divx file - it shows the desktop for a split second and then goes back to MP - then does nothing.

anyone have any idea why it does this? and how to fix it? I dont think the graphics has anything to do with it - as it work before. Ive tried a system restrore and a reinstallation of mp. no avail.

any advice would be appreciated.

 

[luke16]

Will external players such as vlc or windows media player play the videos, or is it just media portal that wont?

 

[jamfool]

Windows media player will play the files just fine. Its just Media portal that is acting weird.

 

[ronilse]

Hi,
System info & logs(mediaportal.log after you have tried to play a movie) would behelpfull when trying to see whats wrong.

Regards
Roy

 

[jamfool]

Hi,
System info & logs(mediaportal.log after you have tried to play a movie) would behelpfull when trying to see whats wrong.

Regards
Roy

OK here is the entire log for trying to play I:\TV\MovieXviD.avi.

Esentially looks like the error is: 2007-08-17 07:40:07.484375 [Info.][MPMain]: PlaylistPlayer: *** unable to play - I:\TV\MovieXviD.avi - skipping track!
:17.062500 [Info.][2]: dbs:close:MusicDatabaseV8.db3

 

[jamfool]

Can anyone help at all, its driving me crazy. im considering a complete windows re-install, or going shopping for other software - which is a pity as I really like MP.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Uninstall whatever codecs that you have for playing Xvid\Divx including ffdshow, then reboot and reinstall latest "ffdshow tryout"

When this installs, there is a option to not limit which players FFDshow will work with, select this and then hopefully all will be fine with playing your vid's.

 

[bakelsfan]

Looks like it has something to do with DX. Does it work if you use only your monitor to play it? (tv disabled)

 

[jamfool]

removed all codecs and did a fresh install of ffdshow. didnt change anything.

also tried diabling and diconnecting the tv - stil no effect - it wont play on the monitor

new log attached.

VideoPlayerVMR9: Disabling DX9 exclusive mode
2007-08-18 21:03:42.562500 [Info.][MPMain]: Main: DX exclusive mode: False
2007-08-18 21:03:42.578125 [Info.][MPMain]: PlaylistPlayer: *** unable to play - I:\TV\24 - Season 1\24 S1 E01 - 0000 - 0100.avi - skipping track!
2007-08-18 21:03:42.703125 [Info.][MPMain]: Playlist: add I:\TV\24 - Season 1\24 S1 E01 - 0000 - 0100.avi
2007-08-18 21:03:42.703125 [Info.][MPMain]: PlaylistPlayer: Play - I:\TV\24 - Season 1\24 S1 E01 - 0000 - 0100.avi
2007-08-18 21:03:42.703125 [Info.][MPMain]: add cmd:MediaPortal.TV.Recording.StopRadioCommand #1
2007-08-18 21:03:42.718750 [Info.][6]: Commandtop radio



Thanks for the suggestions though. any others?

 

[ronilse]

Hi,
Your log shows that you're missing/bad installed codecs

2007-08-18 21:03:45.218750 [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()

Is that file something special, no standard or something?

Regards
Roy