SplashScreen hangs when no audio device available (3 Viewers)

[peque]

It's really easy to reproduce. No audio device in system, and start MP.

In my case is very important because I've got my HTPC 24x7 up and running, and I automatically restart it every night so I don't have to deal with some MP bugs that appear after some days of usage... Now I can't restart it because my AVR is off, no other audio device is present, and thus MP hangs...

 

[Owlsroost]

Yes I saw JIRA, that's why I ask... It's been to mayor versions with no news about it.

@Owlsroost, as I said some posts back:

Believe me or not, enabling onboard audio makes my MP react with some delay to any key I press. It's weird, and it stays the same way even if I disable this audio device in windows. Only after disabling it in BIOS the delay disappears.

Really strange all in all, but I prefer to deal with this bug till it's fixed than keeping my onboard audio enabled.

That's why I don't want to enable onboard audio...

You could try using VB-Audio CABLE - http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/index.htm - as an alternative 'fallback' audio device (not tried it myself, just did some Googling)

 

[Owlsroost]

Part of the issue with fixing this is deciding what should happen when there is no audio device available - should MP quit (which is what most multimedia software would do in that situation, with an error message) or sit in a polling loop for a while, waiting for the audio device to become available ?

 

[peque]

You could try using VB-Audio CABLE - http://vb-audio.pagesperso-orange.fr/Cable/index.htm - as an alternative 'fallback' audio device (not tried it myself, just did some Googling)

Great! Thank you very much. I didn't think this was even possible, and so simple. It works as a workaround so I can perform my beloved restarts at night.

Thanks a lot @Owlsroost.

 

[Sebastiii]

It's really easy to reproduce. No audio device in system, and start MP.

In my case is very important because I've got my HTPC 24x7 up and running, and I automatically restart it every night so I don't have to deal with some MP bugs that appear after some days of usage... Now I can't restart it because my AVR is off, no other audio device is present, and thus MP hangs...

Did you try setting MP as BASS wasapi ?

 

[Peter2]

Hi guys, I think I have similar issues.
About 1 month ago, the tv set was replaced and the connection TV <-> HTPC changed from S-Video to HDMI.
Almost together, I switched from MePo 1.5 to 1.6 because I had other problems so I was not sure why this new problem appeared.
I too have found the HTPC still running after grabbing the EPG data and also no sound after standby/hibernate until a reboot.
Because having multiple other issues to get my 1.6 setup to the level of before, I didn't pay much attention to this but I think in 'all' the changes that I have done lately, sometimes both problems would dis-/reappear.

 

[peque]

It's really easy to reproduce. No audio device in system, and start MP.

In my case is very important because I've got my HTPC 24x7 up and running, and I automatically restart it every night so I don't have to deal with some MP bugs that appear after some days of usage... Now I can't restart it because my AVR is off, no other audio device is present, and thus MP hangs...

Did you try setting MP as BASS wasapi ?

Yes. I do use wasapi for MyMusic, as I've got some dts audio albums. Same issue.