This is weird - I still can't play some Apple Trailers (1 Viewer)

[Taipan]

Windows XP SP3
MediaPortal v1.0.4.24047
SAF v4.00 beta20 unlocked
OnlineVideos v 0.13.0

Some Apple Trailers simply will not play - I just get a message box popping up with "Cannot play (URL)" - see the screen-shot below.

For example, for the movie "Fantastic Mr Fox", the "World of Roald Dahl" selection will play fine:-

2009-11-16 13:35:28.296875 [Info.][MPMain]: VideoPlayer:ended http://127.0.0.1:30005/?url=http://.../fantasticmrfox/fantasticmrfox-fte2_h720p.mov
2009-11-16 13:35:28.296875 [Info.][MPMain]: VideoPlayer9: Cleanup DShow graph
2009-11-16 13:35:28.531250 [Debug][MPMain]: Remove filter from graph: Default DirectSound Device
2009-11-16 13:35:28.531250 [Debug][MPMain]: Remove filter from graph: Video Mixing Renderer 9
2009-11-16 13:35:28.531250 [Debug][MPMain]: PlaneScene: PresentImage() dispose surfaces
2009-11-16 13:35:28.718750 [Debug][MPMain]: Remove filter from graph: MONOGRAM AAC Decoder
2009-11-16 13:35:28.718750 [Debug][MPMain]: Remove filter from graph: MPC - Video decoder
2009-11-16 13:35:28.718750 [Debug][MPMain]: PlaneScene: PresentImage() dispose surfaces
2009-11-16 13:35:28.718750 [Debug][MPMain]: Remove filter from graph: Haali Media Splitter (AR)
2009-11-16 13:35:28.734375 [Debug][MPMain]: Remove filter from graph: File Source (URL)
2009-11-16 13:35:28.734375 [Debug][MPMain]: VMR9: Dispose​

However, the "Trailer" selection from the same movie "Fantastic Mr Fox" will NOT play:-

2009-11-16 13:34:52.984375 [Info.][MPMain]: VideoPlayerlay http://127.0.0.1:30005/?url=http://...t/fantasticmrfox/fantasticmrfox-fte_h720p.mov
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2009-11-16 13:34:54.703125 [Warn.][MPMain]: VMR9: Pin: 0 not connected: 80040209
2009-11-16 13:34:54.703125 [Warn.][MPMain]: VMR9: Pin: 1 not connected: 80040209
2009-11-16 13:34:54.703125 [Warn.][MPMain]: VMR9: Pin: 2 not connected: 80040209
2009-11-16 13:34:54.703125 [Info.][MPMain]: VideoPlayer9: Cleanup DShow graph
2009-11-16 13:34:54.703125 [Debug][MPMain]: Remove filter from graph: Default DirectSound Device
2009-11-16 13:34:54.703125 [Debug][MPMain]: Remove filter from graph: Video Mixing Renderer 9
2009-11-16 13:34:54.703125 [Debug][MPMain]: PlaneScene: PresentImage() dispose surfaces
2009-11-16 13:34:54.703125 [Debug][MPMain]: Remove filter from graph: ffdshow Audio Decoder
2009-11-16 13:34:54.703125 [Debug][MPMain]: Remove filter from graph: MPEG-I Stream Splitter
2009-11-16 13:34:54.703125 [Debug][MPMain]: Remove filter from graph: File Source (URL)​

The puzzling thing is, why is the MPEG-I Stream Splitter (a component of quartz.dll) chosen in this instance, instead of Haali Media Splitter (AR), for what appears to be an identical video format?

I have attached the log files from SAF and will be happy to supply any other log files that may be useful.

Cheers,

Taipan

 

[Taipan]

I think I have found the solution to this issue ...

I increased the merit of the Haali Media Splitter (AR) to 0x00800000 so that it is greater than the MPEG-I Stream Splitter (which was causing the problem), and I decreased the merit of the ffdshow Audio Decoder (from 0x3FFFFFFF) to 0x00600000 because the ffdshow Audio Decoder was being inserted into some graphs along with the Monogram AAC Decoder.

I haven't done extensive testing of other areas of MediaPortal, so I can't be sure that these changes have not broken something, somewhere else ... but it looks fine, so far.

Maybe these changes need to be included in SAF?

 

[hoborg]

Thanks Taipan.

Simply increase merit of Haali Media Splitter (AR) works here too, i will modify SAF to do it automatically.