- September 12, 2015
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Hi MP community,
Appologies that my first post here is to seek help. I've been using MP 1.6, server and client, happily for over a year (you can see my system specs), so I want to thank the community for providing MP.
I recently had a hardware failure that corrupted my OS system files to the point where a format and reinstall was necessary (Win7 x64). Now that I've reinstalled, I'm considering a different front-end for one reason: timeshifting videos while subs were displayed crashed the front end almost 100% of the time. That's crash crash, as in MP's crash handler would pop up. It didn't matter whether I was viewing recorded TV (ATSC) or downloaded videos using different wrappers (.mp4, .avi) with external .srt files. If I timeshifted it while the subs were displayed, in MP, MP crashed. Pausing the video while subs were displayed would freeze the MP front end ~50% of the time.
I googled around, couldn't find an answer, and so we learned to turn off subs before timeshifting.
I was using MP 1.6 very conventionally, as a single-seat OTA PVR (ATSC, I'm on mainland US) using mc2xml and grabbing subs from the OTA steam through the server config. I had a set of folders it scanned for external videos I downloaded into it, and a blu-ray player integrated into the build with PowerDVD 10 handling the decrypt-playback. It worked as a great front-end for everything but Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/HBOGo.
I saved a bunch of logs from the crash, but they were all on the OS drive that was reformatted last night. If it helps, I was using the standard release of K-Lite Codec Pack v10.something, which I installed before MP1.6 so that any codec-specific changes made by the install would stick. I default to ffdshow, and I tried all the different codec and filter options for video rendering, none helped. Also, this problem was only in MP. Using Media Player Home Cinema, we never had an issue with subs.
I recall from the logs that the error was related to the drawing, caching and clearing of 'graphs'. This thread might be related, but I don't know.
So here's my question: is this a known issue, and is there a way to handle it? Now that I'm reinstalling, I'm considering a different front end like Kodi. The thing is, I really don't want to switch from MP, especially since development has continued on MP1.
Sorry for the wall-o-text.
Appologies that my first post here is to seek help. I've been using MP 1.6, server and client, happily for over a year (you can see my system specs), so I want to thank the community for providing MP.
I recently had a hardware failure that corrupted my OS system files to the point where a format and reinstall was necessary (Win7 x64). Now that I've reinstalled, I'm considering a different front-end for one reason: timeshifting videos while subs were displayed crashed the front end almost 100% of the time. That's crash crash, as in MP's crash handler would pop up. It didn't matter whether I was viewing recorded TV (ATSC) or downloaded videos using different wrappers (.mp4, .avi) with external .srt files. If I timeshifted it while the subs were displayed, in MP, MP crashed. Pausing the video while subs were displayed would freeze the MP front end ~50% of the time.
I googled around, couldn't find an answer, and so we learned to turn off subs before timeshifting.
I was using MP 1.6 very conventionally, as a single-seat OTA PVR (ATSC, I'm on mainland US) using mc2xml and grabbing subs from the OTA steam through the server config. I had a set of folders it scanned for external videos I downloaded into it, and a blu-ray player integrated into the build with PowerDVD 10 handling the decrypt-playback. It worked as a great front-end for everything but Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/HBOGo.
I saved a bunch of logs from the crash, but they were all on the OS drive that was reformatted last night. If it helps, I was using the standard release of K-Lite Codec Pack v10.something, which I installed before MP1.6 so that any codec-specific changes made by the install would stick. I default to ffdshow, and I tried all the different codec and filter options for video rendering, none helped. Also, this problem was only in MP. Using Media Player Home Cinema, we never had an issue with subs.
I recall from the logs that the error was related to the drawing, caching and clearing of 'graphs'. This thread might be related, but I don't know.
So here's my question: is this a known issue, and is there a way to handle it? Now that I'm reinstalling, I'm considering a different front end like Kodi. The thing is, I really don't want to switch from MP, especially since development has continued on MP1.
Sorry for the wall-o-text.