Vista and EVR Support - Part 2 (1 Viewer)

[spinmar]

Ok, thanks for your explanation.
Did you install the MS update http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935878/en-us for EVR?

 

[Darre]

Im not sure.. If it gets installed automatically then yes. My Mediaportal PC updates itself every night at 03:00.

 

[Eabin]

i don't have the hotfix installed, and use Vista Business too. I did purchase the Microsoft Codec, which is sold by sonic IIRC. and yes, dxva2 works in all versions of Vista.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

No sign of that update on my Vista machine, recommend checking your evr.dll version against that one, as sounds like a good update to have.

 

[spinmar]

So it seems that nobody has this hot fix installed
Ok I'll install it if I have some problems ...
This evening I'll set PowerDVD in tv section as video codec.
Best regards

 

[Sven]

hey sven, i finally came around to looking at your logfiles.

Thanks!

there is one thing that might indicate a problem:

31-10-2007 18:05:17.939 [b5c]Presenting sample
31-10-2007 18:05:21.249 [e98]Processmessage: 2, 00000000

there is a gap of more than 3 seconds between two log entries at the above point. this may corrupt the rendering pipeline. i have no idea where this may come from. are you automatically synchronizing windows with some time-service which could alter the system time while MP is running?

At the moment, I'm not using automatic time synchronization and as far as I remember it was disabled when this log file was created, too. Besides, the built-in Windows time synchronization (which is the only one I ever used on this installation) only synchronizes once a week but the error occurs way more often (at least with the version WITHOUT extensive logging).
I guess the fact that extensive logging mitigates the problem also suggests there is a different cause (but I'm no MediaPortal/DirectX/EVR expert).

other than that, it would be interesting what the other logfiles say at this point in time (especially mediaportal.log).

I've already posted MediaPortal.log (in the same post you downloaded my vmr9.log file from). However, here's an extract:

2007-10-31 18:05:17.915015 [Info.][11]: PlaneScene: src        : (0,0)-(544,576)
2007-10-31 18:05:17.918015 [Info.][11]: PlaneScene: dst        : (533,194)-(1155,646)
2007-10-31 18:05:19.677015 [Info.][MPMain]: VMR9Helper: playing->repaint 0
2007-10-31 18:05:21.250015 [Info.][11]: planescene: PresentSurface() frame:0 enabled:True allowed:False 544x576
2007-10-31 18:05:21.252015 [Info.][11]: planescene: PresentSurface() frame:1 enabled:True allowed:False 544x576

The respective extract of error.log:

2007-10-31 18:04:07.943015 [ERROR][10]: PlaneScene: re-entrancy in presentimage
2007-10-31 18:05:21.280015 [ERROR][MPMain]: Planescene(544,576,1003,729,9694336,True,8):Unhandled exception in Fehler in der Anwendung. Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D    bei Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device.PresentInternal(tagRECT* sourceRectangle, tagRECT* destRectangle, IntPtr overrideWindow)
   bei Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device.PresentInternal(tagRECT* sourceRectangle, tagRECT* destRectangle, Control overrideWindow)
   bei Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device.Present()
   bei MediaPortal.Player.PlaneScene.InternalPresentSurface(Int32 width, Int32 height, Int32 arWidth, Int32 arHeight, Boolean InRepaint)

Could the line "VMR9Helper: playing->repaint 0" have something to do with this? It was written to the log during the three-seconds gap you mentioned above.



Sven

 

[spinmar]

Very good

Hi,
yesterday I applied the MS EVR patch which I reported in previuos message.
My EVR.dll has version 5.0.x while the new EVR.dll is 6.0.6000.20583.
The install was ok.
Then I modified the tv section codec setting PowerDVD7 as video/audio codec and I selected EVR in direct show.
Then I restart mediaportal and I have to say: very good
The image was brilliant without any kind of problem.
Only in one channel the audio was intermittent but I suppose that it was a channel problem.
Best regards

 

[MadDuke]

Could someone please explain to me whether or not you need some extra evr.dll or patch (like spinmar mentions)

I was planning to do a clean install of my Vista x64 (+ 'normal updates') now that MP 0.2.3 has been released, but it seems it won't be enough just to tick the 'EVR box' in config (or what?)

bwt. - can I expect nvidias purevide to support this EVR in the near furture, or is 'PowerDVD7' king-of-hill for a while now?

/MadDuke

 

[Eabin]

you don't need to install the extra hotfix, at least i don't have it installed, and i am not experiencing any problems (at least none that would be fixable by some special vista-update). so ticking the box should be just fine.

about the nvidia decoder: AFAIK, they stopped developing it a while back in favour of implementing a standard (DXVA2) which i very much prefer. this way it is possible for open source codecs like ffdshow to implement support for hardware acceleration in the future.

sven, it seems to me that your troubles may be related to the exception printed in your error.log. i will try to find the cause of it. (unfortunately i'm quite short of time atm).

 

[Sven]

sven, it seems to me that your troubles may be related to the exception printed in your error.log. i will try to find the cause of it. (unfortunately i'm quite short of time atm).

Thanks! I'll wait for your answer. Good luck!

Sven