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Black screen when playing a second MPEG4 file

Details

  • Severity:
    Major
  • Version:
    0.9.21
  • Operating System:
    Ubuntu
  • Number of attachments:
    1

Description

Having already played all or part of an MPEG4 video and then playing a second MPEG4 video (DivX/XviD), the playback screen is black (sound still plays). Logs show nothing unusual. Can be fixed by bringing up the OSD and changing the video scaling method - video kicks in immediately.

Sometimes playing a second video results in the video being cropped, flipped and stuck in one corner (taking up roughly a quarter of the page).

I'm guessing this could be an nvidia driver issue as it seems specific to vdpau capable cards.

There's no problems playing a second h.264 video after an MPEG4 is fine. Weird huh?

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Ami Ben-David [Boxee] added a comment -
Please enable the advanced settings log
Boxee Settings> System> Debug, change Debug level to DEBUG,
Restart Boxee, and after experiencing the problem, close Boxee and attach your log file to the bug.

do you also manage to play them on XBMC?
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Ami Ben-David [Boxee] added a comment - Please enable the advanced settings log Boxee Settings> System> Debug, change Debug level to DEBUG, Restart Boxee, and after experiencing the problem, close Boxee and attach your log file to the bug. do you also manage to play them on XBMC?
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RC added a comment - - edited
Here's my log. I hope this helps. My process was:

Open Boxee
Load "Family Guy Movie"
go back to movies
Load "Objectified"
-Movie is then flipped and off the bottom left corner OR just black sometimes-
Loaded video properties
Cycled through Scaling properties
-Fixed-
Exited Boxee


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RC added a comment - - edited Here's my log. I hope this helps. My process was: Open Boxee Load "Family Guy Movie" go back to movies Load "Objectified" -Movie is then flipped and off the bottom left corner OR just black sometimes- Loaded video properties Cycled through Scaling properties -Fixed- Exited Boxee
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee] added a comment -
This appears to be fixed in version 1.2
We will be releasing a new PC/Mac/Ubuntu in the fall.
Please test with this new version and if this is still occurring please open a new ticket.
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Rafael Mizrahi [Boxee] added a comment - This appears to be fixed in version 1.2 We will be releasing a new PC/Mac/Ubuntu in the fall. Please test with this new version and if this is still occurring please open a new ticket.

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    Reporter:
    Ben Lancaster
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