avi's hang gbpvr

[jayk]

I had avi's playing fine with on both my computer and my mvp. While trying out the video archive plugin's dvd2mpg feature, I thought I'd see if I could also play an avi simultaneously to the mvp. It appeared to start, but then went directly back to the menu. I figured no big deal, not enough cpu or some other resource. Well after the dvd was done being converted I tried to play an avi on the mvp. No luck. I then tried on the computer directly. GBPVR gave me a black screen and hung up.

After lots of tinkering, I finally admitted defeat and used the installer to uninstall and reinstall GBPVR. Wow, avi's played. That was short lived. After setting the MVP server to boot automatically in the GBPVR config tool and selecting to display a few plugins that were already installed, I tried an avi on the mvp. It didn't seem to pick up the menu changes to display, but I didn't completely reboot the mvp, just the green button. Well it played about 10 seconds of avi and then went to the menu. Avi's stopped playing again.

I unistalled with the installer. Deleted all the files in devnz and rebooted the machine. I reinstalled gbpvr and now no avi's will play. I haven't even booted up the mvp yet.

Yes, avi's play fine with WMP and nero. And I have tried multiple avi's. My machine is running xp pro and is a p4 3.4Ghz, 1gb RAM, 600GB SATA raid 0 storage and 250GB eide storage.

Also, avi's play when booting up the mvp with the hauppauge software (lame compared to gbpvr!).

Any ideas. Attached is my gbpvr.exe.log file and config.xml file.

Thanks
Jay

[jayk]

Anybody? I tried using the Nero codecs. They work fine for mpeg, but I still have the hanging problem with avi.

[sub]

Playing AVI files on the MVP can be very problematic. The hardware can only natively play MPEG1 and MPEG2. To play AVI files, it needs to be converted to MPEG format on the fly. Many things can go wrong. Most problems that can occur are covered in this thread: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=4712

[jayk]

Actually, they wouldn't play on gbpvr native, but I finally got avi's to play. I downloaded both gspot to see which codecs where installed and graphedit to see which codecs where being used. No matter which codecs I selected in config, the intervideo codecs where being used according to graphedit. I uninstalled all intervideo software, and now avi's are being played. According to graphedit, the Xvid decoder is being used. This happens even if I select another codec in config.