No playback (black screen)

[aseibert]

I am not able to play any of the recordings in NPVR. I'm just getting a black screen when I attempt to play anything. This just started all of a sudden a few days ago. I have not installed or changed anything on the machine for several months. It appears that Windows did an update (Win 7 64 bit) at about the same time though. IE 10 was installed along with a couple of Windows updates. I'm attaching a log.

[whurlston]

You are using the MS video decoder which was included in the IE 10 upgrade and the new version broke compatibility. See http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post454973 for a patch to restore compatibility between NPVR and the MS decoder.

[aseibert]

Thank you! The patch seems to be working.

[mikeh49]

Does this mean that the IE10 upgrade will break the MS video decoder for MPEG2 in Win 7? I understood that the patch only affected h.264 playback. Does this now extend to MPEG2 under 7?

This seems to have been only a Win 8 issue, until now.

[Zeb]

I wondered about that too Mike. However aseibert's first-ever thread sought help for a Colossus, which does hardware h.264 encoding.

[mikeh49]

Good point. That makes it more clear. I'm still going to avoid IE10.

[whurlston]

Honestly, I didn't even think about MPEG-2/4. I just checked the logs to see if a video decoder was even being loaded, saw that it was loading the MS decoder and saw IE10 in his post.

Re Win 8 issue until now: Windows 8 ships with IE10 which was why it never worked with Win8 until the patch. Only recently was IE10 pushed as an update to Win7.

[mvallevand]

Does this mean that the IE10 upgrade will break the MS video decoder for MPEG2 in Win 7? I understood that the patch only affected h.264 playback. Does this now extend to MPEG2 under 7?

It was only an h264 issue for me.

Martin