blank screen when exiting vid library after playing a mkv/xvid file in video library

[fdm225]

Hi Sub,

I am having the strangest problem! If I try to play a mkv file in the video library it will play fine but when I exit out (e.g. by pushing the back button on my mce remote) the screen goes (and stays) blank. The really weird thing is that if I push the remote's scroll buttons I can hear bleepbloop making sounds and once even have got it to perform actions (just with no picture at all). Any ideas?

I have attached the logs and am running the following config:
GBPVR .09.08.08
FDDSHOW codecs
standard blue skin

Thanks.

dave

[sub]

I dont use this type of file myself, but I can only guess its related to the decoder you're using. Is there a decoder other than ffdshow you can try?

[fdm225]

It's interesting because this worked fine with the previous version (97 I think). Hmm, I will have to look at codecs and see what is installed. I wouldn't have figured that the codecs could keep the program's gui from running?? is there a windows utilities to check/set the codecs for encoding type?

Dave

[sub]

If its only affecting this one file type, then its almost certainly the decoder (or MKV splitter). Do AVI files and MPEG files work fine?

[fdm225]

mpeg files are fine but ogm files have the same problem. I will have to find an avi to give it a shot.

Thanks for the reply!

dave

[sub]

You'll probably find that ogm file is also using ffdshow.

[fdm225]

You were absolutely right. I got rid of ffdshow and used a different splitter and it works great now.

thanks,
dave