DVD black screen if played first.

[re-Barr]

I have had an issue going on for the past couple weeks where my wife would call me and tell me that she could not see the DVD when she would play it. So I would tell her to reboot the computer and I would check it out when I got home and everything would seem fine.

Well tonight I realized what is happening. If I play the dvd first after PVRX2 is started then the video would not appear. Audio would be there and if you can figure out what you were doing (i.e. remember if you have a resume screen up) then you can navigate with the buttons. This goes for a first time viewing a DVD or not. However if I watch anything else recorded or live then the DVD works fine. And I can turn on the other videos and immediately back out and the dvd will work fine.

I have tried Cyberlink Video/SP Decoder and Dscaler I even added ffdshow in the config.xml file just to see if it would reproduce it and it did it also.

I had another DVD drive lying around so I tried swapping the drives for good measure. No change.

I am using GBPVR 1.3.11. And so far the only thing I have added is the skin blue-retro-SHV

Other specs would be:
Windows XP SP2
Dell Optiplex GX280 P4 2.8GHz
1Gig RAM
Hauppaugge 1600
Nvidia 7600GS

[whurlston]

In the ffdshow video decoder configuration, select "Codecs", then go to the bottom of the list and disable "Raw video" and see if that makes a difference.

[dalabera]

Same thing happens to me. What I do is I have to exit to the main menu and try again. Haven't done any research yet of what could be the problem.....

[re-Barr]

The raw video was already disabled in ffdshow.
Also, I am currently using the cyberlink codec for DVD becuase it looks the best on my setup.

I was about to ask if possibly it was related to me using EVR as my playback renderer but I see that dalabera is using VMR9.

[whurlston]

I don't think so. The log files show that the ffdshow Raw Video filter is being loaded into every graph and I suspect that is causing your issue. Do you have "Use ffdshow post processing" enabled in Config.exe? If so, try disabling it.

[re-Barr]

Yes, I did have ffdshow post processing enabled. And disabling it seems to have fixed the issue.

Thanks for the help, whurlston.

[dalabera]

Well I've spent the last 2 days trying to solve this issue. Most of the times at first it does not play. The best way it plays my dvd if I go and play a movie from my library and they go the dvd and play it.
It looks like something needs to be initialize prior using the DVD.

[whurlston]

Zip and post your pvrx2.*.log files after reproducing the problem.