I have somehow screwed up DVDPlayer & Mplayer in XBMC

Venom · Post by **Venom** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 3:47 pm

As of right now in XBMC, DVDPlayer plays video perfectly, but has no audio. Mplayer has audio , but the video is all gray with sometimes a flicker of giant pixels that lets you see the video playing underneath. It was working great just a day ago. Everything was working fine and I must have downloaded something new and screwed it up. Any ideas on how to fix this? I have a second XBOX set up the same way and it is playing fine. If I want to do a complete reinstall of XBMC, what are all the files and locations I would have to delete in order to remove all traces of XBMC, Plugins, Scripts,Scriptmodules, etc.....? Thanks for any help.

Post by **BuZz** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 4:04 pm

I have posted some information about debug logs now. Please read http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewt ... p?f=6&t=65 and provide a debug log. thanks.

Post by **BuZz** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 4:09 pm

in regards to a fresh install - it depends where you can installed it. also is it your dash ? It might be in E:/Apps/XBMC or F:/Apps/XBMC for example. to remove it, boot to another dash and delete the entire folder etc.

Venom · Post by **Venom** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 4:37 pm

here is the log. Thanks for your help.

http://pastebin.com/E6eJT9YN

Post by **BuZz** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:00 pm

You have digital audio out connected (and are using it) ? what settings do you have for audio out / what your amp supports?

the reason mplayer can't handle it is the file is too new for mplayer. I suspect the dvdplayer audio is a wrong setting in the audio config.

Venom · Post by **Venom** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:29 pm

BuZz wrote:You have digital audio out connected (and are using it) ? what settings do you have for audio out / what your amp supports?

the reason mplayer can't handle it is the file is too new for mplayer. I suspect the dvdplayer audio is a wrong setting in the audio config.

I am using component out with optical audio out. It is going into a new Sony Receiver that can accept and decode and play pretty much everything. I would agree with you that it is some audio setting. I never changed any settings from when it worked until it stopped working. But, I did download some script modules that claimed to help with getting some files to play audio. Problem is I cannot remember which were the ones I downloaded for audio. I also had downloaded some scripts and plugins.
These are my settings. Is the audio config in the menus or someplace else?

Post by **BuZz** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:38 pm

uncheck aac/mp1/2/3 and the downmix setting

(don't enable stuff your receiver doesnt support - and dont downmix if you have digital receiver - just use the stereo mode on receiver etc if you have only 2.1 audio)

Venom · Post by **Venom** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:00 pm

BuZz wrote:uncheck aac/mp1/2/3 and the downmix setting

(don't enable stuff your receiver doesnt support - and dont downmix if you have digital receiver - just use the stereo mode on receiver etc if you have only 2.1 audio)

Ok, It's working. It must have been the AAC audio. Funny thing is I only went into those settings once to pick Digital Audio and everything has been working fine for weeks.
I would have never thought to change anything in there. Thanks for the help!

One more question. I had made another post asking if upgrading the CPU & Memory would help with MKV playback. Would it? I know for the cost I could probably build a small PC instead.

Post by **BuZz** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:06 pm

Venom wrote:
BuZz wrote:uncheck aac/mp1/2/3 and the downmix setting

(don't enable stuff your receiver doesnt support - and dont downmix if you have digital receiver - just use the stereo mode on receiver etc if you have only 2.1 audio)
Ok, It's working. It must have been the AAC audio. Funny thing is I only went into those settings once to pick Digital Audio and everything has been working fine for weeks.
I would have never thought to change anything in there. Thanks for the help!

One more question. I had made another post asking if upgrading the CPU & Memory would help with MKV playback. Would it? I know for the cost I could probably build a small PC instead.

maybe you never played anything with 2channel aac audio until now. I'm probably going to disable some of those settings as they are untested

I'm sure upgrading the CPU will help with playback somewhat for things like h264. Memory wont speed things up, but allow for heavier skins perhaps although I don't have a 128mb machine for development so I've never been able to test.

Personally for the cost of upgrading the CPU, I would spend my money on a small htpc or something which could do full 1080p res h264 etc.

Xander5 · Post by **Xander5** » Sat Jul 14, 2012 7:07 pm

In regards to the fresh install, I always boot XBMC into error recovery mode, delete the E:\Apps\XBMC folder and replace it with the new version

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