(2013-02-04, 10:36)ZeroTonight Wrote: Everything was working fine, but after I upgraded to Frodo from Eden 1/2 the time when i play videos, the screen is black, sound playing, and i see a partial waiting to load circle in the center. I dont have a crash report, because xbmc doesn't crash, the video i can hear plays fine behind this black screen. If i force quit, it briefly plays 1-3 seconds of the video perfectly before disappearing.
Is it always the same videos that work and don't work ?
This sounds like a problem I was having in Eden, so it may still exist in Frodo.
When I first installed Eden on my PC roughly half my videos would not play, I'd get a black screen with just the progress spinner in the bottom right corner displayed (but frozen) and the audio of the movie would be playing, I'd then have to end task the whole app. It was always the same videos that had trouble, including some playing via Add-ons.
It turned out to be a bug with "Adjust display rate to match video" - if that is enabled, depending on your output device (s-video in my case) it will sometimes try to switch the display into a refresh rate that matches the video file but the display doesn't support thus the blank screen.
In Frodo the same setting is System -> Video -> Playback -> "Adjust display refresh rate to match video".
Where is the bug you ask ? The bug is that the GUI after a fresh install says that the setting is off, but in fact it is ON. To fix the problem I had to turn the setting ON in the GUI and then back OFF again, then it was really off and all my videos started playing properly and I never had the problem again.
I don't know if this GUI bug is still there in Frodo but I would suggest try turning the above setting on, exit from the settings menu (or perhaps even the whole program) then go back in and turn it off again. See if that helps...
