[kawal]

My problem is XBMC will not play Video. If I press pause / play it will make the movie play for 5 s and stop again. Rewind and fast forward plays fine on x32 speed. I am trying to play DVD backups (SD Mpeg2) from a server. I have another machine with Phenon x2 and it plays everything fine. Also have a dual xeon (daul P4 Gallatin 3.2/2M/533 with 2GB ram and ati X1) 3.2Ghz and plays everything great. But my new computer (Dell 740) will not play the movies right. All movies are stored on a server (fedora) and connects with samba.

I tried downloading the movie to the desktop and playing it from the desktop but I get the same result. The download happens fast ~40MB/s which is limited by the slow HDD (80GB). Other machines on my network can download/upload up to 120MB/s to the server. So I dont think the problem is with the server.

Here is my configuration
Win 7 64Bit
Athlon X2 5600+
1gb ram
Win 7 64bitg
Nvidia N430/6150 chipset
Ati HD4650 video card.

If I turn debugging on I see the frame rate go from 60 frame/s to 9.9 frames (CPU at ~3%) when I want to play a movie. When I press pause/play the frame rate goes to 24 for 8 seconds and plays the movie and then stops again. If I press pause / play again it will not play it again. If I skip to another location and then press pause/ play if will play another 8s. If a FF I see the FF movie.

I tried this with 2gb of RAm but I get the same result.
Tried without the Ati card and get the same result but more CPU usage (~60%).


I tried uninstalling XBMC and reinstalling it the result was the same. Tried Nightly build Direct X - same result (but first needed Directx install from MS cause it cried about missing DLL's).

I am almost giving up on XBMC on this setup.


Any help would be great.


here is a part of the log file sorted for error or warning - maybe this will help troubleshoot?

22:01:16 T:3544 M:3508887552 ERROR: DirectSoundCreate() Failed (0x88780078)
22:01:25 T:3544 M:3478712320 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:01:25 T:2980 M:3478536192 WARNING: CDVDInputStreamNavigator::SetNavigatorState - Failed to set state (Vi rtual DVD machine not started.), retrying after read
22:01:26 T:2980 M:3463827456 WARNING: could not find codec parameters for O:\Movies\DVD MAIN TITLE\10000_BC \VIDEO_TS\VIDEO_TS.IFO
22:01:26 T:2980 M:3463790592 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:01:26 T:2980 M:3463790592 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:01:26 T:2980 M:3454361600 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:01:26 T:2980 M:3454361600 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:01:26 T:2980 M:3454361600 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:01:26 T:2980 M:3454361600 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:01:26 T:2980 M:3454361600 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:01:26 T:2980 M:3454361600 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:01:26 T:2980 M:3453841408 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:01:26 T:3496 M:3447861248 ERROR: DirectSoundCreate() Failed (0x88780078)
22:01:26 T:3496 M:3448664064 ERROR: CThread:taticThread : Access violation at 0x004a749f: Reading locat ion 0x00000000
22:01:43 T:1620 M:3454627840 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Get - asked for new data packet, with nothin g available
22:01:46 T:3544 M:3457736704 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player):ut MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
22:01:46 T:3544 M:3458277376 ERROR: DirectSoundCreate() Failed (0x88780078)

[kawal]

I did not plug in the audio jack - as soon as I did XBMC plays all files fine. This is very strange but it solved my issue.