Video Bug

[realyst]

Not sure if this has been brought up before(a search pulled nothing in any case, sorry if I missed it), but there appears I ran into a glitch playing video. I essentially get the video working fine, but then I hear two versions of the audio(like one person singing 2 secs behind another person). Even if I quit the video, I still hear the echoed audio(except now I hear it behind the ambient sound file).

I have to bring up task manager and kill the GamEx.exe process even though I've exited Gamex normally to stop the sound from the phantom twin video.

Running XP on both machines, they share a common workgroup, and are communicating via wifi. One video was in standard divx, another using a matroska container and vobsub to subtitle an xvid encoded file. Both of these behaved identically.

Using registered version.

system specs:

2400+ AMD CPU, cheap cbit board

onboard sound

Asus A9250 Radeon card with updated catalyst drivers

XP Pro SP2

802.11G DLink wireless card

I should also note Media Player plays everything fine. The problem seems isolated to Gamex. It seems to dual-launch the video file. One you see and one you don't and just stays in memory(and audio).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Brian Hoffman]

Not sure if this has been brought up before(a search pulled nothing in any case, sorry if I missed it), but there appears I ran into a glitch playing video. I essentially get the video working fine, but then I hear two versions of the audio(like one person singing 2 secs behind another person). Even if I quit the video, I still hear the echoed audio(except now I hear it behind the ambient sound file).

I have to bring up task manager and kill the GamEx.exe process even though I've exited Gamex normally to stop the sound from the phantom twin video.

Running XP on both machines, they share a common workgroup, and are communicating via wifi. One video was in standard divx, another using a matroska container and vobsub to subtitle an xvid encoded file. Both of these behaved identically.

Using registered version.

system specs:

2400+ AMD CPU, cheap cbit board

onboard sound

Asus A9250 Radeon card with updated catalyst drivers

XP Pro SP2

802.11G DLink wireless card

I should also note Media Player plays everything fine. The problem seems isolated to Gamex. It seems to dual-launch the video file. One you see and one you don't and just stays in memory(and audio).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Are the video files stored on the local drive or is it mapped across the network?

[Brian Hoffman]

Not sure if this has been brought up before(a search pulled nothing in any case, sorry if I missed it), but there appears I ran into a glitch playing video. I essentially get the video working fine, but then I hear two versions of the audio(like one person singing 2 secs behind another person). Even if I quit the video, I still hear the echoed audio(except now I hear it behind the ambient sound file).

I have to bring up task manager and kill the GamEx.exe process even though I've exited Gamex normally to stop the sound from the phantom twin video.

Running XP on both machines, they share a common workgroup, and are communicating via wifi. One video was in standard divx, another using a matroska container and vobsub to subtitle an xvid encoded file. Both of these behaved identically.

Using registered version.

system specs:

2400+ AMD CPU, cheap cbit board

onboard sound

Asus A9250 Radeon card with updated catalyst drivers

XP Pro SP2

802.11G DLink wireless card

I should also note Media Player plays everything fine. The problem seems isolated to Gamex. It seems to dual-launch the video file. One you see and one you don't and just stays in memory(and audio).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Are the video files stored on the local drive or is it mapped across the network?

Being in a workgroup isnt very spectacular and most liklely no the problem....Unless the video is being pulled from a shared resource.

[realyst]

Are the video files stored on the local drive or is it mapped across the network?

Sorry about the topic description: it turns out the network had nothing to do with it as I originally thought. Locally stored video behaves the same way. I just don't know how to edit the topic description(if even possible).

[realyst]

Sorry about the topic description: it turns out the network had nothing to do with it as I originally thought. Locally stored video behaves the same way. I just don't know how to edit the topic description(if even possible).

Turns out it gets even stranger.

It plays the first file in the folder as the phantom noise then proceeds to play the selected file visibly. When you exit out of Gamex, it stops the selected file, but the phantom first-file-in-folder keeps playing under the Gamex.exe process(until you task mangle it out of there)

[realyst]

I found out what it is.

The video was set the "preview" and I guess(at least for the NextGen animated theme) that means you hear the entire audio track of the first highlighted video(and no video thumbnail).

So maybe this is a bug?

I turned preview off and it works great now:)

[Brian Hoffman]

I found out what it is.

The video was set the "preview" and I guess(at least for the NextGen animated theme) that means you hear the entire audio track of the first highlighted video(and no video thumbnail).

So maybe this is a bug?

I turned preview off and it works great now:)

Glad to hear you got it sorted...

BTW..You cannot edit topic description

[realyst]

BTW..You cannot edit topic description

Thanks, I'll remember that for next time;)

Though I must say that this and the Mame32 exe it downloaded causing illegal operations(I think the download just got cut short by the wifi, downloading it manually fixed it right up) are the only problems I've run across. I don't think I've had that easy a time setting up an HTPC before(having tried Meedio, MyHTPC, MediaPortal, Nero Home and MS MCE).