Playing videos from multimedia-video option

[LucasBarton]

For some reason, when I go to watch the videos I've added in the multimedia-video section, they will not play. A preview of them plays on the side perfectly fine, but when I select to watch the video, the screen goes black for a second, and then it comes right back to GameEX. I can see something mininize then maxmize in the black area, but I don't know what it is. I have FFDSHOW beta 2 installed. I've looked through like 10 pages of forum posts and can't find anything that will help. I've seen someone mention using the emulator setup for to play videos by changing the filter to avi, but surely there's got to be a better way than that. Also, when going through the list of folders in the video section, it displays a folder icon. Is there anyway to replace that with a photo, like a Seinfeld photo for the Seinfeld folder, etc. Any info would be great.

[iano]

For some reason, when I go to watch the videos I've added in the multimedia-video section, they will not play. A preview of them plays on the side perfectly fine, but when I select to watch the video, the screen goes black for a second, and then it comes right back to GameEX. I can see something mininize then maxmize in the black area, but I don't know what it is. I have FFDSHOW beta 2 installed. I've looked through like 10 pages of forum posts and can't find anything that will help. I've seen someone mention using the emulator setup for to play videos by changing the filter to avi, but surely there's got to be a better way than that. Also, when going through the list of folders in the video section, it displays a folder icon. Is there anyway to replace that with a photo, like a Seinfeld photo for the Seinfeld folder, etc. Any info would be great.

Have you tried unistalling ffdshow beta 2 and installing ffdshow 20051129 from the GameEX page ?

http://www.gameex.net/Download/Otherrecomm...83/Default.aspx

[LucasBarton]

Have you tried unistalling ffdshow beta 2 and installing ffdshow 20051129 from the GameEX page ?

http://www.gameex.net/Download/Otherrecomm...83/Default.aspx

That's the build that I was using at first. It will play a preview on the side of the screen of the video I'm trying to play, but when I select play, the screen goes black, something minimizes then maximizes then I end up back at the GameEX menu. I've tried four different builds of FFDSHOW and nothing works. I've tried going through the options in the multimedia/htpc section, but nothing will work. I don't see why it will show a preview but not play it when I select play. It shouldn't be a codec problem or a player problem.

[LB11]

What kind of video is it?

[LucasBarton]

None of them will play fullscreen. Avi, mpeg, ogm, divx, xvid, nothing. It will play the previews on the side fine except the ogm files, but it will not play anything fullscreen like it should.

[LucasBarton]

Well, I just updated to the latest version of GameEX that Tom just released and the videos are working great now, including the OGM files now. All I needed to do was install an OGM codec. Thanks for the great work, Tom.

It would still be nice if there were a way to replace the folder icon with a picture of what each folder contained when you go down the list of videos in the multimedia section. Like I said before, a picture of the Seinfeld crew for the Seinfeld folder, a picture of the Transfomers for the Transformers folder, etc. Is there a way to do this?