"Play Selection Music" causes GameEx to freeze

[Smocca]

This is a strange error I've been having. I downloaded some music to play while browsing through games (various N64 game soundtracks for my N64 section) but using this feature causes GameEx to lockup. It does this only when videos are enabled. And really it only does it when I browse to another video. When I initially go to the emulator page, the first video plays fine and the music starts up as it should, but once I scroll down to another game with a video snap GameEx becomes completely unresponsive (though the video and music still play).

I am able to use ambient music without any problems whatsoever. I'm a registered user. I have audio turned off for my video snaps. I've tried many different music files (though all were .mp3s). I've tried the codecs provided on this site, CCCP and k-lite and they all result in the same issue. I've even tried this on two separate computers and get the same results (both use Windows Vista (one is x64 Ultimate and one is x32 Home Basic)).

I'm assuming its a Vista issue, but I figured I would throw this up here just incase someone knows of a possible fix. I would love to get this feature working.

[bkenobi]

Perhaps you could post your log file. I doubt it will show anything interesting, but it might be useful. I suspect this has something to do with conflicting codecs. The video codec is trying to play a video with sound and then you try to play another sound. The sound codec (or perhaps the sound hardware) doesn't want to let the second play because it's already in use. I'm not sure if there is a setting for this in the video codec though. My suggestion would be to turn off sound for video snaps ATM.

[Smocca]

  bkenobi said:

Perhaps you could post your log file. I doubt it will show anything interesting, but it might be useful. I suspect this has something to do with conflicting codecs. The video codec is trying to play a video with sound and then you try to play another sound. The sound codec (or perhaps the sound hardware) doesn't want to let the second play because it's already in use. I'm not sure if there is a setting for this in the video codec though. My suggestion would be to turn off sound for video snaps ATM.

Thanks for the reply. Here's the log. I can't see anything in it that would point to a problem. I've had sound turned off the the video snaps the whole time. I agree it sounds like a codec problem but changing them doesn't seem to effect much of anything.

It's not a huge deal, I can live without specific background music, but I'm really curious why it doesn't work. Arcade Ambiance works perfectly fine.

log.txt

[Smocca]

I've been playing around with another theme (I use a slightly modified Blue Glass theme usually but was testing out Valhalla) and I noticed that the music and videos were working in my N64 section. I could navigate through videos and the music kept right on playing without a hitch. It seems very strange that my theme is the cause of my freezing up.

The key difference between them I guess is that Blue Glass uses larger videos (same video files obviously, but stretched to fit more of the screen area). I'm going to switch back to Blue Glass and just turn the music off, but I was hoping this might give someone a clue to what exactly my problem is and how to fix it.

Any ideas?

[bkenobi]

There are some weird things that can happen with some of the themes. I don't fully understand why, but when you have an odd error, switching the theme can sometimes fix or at least ferret out the cause. I've tried building my own theme for a driving cabinet (which looked like crap thank you), but changing one or two seemingly innocuous settings can really screw things up.