1 Reply by comlogical

(3 replies, posted in Using SVP)

CLinfo crashed, as well.

During Trial #5, I used DriverSweeper to remove the old drivers and Window's Programs & Features to uninstall the related software. It took a number of tries to get it to finally accept the older driver (2011).

I'm inclined to think that the new motherboard/cpu are to blame for the crashing, but then again, maybe the drivers were "reloaded" for the video card when detected by the new hardware.

It appears if a driver remover couldn't do the job than formatting may be the only option... one I'll have to take when I'm feeling venturesome.

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2 Topic by comlogical

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Problem:
After upgrading hardware, SVP would no longer work.

SVP worked with:
AMD 4670
AMD Phenom 9750
AM2+ Motherboard
3x1GB DDR2 800

Upgraded to:
AMD 4670 (no change)
AMD Phenom II 965 x4
AM3 Motherboard
2x4GB DDR3 1600

Symptoms:
When executed, the SVP yellow arrow icon appears in the task bar. Immediately, it turns to aqua/blue and spins akin to when SVP detects a video. Shortly thereafter, the arrow stops spinning (stops around the 5:00 position), followed by a windows crash notification "SVP.Mgr.exe has stopped working". There is no error log produced. All symptoms and trials below are 100% repeatable, no exceptions.

Trials:
1.) Uninstalled SVP and tried to reinstall. At the user-agreement page during the installation process, the installer would crash once the countdown (up?) reached 3/3.
2.) Tried installing a prior version of SVP. The latest version that would install was 3.06/3.07, all others crashed. Upon trying to run 3.06/3.07, the program would follow the same above symptoms.
3.) Booted into safe-mode and installed 3.1.3 successfully. The install program would execute without crashing, as well as SVPMgr.exe. Back in "normal" windows, SVP would crash upon execution.
4.) Figuring that a program was preventing SVP from running (it worked in safe-mode), I started killing processes in task monitor and services in msconfig one at a time, try to run SVP, and then kill another. Nothing seemed to work... but I may have missed something.
5.) Try new/old graphics drivers. Upon uninstalling the drivers in Device Manager, SVP would execute without crashing... but, alas, without graphics drivers nothing runs very smooth. After a large number of attempts, I got an older version (2011) of the AMD/ATi drivers installed for the graphics card. Didn't work.

Work Around:
6.) Disable graphics card in Device Manager. Execute SVP and doesn't crash. Reenable graphics card. SVP stays open and works as it should.

It appears that once the graphics drivers are out of the question OR windows is using the default graphics drivers SVP will stay open and not crash. I'm trying to avoid formatting the drive to see if that resolves the issue.

Thoughts?

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3 Reply by comlogical

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MAG79 wrote:

comlogical
Can you tell details about of this "some manual selecting"?

After following the guides provided by other SVP users, if DSPlayer is not the default player you highlight the desired movie, hit 'C' for the context menu, select "play using...", and then select DSPlayer.

http://imageshack.us/a/img89/2824/contextmenu.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img832/552/choicel.jpg

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4 Reply by comlogical

(59 replies, posted in Using SVP)

MAG79
For clarification: SVP and XBMC are now talking correctly... with some manual selecting in XBMC. Thanks.

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5 Reply by comlogical

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Thanks Mag, I did see that.

You know what's dumb. After reading through one of the many semi-related threads again (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?pi … 3pid975895), I became aware that in the context ('C') menu you can select "Play using..." which allows the user to select which player to use in XBMC (dsplayer, dvdplayer). For whatever reason, dvdplayer is labeled as being the default player despite defining it in advancedsettings.xml. Upon selecting dsplayer in the menu, SVP kicks in.

Let it be known to all lurking... check the context menu in XBMC.

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6 Reply by comlogical

(59 replies, posted in Using SVP)

I greatly enjoy SVP, but I too want to get it working with XBMC. I've been watching this thread since its creation seeking to find the answers I seek.

However, after long hours of trying the above mentioned steps I still can't get them working together. As it stands, no matter what configuration I try I cannot get SVP to recognize ffdshow video ("Waiting for ffshow video") while playing a video in XBMC. Whereas, there is no issue with smooth playback in Media Player Classic. I've tried the aforementioned, both the non-LAV and LAV versions. I have also tried configuring Media Player Classic as detailed in http://www.svp-team.com/wiki/%D0%9D%D0% … ow:_MPC-HC to see if that makes a difference.

I guess what I'm looking for are troubleshooting tips that can clarify where the two are not communicating. For example, to determine if you meet the DSPlayer version of XBMC requirement, navigate to System->Video in XBMC and a DSPlayer option should be visible. Beyond that, I don't know who and what are not talking.

Any ideas, help?

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