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As my title says, lately when I'm watching XBMC, my computer will suddenly switch back to the desktop by itself as if XBMC is minimizing itself. Then, when I get up and switch it back to XBMC, the audio of the video that was playing seems to be out of sync by a few seconds (i.e. the amount of time it took me to switch it back). This then typically sorts itself out after a second or two of playing.
It's happening on a number of different videos (both movies and TV shows) and I cannot find any pattern other than the fact that this seems to happen once a day. I'm running Windows 7 and latest stable build of XBMC (9.11).
Any ideas what could be causing this? Is this more likely a Windows problem or an XBMC problem?
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Try enabling full screen window instead of true fullscreen. The setting is in the system video output section.
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Something is grabbing the focus. This is probably something in the tray displaying a notification.
By default XBMC uses DirectX fullscreen mode and this can't share the display with any other app. When something else grabs the focus XBMC is forced to minimise. The best solution is to find out what is grabbing the focus and stop it. A work around is thereddog's suggestion. Go to settings, System and enable "Use a fullscreen window rather than true fullscreen". Note however that will reduce video speed and may give you problems on high res videos.
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gfrobe
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Thanks. Will try the workaround but would rather try to find whatever it is that is pulling focus away from XBMC. There are no messages popping up in the system tray when this happens and I typically don't have any other programs running at the same time. Maybe something in the background is trying to update itself.
Will do some searching. Thanks.
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2010-08-12, 04:03
(This post was last modified: 2010-08-12, 04:05 by fincheresque.)
Naw, it's not XBMC, the exact same thing happens in MPC-HC if I _DONT_ use D3D Fullscreen. The only difference is that when XBMC loses focus, it appears to minimize, where as MPC-HC just drops to a window.
I just haven't been able to narrow down what's causing it. :-\
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This has been happening to me as well. Really annoying. I don't have anything elso running (except antivirus and eventghost). Anybody have any solutions yet?
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gfrobe
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I had traced it to java constantly checking for updates. I turned that off and problem disappeared but recently notice it happening again so will have to begin the search again. But check your java settings.
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I'm having this issue too. Any other hints?
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I have it too, and for me it is Yahoo that momentarily loses connection...
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pretty sure its therenamer part of couchpotato doing it for me. PITA it is too!
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Newbie to XBMC.
This is happening to me too, but only once after powering up then about 2 minutes into a movie. After restoring the screen it's fine from then on.
I can't trace it either. I'll write a windows event hook (using vb.net haha) and try and figure out whats going on. I'll report back if I figure it out.
