2009-02-05, 22:44
Dannydeman Wrote:I really want to give this a try, but it seems I have a big problem. Video in MPC-HC is very choppy, but the CPU is like 4% since it uses DXVA. When I close xbmc.exe in the taskmgr, everything plays fine. So there is something in XBMC whats conflicting with something in MPC-HC.
BlueSpam Wrote:Dannydeman, I started to see the same behavior you're reporting with MPC-HC after I upgraded to the latest SVN build. I worked around it since I use a script to start MPC, by killing xbmc, starting MPC, and then restarting xbmc when MPC finishes. Only drawback is that I'm back on the main menu, but it's not a huge crisis since I only use the external player for my 1080p videos. Something definitely changed recently however, since a few builds earlier xbmc was running in the background but mpc was working flawlessly...
Something did change. In my last version of the path I tried to avoid locking the graphicscontext while the externalplayer was running as that was what was still causing some people issues with the externalplayer being behind XBMC. When I get some time to work on it, the next version will go back to locking the context but after a user-configurable time (the delay needs to be long enough to allow the externalplayer window to open and bring itself to the front but not so long as the still-running XBMC causes the issue you're seeing now at the start of the video).
I'm also looking at providing a way for externalplayers that support it to playback DVD folder structures.