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Title: DVD Playback Disables Aero Glass (SOLVED)
Post by: benn600 on February 24, 2007, 03:40:03 pm

Is this just my computer or do other people have this issue?  When I start playing a DVD, even if it doesn't jump to fullscreen, Vista immediately disables Aero Glass and goes to the plain, opaque theme.  When I close MC, it returns to Aero Glass.

Title: Re: DVD Playback Disables Aero Glass
Post by: aksdb on February 24, 2007, 07:54:52 pm

That's normal Vista-behavior. (depending on how the program render graphics)

Title: Re: DVD Playback Disables Aero Glass
Post by: benn600 on February 24, 2007, 08:28:36 pm

It's a horrible normal Vista-behavior.

With two monitors, I see the change on my second monitor and it doesn't return until I restart MC.  It's annoying!

Title: Re: DVD Playback Disables Aero Glass
Post by: aksdb on February 25, 2007, 06:05:47 am

It usually safes a lot of performance. The main purpose is of course for games. But an OS hardly can separate a game from a "normal" application. And believe me ... without disabling Aero in some cases, you would begin to hate Vista ;)

Title: Re: DVD Playback Disables Aero Glass
Post by: trott on March 25, 2007, 11:52:41 am

I'm not sure this is related to dvd playback. I get the prompt about vista disabling aero at seemingly random moments, even when nothing's playing. When I'm not even playing any video, surely vista shouldn't have any problems with aero?

Title: Re: DVD Playback Disables Aero Glass
Post by: BartMan01 on March 25, 2007, 12:57:14 pm

This is NOT 'normal' Vista behaviour.  If I play a DVD with WMP11 or Media Player Classic, Aero remains.  If I play the DVD through MC12 I get a compatibility warning and Vista drops out of Aero.

Title: Re: DVD Playback Disables Aero Glass
Post by: benn600 on March 25, 2007, 04:06:35 pm

Thank you!  That is exactly what I notice.  VLC plays full screen video without any issues, such as disabling aero.  Does this happen for others?  It is especially annoying with multiple monitors because then I work in a non-aero environment until I close MC!

I never see aero close unless I start playing video in MC.  My computers is fast enough to not randomly say, uhoo, I guess I'm not fast enough once you actually start using me!

Title: Re: DVD Playback Disables Aero Glass
Post by: Matt on March 25, 2007, 06:43:29 pm

Simply switch the video mixer MC uses for DVD playback.

VMR 9 and EVR will work with aero.  Some filters don't like these newer modes, so the MC default is to use overlay mixing.

Look in Options > Playback > DVD playback settings...

Title: Re: DVD Playback Disables Aero Glass (SOLVED)
Post by: trott on March 26, 2007, 03:14:17 am

Matt,

As I mentioned, I also get this error but when playing audio files. Could this be due to a visualisation? I haven't found settings to set the renderer for the visualisations...(i'm using clean'n tidy2)