Have been testing MC, with playing video in different zones.
Can anyone pls explain how or if possible, is there a limitation with MC?
I'm testing on a Pent-4 -3GHz HT with 512Mb, 80Gb SATA and matrox G450 PCI + Radeon 9550 AGP. Both cards are dual head, so 2 video outputs from each card. With a multi-audio sound card - Echo Gina24 (PCI) with 4 audio analogue audio outputs.
Zone number 1 - setup to use 1 audio out from Gina, playing music (mp3) and music video (mpg)
Zone number 2 - setup to use another audio out from Gina, playing another music video, no mp3
Zone number 3 - uses another audio out from Gina, playing video only - no audio
Zone number 4 - uses the last audio out from Gina, playing video only
I've managed to get it working, but what happens is that when music videos are playing in two zones, then both audio comes through on Zone 1. I've already configured MC to handle the sound out from each zone and assigned it to the relevant output on the Gina. Also noted that some video won't play in some zones when they are already playing in another. Appears to be codec related, does MC only handle one instance of a video codec?