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- When starting MC in "Playing Now", it always shows the list from the beginning and not the song that's ready to play. Only when navigating to media library and back to playing now, it will go to the currently selected song. But that song is out of sight, I have to navigate a little bit up to see it.

- The animated images gives a "error starting directx engine"


Media Center Registered 11.0.48 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
Intel Pentium 4 2604 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 523 MB, Free - 162 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82 (xpsp1.020828-1920) / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1514 (xpsp2.040109-1800) / Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1556 (xpsp2_gdr.040517-1325) / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive F: SONY    DVD-ROM DDU1612   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive G:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Drive H:   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive G: PIONEER  DVD-RW  DVR-105    Addr: 3:0:0  Speed:16  MaxSpeed:16  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

Getting the same direct x message.  Tried windows update. nothing.

You'll need a pretty good video card to do windowed 3D.

Any ATI Radeon with at least 32 MB on it should work.  We're not sure about other cards.

So this is a change from 2 days ago?

Okay, first, I now not only have both 10.0.157 and 11.0.49 installed, but I also have them both up and running!  (Don't ask me why; I just like living life on the edge I guess.)  Everything seems to working fine, even MC11's cycling visualizations (in reference to the DirectX problem above).  You guys rock!


Minor Bug:  That "first run" License Expiration notice was hidden behind all my other windows, so it took me a few moments to figure out why MC wasn't launching.  (This was with the installer initiating the launch, not me.)


Comment/Question:  Like I said above, I have them both up in front me, and they look absolutely identical.  (Same interface, same views, same Action Windows, same everything.)  Speaking as an alpha tester (rah!), I guess the only major difference (for us to test) at this point is the database engine, right?

(I just don't want to waste my time testing out an interface that is already tried and true.  Instead, I'll just focus on DB manipulation.  I have thousands upon thousands of images I have yet to use MC to manage. )

Quote from: bennyd on August 04, 2004, 04:38:37 pm

- The animated images gives a "error starting directx engine"

Since build 11.0.47 I also get an "error starting directx engine (error creating Direct 3D Device)" when trying to use the animated file view with Alt+3.
It worked fine with earlier builds.
I updated yesterday to directx 9.0.c.

Ditto...  

Quote from: Matt on August 04, 2004, 05:38:34 pm

You'll need a pretty good video card to do windowed 3D.

Any ATI Radeon with at least 32 MB on it should work.  We're not sure about other cards.

So this is a change from 2 days ago?

No.

(Don't worry... I'm fixing to get busy with installing the latest DirectX SDK, so this should be my last annoying post for the night. )

Bug #1:  Using the option "Output Range: Selection" when exporting a playlist doesn't work.   (Some of the unselected tracks get exported, though.  I can see no pattern to explain why they got exported and the actual selected tracks did not.)


(Smartlist Rule) Bug #2:  When using the Auto-Smartlist "Task -- incomplete albums," I am having an album show up as incomplete when it's not.  (I just checked, and this is true in MC10, too.)

The only odd thing about this album is that I converted one of the APE tracks to a wave file, so there's a duplicate track (sort of) with only a couple of (primary) libraries fields differing.  (I manually updated the library tags for the wave version.)

I converted and imported this track many, many months ago (some time last year), so tonight I tried to duplicate this "incomplete album" phenomenon, but I couldn't.

If you care to look into this, you can find the exported playlist (with all fields) here.  (Track #8 is the duplicate track.)

Quote from: imjustagamer on August 04, 2004, 07:45:12 pm

I as well get the Error in DX...

I'm using DirectX 9.0b, and all works fine.  (Radeon 9800XT)  I'll report back later if it's 9.0c that's the problem.  (That seems to be the common theme judging from the others reporting this.)

I only get the error if the playlist is empty...

Well, maybe my card/card drivers are special, but on the surface, both the retail and debug versions of DirectX 9.0c work fine, and I am seeing my cover art all 3D-ish and spining.

Because I am a curious sort, I went ahead and attached my debugger to MC (with the Debug version of DirectX), and I got the following error message:

Direct3D9: (ERROR) :DepthStencil Format is not supported for this Adapter/DevType/AdapterFormat. This error can happen if the application has not successfully called CheckDeviceFormats on the specified Format prior to calling CheckDepthStencilMatch. The application is advised to call CheckDeviceFormats on this format first, because a success return from CheckDepthStencilMatch does not guarantee that the format is valid as a DepthStencil buffer for all possible cases i.e. D3DRTYPE_TEXTURE or D3DRTYPE_SURFACE or D3DRTYPE_CUBETEXTURE.
 *shrug*  Again, MC seems to recover (at least for my system) because the 3D visuals do show up.

I need to amend my previous report slightly about DirectX 9.0c.

The debug versions of DirectX actually does seem to make MC crash.  I was being fooled because Visual Studio was catching the unhandled exception and I was just telling it to continue.  Without VS, it will go unhandled and subsequently crash.


The very odd thing is that the retail version of DirectX 9.0c (the version you guys are using presumably) does not seem to make MC crash.

You guys should run dxdiag.exe and make sure, even though astronomically doubtful, that you don't somehow have the debug DLL's installed.

I've had a number of problems with this release.

1.  during install (auto-install), the installer freezes at the screen where it offers to place an icon on the desktop and quicklaunch bar.  I tried it twice and it froze both times.
2.  It forced me to reboot the second time, but not the first
3.  I got the message:
Media Center Install Wizard failed to install a necessary file
.......JROptionsHelper.dll
4.  After install was complete I received the server busy message:
This action cannot be completed because the other program is busy...
<switch to> <retry> <cancel>
5.  After I rebooted I tried to install again and got the same messages.
6.  Now, every single time I run MC, I get this message:
This version of MEdia Center must be activated by running it once with at least Power User priveleges.  After this activation, Media Center can be run with only guest priveleges.  (Unactivated component: C:\......\mcmimeman.exe)

Edit:  I am running with Admin rights.

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"error starting directx engine (error creating Direct 3D Device)"
 

I get this too... both when I had DirectX 9.0b and also now that I have 9.0c installed (updated about 10 minutes ago).

However, the message is only displayed when I click Media Library or one of its subheadings in the tree. Once I've selected the media library or one of the media modes AND I click on something in the panes, the animated stuff shows up fine.

I don't know if the other people reporting the error have tried clicking an artist or song in the panes... but it fixed it for me.

NOTE: Clicking on something in the tree at any time will give me the error again.

Yep, here too, clicking on the panes, it shows up, clicking in the tree, error message

The same here!!!