Topic: MC starts playing audio files while I'm watching video (Read 4111 times)

G. Shumway · « **on:** December 30, 2010, 12:53:47 pm »

Recently (in the last several builds of MC) I have been getting a weird error. While watching an avi video, at some point (varies), MC starts playing an audio file simultaneously. Stopping video playback does not stop the audio playback, and soon after stopping video, MC stops responding. Each time this has happened, the audio file that MC has started playing has been one of several large m4a files of a podcast I download. Only killing the MC task stops the audio playback.

I often use MC to watch avi's and this is a new problem for me. I am using Windows XP 64 and MC 15.0.171. This doesn't happen every time I play video, but it has been happening more than half of the time.

Help! Please.

glynor · « **Reply #1 on:** December 31, 2010, 10:54:03 am »

That is really, really weird.

Do you have any zones configured?

G. Shumway · « **Reply #2 on:** January 03, 2011, 02:27:59 am »

No zones.

I moved the podcasts to a directory outside of the auto-import parent directory they had been in and now it stopped happening. Move them back and it happens. <shrug>

Also, it seems to happen about 35 minutes into whatever video I am watching at the time.

G. Shumway · « **Reply #3 on:** January 07, 2011, 08:10:10 pm »

So, any ideas why this might happen when my podcast files are in \\Audio\[User]\_Podcasts\ and not when the files are in \\_Podcasts\? The \\Audio directory is set for Auto Import, but that doesn't have anything to do with playback, does it?

JimH · « **Reply #4 on:** January 07, 2011, 08:12:29 pm »

It is weird. Maybe another application (iTunes?) is starting playback?

G. Shumway · « **Reply #5 on:** January 08, 2011, 02:11:21 am »

I don't think so. It's definitely MC doing the playback because it only stops when I kill the MC task. (I don't have iTunes installed, but I do have Quicktime.)

JimH · « **Reply #6 on:** January 08, 2011, 07:20:58 am »

Are you sure you don't have two versions of MC installed?

Mr ChriZ · « **Reply #7 on:** January 08, 2011, 08:28:58 am »

I had this when my DirectShow Filter system was corrupted:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=56798.msg385602#msg385602

I ended up installing K-Lite which repaired the system.

G. Shumway · « **Reply #8 on:** January 10, 2011, 01:32:28 pm »

I do have MC 14 installed in a different directory, but only the MC15 task is running and the audio file playback stops when I kill it.

I have not tried messing with my codecs, so I will give that a shot and then replace those podcats files in their old (problematic) directory.

Alex B · « **Reply #9 on:** January 10, 2011, 06:32:00 pm »

Do you hear both audio streams simultaneously or does the podcast stream mute the video sound track?

It would be interesting to see if the excess audio stream shows up in the DirectShow filter graph. Could you reproduce the problem and when the podcast track has started playing copy the DirectShow graph info and post it here?
(Right-click the video display and select DirectShow Filters > Copy graph info to clipboard from the menu.)

rpalmer68 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 10, 2011, 07:52:24 pm »

And a log file would be interesting to look at too...

G. Shumway · « **Reply #11 on:** January 13, 2011, 07:50:11 pm »

Okay...

Rogue audio plays simultaneously with audio track of video file. I can hear them both. It just occurred, again, slightly more than 31 minutes into the video playback. Interestingly, I have been watching videos for several days without this happening. The track that plays is an m4a file that had been backed-up, deleted from disk and my library and then restored under a different name and reimported to MC.

Filter graph is included below.

Filter Graph Info:

Filter 'Default DirectSound Device'
CLSID: {79376820-07D0-11CF-A24D-0020AFD79767}
Host: c:\windows\syswow64\quartz.dll
Input Pin 'Audio Input pin (rendered)'
Connected to pin 'Out' of filter 'ffdshow Audio Decoder'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_PCM, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx

Filter 'Video Mixing Renderer 9'
CLSID: {51B4ABF3-748F-4E3B-A276-C828330E926A}
Host: c:\windows\syswow64\quartz.dll
Input Pin 'VMR Input0'
Connected to pin 'Out' of filter 'ffdshow Video Decoder'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Video Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_YV12, Format type FORMAT_VideoInfo2
Input Pin 'VMR Input1'

Filter 'ffdshow Audio Decoder'
CLSID: {0F40E1E5-4F79-4988-B1A9-CC98794E6B55}
Host: c:\program files (x86)\audio-visual\codecs\combined community codec pack\filters\ffdshow\ffdshow.ax
Output Pin 'Out'
Connected to pin 'Audio Input pin (rendered)' of filter 'Default DirectSound Device'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_PCM, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx
Input Pin 'In'
Connected to pin 'Output' of filter 'JRiver Media Proxy Audio'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio Sub type Unknown GUID Name: {00000055-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx

Filter 'ffdshow Video Decoder'
CLSID: {04FE9017-F873-410E-871E-AB91661A4EF7}
Host: c:\program files (x86)\audio-visual\codecs\combined community codec pack\filters\ffdshow\ffdshow.ax
Input Pin 'In'
Connected to pin 'Output' of filter 'JRiver Media Proxy Video'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Video Sub type Unknown GUID Name: {44495658-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, Format type FORMAT_VideoInfo
Output Pin 'Out'
Connected to pin 'VMR Input0' of filter 'Video Mixing Renderer 9'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Video Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_YV12, Format type FORMAT_VideoInfo2
Input Pin 'In Text'

Filter 'JRiver Media Proxy Audio'
CLSID: {A4207487-E7D8-406B-9882-B66370DE2492}
Host:
Input Pin 'Input'
Connected to pin 'Stream 01' of filter 'AVI Splitter'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio Sub type Unknown GUID Name: {00000055-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx
Output Pin 'Output'
Connected to pin 'In' of filter 'ffdshow Audio Decoder'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio Sub type Unknown GUID Name: {00000055-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx

Filter 'JRiver Media Proxy Video'
CLSID: {A4207487-E7D8-406B-9882-B66370DE2492}
Host:
Input Pin 'Input'
Connected to pin 'Stream 00' of filter 'AVI Splitter'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Video Sub type Unknown GUID Name: {44495658-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, Format type FORMAT_VideoInfo
Output Pin 'Output'
Connected to pin 'In' of filter 'ffdshow Video Decoder'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Video Sub type Unknown GUID Name: {44495658-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, Format type FORMAT_VideoInfo

Filter 'AVI Splitter'
CLSID: {1B544C20-FD0B-11CE-8C63-00AA0044B51E}
Host: c:\windows\syswow64\quartz.dll
Output Pin 'Stream 00'
Connected to pin 'Input' of filter 'JRiver Media Proxy Video'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Video Sub type Unknown GUID Name: {44495658-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, Format type FORMAT_VideoInfo
Output Pin 'Stream 01'
Connected to pin 'Input' of filter 'JRiver Media Proxy Audio'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Audio Sub type Unknown GUID Name: {00000055-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}, Format type FORMAT_WaveFormatEx
Input Pin 'input pin'
Connected to pin 'Output' of filter 'Q:\Video\video01.avi'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Stream Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_Avi, Format type TIME_FORMAT_NONE

Filter 'Q:\Video\video01.avi'
CLSID: {E436EBB5-524F-11CE-9F53-0020AF0BA770}
Host: c:\windows\syswow64\quartz.dll
Output Pin 'Output'
Connected to pin 'input pin' of filter 'AVI Splitter'
Major type MEDIATYPE_Stream Sub type MEDIASUBTYPE_Avi, Format type TIME_FORMAT_NONE

G. Shumway · « **Reply #12 on:** January 13, 2011, 08:05:47 pm »

Whoa, this time it started playing the same file when MC was just sitting there idle. I killed and restarted MC and noticed that the audio started playing again as MC was reporting that it was auto analyzing music files, stuck on file 1 of ###.

I am going to update my codecs--this is getting frustrating.

JimH · « **Reply #13 on:** January 13, 2011, 08:10:58 pm »

Something else must be playing the music. MC won't do that.

G. Shumway · « **Reply #14 on:** January 13, 2011, 08:32:50 pm »

What else could be playing it? MC is set to be the default for every audio and video media type.

I just installed the latest Community Centered Codec Pack (which included an updated ffdshow) and it disabled an mp4 codec (I think it was Gambest or something like that) because of "known problems". Restarted MC and it didn't play that darn m4a file. Here's hoping that did it.

G. Shumway · « **Reply #15 on:** January 13, 2011, 08:35:00 pm »

Quote from: JimH on January 13, 2011, 08:10:58 pm

Something else must be playing the music. MC won't do that.

It must be MC because the play back stops immediately when I kill the MC15 task in task manager. Can't close MC properly--it just locks up if I try.

JimH · « **Reply #16 on:** January 13, 2011, 09:29:55 pm »

Is there a web page open in MC?

G. Shumway · « **Reply #17 on:** January 13, 2011, 10:34:38 pm »

No web page. Displaying Playing Now the last few times it happened. Before that, it was in the Display View during video play back.

Yaobing · « **Reply #18 on:** January 14, 2011, 07:58:23 am »

Have you set MC to auto import?

G. Shumway · « **Reply #19 on:** January 14, 2011, 02:10:41 pm »

MC had been set to Auto-import my \\Audio directory. The rogue audio files were originally in \\Audio\_Podcasts. If I removed them from the \\Audio path, they would not play. If I put them back, they would.

I thought to turn off Auto-import, but that didn't seem to make a difference. In fact, that is when MC started playing them just after program startup (and no, they were not in Playing Now or any play list), before I ever even had a chance to play any other audio or video.

After updating the codec pack, the unrequested playback hasn't happened, but now MC hangs when I try to exit the program. <shakes head>

I reinstalled MC to no benefit, and have scheduled a startup disk check for windows. Probably unrelated errors, but what a series of events!

Yaobing · « **Reply #20 on:** January 14, 2011, 04:08:57 pm »

Sounds like some filters acting up during some MC background events (auto import, video thumbnailing). What codec pack do you use?

G. Shumway · « **Reply #21 on:** January 14, 2011, 05:15:17 pm »

Quote from: G. Shumway on January 13, 2011, 08:32:50 pm

I just installed the latest Community Centered Codec Pack (which included an updated ffdshow) and it disabled an mp4 codec (I think it was Gambest or something like that) because of "known problems". Restarted MC and it didn't play that darn m4a file. Here's hoping that did it.

Yaobing · « **Reply #22 on:** January 14, 2011, 06:44:01 pm »

Oh, sorry I did not read your post carefully enough. I think you meant Combined Community Codec Pack. You got the 2010-10-10 version? Yes that is the codec pack we recommend.

Turn on logging in MC. Go to video view and play a video as you did before. If the unwanted audio starts playing, email me the log files.

yaobing at jriver

G. Shumway · « **Reply #23 on:** January 18, 2011, 02:48:44 am »

So I haven't had the rogue audio problem since I updated CCCP. I am, however, finding that MC now hangs when I try to exit the program (which it didn't do before). I have reinstalled MC, but to no benefit. Do you think this is related? Should I start a new thread? Suggestions?

Yaobing · « **Reply #24 on:** January 21, 2011, 12:11:44 pm »

Can you post the tail of a log file here?

G. Shumway · « **Reply #25 on:** January 21, 2011, 12:53:22 pm »

I have one saved that I can send when I get home. The hanging issue seems to have been cleared up by uninstalling MC and reinstalling, rather than leaving installed and just updating.

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