Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:26:15 +0200 From: "Avi Cohen Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video
Matthew, is this a W2K vanilla or one upgraded with Service Packs? It could be very well that this bug was introduced in a later version. Care to share with me the version of stream.sys and ks.sys? Are you playing DVD's using a ISO image or ripped MPEG2 files? Avi. > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 18 October, 2007 5:20 > To: Libretto > Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video > > Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:17:54 +0000 > From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video > > >I'll leave my system playing video over the weekend and will report > >back on what the BSODs say. > > Well Avi... I've got good news and bad news. The good news > (for me) is that after 3 days of playing 3 ~2 hour DVD images > in W2K, I didn't get a single BSOD. The bad news (for you) > is I didn't come up with any data that might help diagnose > your setup. I did experience a couple of problems, but I > wasn't able to determine the causes. > > Day 1: Played a 2 episode DVD. Each episode ~2 hours. 1st > episode played through and returned to the title menu > unattended. The 2nd episode was playing for more than an > hour, but at some point before I checked in the next couple > of hours, the system had rebooted for some reason. But > that's happened from time to time with the L110 just playing > MP3s in W2K through my Echo Indigo. Maybe heat. It just > shut down today because of heat. > > Day 2: Played the same DVD. 1/2 way through the 1st episode > 1st episode I pulled the power cord and brought the L110 with > me on a drive. That episode ended on the drive, and I > started episode 2. Somewhere along the way the system shut > down when the battery got low. > > Day 3: Everything went flawlessly. I played 2 different ~2 > hour DVD images, one of them twice making about 6 hours of > flawless playback. They were concert videos, and I actually > paused playback several times. > > Now I didn't do any fast forwarding/reversing, navigating > chapter and extra menus. It seems that's where I've run into > playback problems in the past. > But the only BSOD I've seen since you told me to set the > screen resolution to 16 bit was when after doing that, I > reinstalled and ran Margi. I've uninstalled and reinstalled > it several more times since then, and everything has been > working darned well. > > I was having a problem with my mouse, which was why I tried > uninstalling Margi. But I'm sure the mouse problem was > unrelated. My case is broken at the right hinge, and I think > the ribbon cable is the source of the mouse problem, as I > wiggled things and the problem went away. I'm also pretty > sure that the colored vertical lines on the edge of the > screen that Librettos are famous for are due to faulty > connections through that ribbon cable. > > Matt > > Libretto list info: > List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com > To unsubscribe: > http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html > > _________________________________________________________________ > More photos; more messages; more storage-get 5GB with Windows > Live Hotmail. > http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_ > TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_2G_0507 > > >
