Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:01:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video
--- Avi Cohen Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. I slipstreamed SP4 into a copy opf W2K SP3 a while back, and have been using that to set up W2k on the L110 as a fresh installation. > Care to share with me the version of: stream.sys: 5.0.2195.5200 and ks.sys: 5.0.2189.1 > Are you playing DVD's using a ISO image or ripped MPEG2 files? I'm using DVDShrink to shrink DVDs to ISO files that DAEMON Tools mounts as a drive. Margi pops up right after mounting the image. I do have a lot of MPEG2 vidoes captured with a Hauppage card from the TV cable Haven't tested them recently. Hope that helps. I'll try to answer whatever you can toss me, and I can understand. 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 > > -----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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
