mpc-hc window crashes upon dragging to extended desktop view

[HighlandeR]

just wanted to find out if this is a bug or not, I have a Q6600/4gig ram pc with Radeon 5870 graphics card.

The same issue appears with a Nvidia 7600 card also, and on a different Q6600 PC with windows 7 64bit ultimate.

I have extended display so 24inch monitor for surfing the net/pc and on the 26inch philips LCD is the extended display for movies.

If I drag the media player hc window which is playing a video (any file divx/mkv etc) and I drag to extended view screen on the 2nd philips screen it can hang/freeze with sound still playing.

It happens perhaps 1 out of 3 times, tried 32bit and 64bit versions and older versions even tried original classic media player.

Problem is not there with other players like windows media player, bs player...Any ideas thx

 

[RomanNose]

I thought MPC-HD was famed for Hardware acceleration? I would have a punt at turning it off as it has caused me problems in the past with flash and I would guess it is probably something to do with it.

 

[mrk]

MPC uses DXVA hardware acceleration which other players do not, for AVI files DXVA will not be used though as these don't contain the h264 codec, only mkv/mp4 etc using H264 codecs will use DXVA so your issue isn't going to be that I don't think. Probably ATI driver related as this is not an uncommon trend with ATI cards.

I don't have the problem you mention either:

Though I am on an nVidia card.

To rule out the MPC being the issue entirely, copy my settings below for the output:

IIRC they are the default anyway. Also make sure you're not using any codec packs as they're pointless and cause problems like this as well.

 

[HighlandeR]

I was thinking same thing also about hardware acceleration... so went from dxva to overlay mixer, I noticed it said overlay is for tv output when hovering over it it mentions it....

problems fixed, so guess can enjoy lower cpu usage during playback for now....