Google video is blank w/audio

[RenHoek]

Another 6.0.12 growing pain: The image goes black when I try to play a Google Video, but the audio is still working.

I've tried the mplayer/<always use for mpeg4>=false (just a guess) but that didn't work...

I'm running on a VIA M10000, with Overlay (since VMR won't work on this mobo)

BTW - DVDs (from HDD files) work fine - even got SPDIF 5.1 working.

Thx-
RenHoek

[RenHoek]

Fixed it myself....Had to enable Overlay Color Keying in the Advanced menu.

Go figure....

-RenHoek

[farfromuman]

I have the same problem but it only happens when I use Source Aspect Ratio.

[RenHoek]

Funny you should say that - once I got mine going last night (this AM...), it was split down the middle vertically, with the right-half of the video on the left of the screen, and the left-half of the video on the right-half of the screen. Switching away from Source (or even 4:3) over to 16:9 fixed it (letterboxing it at the same time, too) - even though the videos are at 4:3 on Google...

Another little quirk....

[titanium]

I have the same problem but neither of these fixes helped me.

[0x1a4]

Same here. It's only on the client - 6.15. I have the video folder shared on the server end, and I can browse and play them outside of sage. I can also play them in sage server. Mov files are doing the same thing.

[titanium]

The workaround supplied by support was not to use VMR with my video card. This worked but I lost FSE and OSD transparency. I went back to my old config and now don't watch Google Video on the server PC. Instead I use it on my Media Extender or placeshifter client on my laptop.

A shout out to Sage support for actually supportiung the beta even though I was just trying to provide feedback.