Topic: No active playback

Hello there

installed SVP 4  free on my win10 pc. Followed configurations steps for MPC (using 32 bits version) and SVP keep telling me that there is no active playback.

What should I do?

Re: No active playback

Make sure of the following two things in MPC-HC:

1. the "ffdshow raw filter" is set to "prefer"

2. your lavfilters decoder (particularly the one integrated into MPC-HC) is not set to "DXVA2 (native)"; you normally want to use "DXVA2 (copy-back)" but "Intel QuickSync" and "Nvidia CUVID" can work too with the correct hardware/software.

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Re: No active playback

If that ^ doesn't work, open a video, right click the red FFDshow box in your task bar, then click on "raw video filter".

http://i.imgur.com/kolAxPA.png

Last time I had the "no active playback" problem, the text in that box was missing for some reason.

If it's missing, try copying what I have in there, or just uninstall all of SVP's components and then reinstall it.

Re: No active playback

Tried uninstalling reinstalling everything, nothing changed
However, when enabling AviSynth in ffdshow as you mentioned (and by copying the text) MPC-HC is crashing each time I hit play. Maybe because he can't find the 40464.avs script? where can I find it as it is not in the target directory?

5 Reply by brucethemoose (edited by brucethemoose 23-07-2016 04:09:02)

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Re: No active playback

Hmm, it shouldn't be crashing. Usually, when the syntax is wrong, I just get a red error message. Also, it's weird that reinstalling didn't fix it... Is there anything weird about the test video you're using?

I don't know where your Svp directory is, but it should be there, at the default install location, right?

I know this isn't a solution, but have you considered using mpv instead?  Svp performs better with it, it does everything MPC+MadVR does, and ffdshow/avisynth aren't involved which means it'll probably get around the issues you're having.