Zoomplayer freeze on Menu/Submenus (long but desperate)

[rembetis]

Been having a problem for months now that is severely damaging the WAF of my HTPC, and actually makes my twin toddlers burst out in tears (pathetic but true ). Hopefully someone out there can help.

(The situation is very specific, so please forgive the amount of detail)

Many of my kids' DVDs (Baby Einstein, Little People) have branching submenus for bonus material and program groupings. In the latter case, the Little People movies are organized around 5 mini-episode chunks, 2 of which are on each disc. So when the first 5 episodes are over, to get to the second set you have to hit menu, which takes you to the title menu for those 5 episodes, then main menu, then choose the second 5-episode chunk, then "play all."

The problem is, Zoomplayer freezes and produces a GraphEdit error when I try to do this. If I exit out of Zoomplayer after the first 5 episodes, and restart the movie, I can navigate to the main menu and second grouping just fine, but if I try to do it while the credits are rolling for the first 5 episodes, I get one step into navigating and then Zoom Player locks up, my kids start screaming, and my wife yells to me from the other room to come and fix the goddamn HTPC again (which requires a Ctrl-Alt-Del and manual shutdown)

Any clue why this might be?

Here are some pertinent details:

-The movies are ripped to my media server with DVD Decrypter, default settings.
-Media Server and HTPC both have gigabit NICs, running through a gigabit switch, so bandwidth is not a problem.
-HTPC typically runs AnyDVD to deal with Macrovision, etc., but I just tried it with DVDIdlePro and got the same thing.
-Running Zoomplayer WMV Pro 4.51 beta, VMR 9 Renderlerss, with NVidia 3 codecs and ffdshow, though changing codecs and removing ffdshow has no corrective effect.
-HTPC connected to my CRT HDTV via AIW 9700 Pro, using both component pigtail and DVI>HDMI cable.

Any help is hugely appreciated by my entire family

[rembetis]

That was pretty convoluted. Sorry about that.

Basically, Zoomplayer is locking up during navigation of some DVD menus, particularly those with branching submenus. But only when I go back to the menu(s) after a period of playback, not when I navigate the same menu immediately after starting.

Hope that clears things up...

[rembetis]

Appears to have been a corrupted codec thing. I've thought that before, but so far so good. Not that anyone is listening

[jlr2000]

Appears to have been a corrupted codec thing. I've thought that before, but so far so good. Not that anyone is listening

Listening here, sorry- but didn't have any info to help you out though. Thank you for following up in your post, I wish everyone did it....it's helpful later when others search for information.

Good luck.

[hvs69]

Most problems with ZP I have had in the past are almost always associated with codec issues.

In the future, when you have any problems try changing or reinstalling the appropriate codec. It has always worked for me.

With the current 4.5 version, I have no problems with nVidia decoders for DVD and Dscaler for SVCD.