BRU Causing Ghosting On Media Player Close

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BRU Causing Ghosting On Media Player Close

Postby therube » Sat Oct 12, 2019 5:44 pm

BRU Causing Ghosting On Media Player Close

That's about it.


BRU, open, full-screen, doing nothing.
Everything open, & I click on some video.
Close the video & a ghost image remains.


First time I noticed this.
(Though I typically do not have BRU open, much less when playing a video clip).


BRU 3.2.0.1
Win7 x64
Everything
MPUI GUI front-end to MPlayer


BRU happened to have been opened.
BRU happened to be the background application.
I click on a video clip from within Everything.
Video plays in MPUI/MPlayer.


Other then that, nothing out of the ordinary - except that I did not have any browsers open at the time.
(Browser would typically be my largest memory users.)


If I open BRU windowed, & push it to the side,
& I open a video clip (as above), it opens centered,
& if the player overlays BRU - at all, then I get the ghost.
If, & even after having already opened the video, I move the player just outside of BRU's "realm", it closed cleanly, no ghost.

Image

(Can't get a screenshot with the ghost, well, without a camera, as the screenshot program doesn't see the ghost.)
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Re: BRU Causing Ghosting On Media Player Close

Postby therube » Sun Oct 13, 2019 3:50 pm

Ha!
So today, out of the blue, I take a look at AIMP, & it causes exactly the same situation.
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Re: BRU Causing Ghosting On Media Player Close

Postby Admin » Mon Oct 14, 2019 1:00 am

Hi, do you have the ability to test on > Win 7 ? i.e. Win 8 or 10?
Asking because I was wondering if it is an issue relatedt to Win 7 only or also newer OSes.
thank you
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Re: BRU Causing Ghosting On Media Player Close

Postby therube » Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:28 pm

I looked at two 10's & another 7.

Win10, both worked OK.

Win7 (the second) also failed.

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win10 1709
intel i5, intel HD 530 graphics (on chip)

win10 1809
amd ryzen 5 2400g, radeon vega graphics (on chip)

win7 x64
i-5 750, amd radeon hd 6450 graphics
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Re: BRU Causing Ghosting On Media Player Close

Postby therube » Mon Oct 14, 2019 8:32 pm

Screenshot.
This time I did get the ghost ;-).
(Thought that if I took the shot with windows PRNTSCRN rather then my screenshot program..., & it worked.)

What you see is the ghost.
Player itself is closed.
When I moused over the section that "bled" through, it then showed what it should have shown, leaving the "untouched" portion of the ghost remaining.

Image
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Re: BRU Causing Ghosting On Media Player Close

Postby Admin » Tue Oct 15, 2019 12:34 am

Is the ghosted part also on "Everything"? Or is it just a BRU issue?
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Re: BRU Causing Ghosting On Media Player Close

Postby Growltiger » Tue Oct 15, 2019 12:15 pm

Update the video driver?
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Re: BRU Causing Ghosting On Media Player Close

Postby therube » Tue Oct 15, 2019 4:18 pm

BRU only (well, & AIMP).

I don't know that there are any video driver updates (Intel HD4000, on chip, in the first instance [I thought I had included that, but looks like I didn't])?


I also thought I had mentioned, but again looks like I didn't, that there is no issue with BRU 3.0.0.1.
3.1.0.0 & up all exhibit the behavior.
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Re: BRU Causing Ghosting On Media Player Close

Postby Growltiger » Tue Oct 15, 2019 10:28 pm

Go here:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/28799/Intel-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-15-33-?product=81499
Check to see if your processor is listed at bottom right (scroll down). I bet it is.
Then download and install the latest driver, the one at top left, win64_15.33.48.5069.exe I bet that fixes it.
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Re: BRU Causing Ghosting On Media Player Close

Postby Admin » Tue Oct 15, 2019 11:48 pm

Hi

I also thought I had mentioned, but again looks like I didn't, that there is no issue with BRU 3.0.0.1.
3.1.0.0 & up all exhibit the behavior


We have made a small change to the way the main window paints in BRU, using a modern Windows API function that uses Alpha Blending...
I think that is what causing the issue... but it could be a Win 7 problem. Is it BRU only in combination with the two media players?
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Re: BRU Causing Ghosting On Media Player Close

Postby therube » Wed Oct 16, 2019 12:19 pm

With a quick look...

It looks to be a combination of BRU and MPUI (GUI for MPlayer) and MPlayer (media player).
Again, AIMP and MPUI/MPlayer caused the same situation.

With that quick look, MPlayer alone (i.e., dragging a file onto mplayer.exe, then bringing the mplayer window overtop BRU) did not look to display the issue.

(I'll note that MPUI also puts out a [dated] mplayer back-end, but I only use his stand-alone GUI portion, along with the more current MPlayer linked above.)


My programs/utilities & computer systems (for that matter) are rather static.
I tend to use what is right for me & pretty much stick with it.
I use certain programs all the time - including Everything & Salamander, & MPUI/MPlayer as my media player.


Oh, also, I do not use Windows "Aero" (or whatever it is) theme.
(I turn off all that "fancy" crap & my Win7 looks like XP. Maybe they call it, Window Classic?)


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So looks like there is a more recent driver.
I'll have to investigate that.
Appears that I'm on 10.18.10.4885 (or some such).
(Yeah, that looks to be it, as I have 'win64_15.33.46.4885 (Intel HD4000 Graphics Driver 15.33)_532583.zip' on hand.)
(Not in a position where I'd want to reboot, presently?)
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