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Hardware Acceleration w/o Taskbar

Postby ikarus76 » 01 Apr 2011 10:07

Hi all,
I have a very specific problem here. We use Windows embedded standard 7 (WES7) with a custom shell. This means, that we don't have a Taskbar. Without the taskbar, VLC seems to not use hardware acceleration. VLC logs, that idirect3d9_createdevice (or so) failed.

if I enable the taskbar, what is not a reas option, vlc runs properly.

Any ideas, how to work around this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Michael

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Re: Hardware Acceleration w/o Taskbar

Postby VLC_help » 01 Apr 2011 14:22

Taskbar shouldn't cause issues for DirectX AFAIK. Maybe it is the preview thingy that fails when there is no taskbar.

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Re: Hardware Acceleration w/o Taskbar

Postby ikarus76 » 04 Apr 2011 09:13

why is the hardware acceleration disabled, when the preview thingy fails?

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Re: Hardware Acceleration w/o Taskbar

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 04 Apr 2011 10:49

why is the hardware acceleration disabled, when the preview thingy fails?
This has nothing to do with preview.

If idirect3d9_createdevice fails, you have no acceleration, which is expected.
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Re: Hardware Acceleration w/o Taskbar

Postby ikarus76 » 05 Apr 2011 16:20

why is the hardware acceleration disabled, when the preview thingy fails?
This has nothing to do with preview.

If idirect3d9_createdevice fails, you have no acceleration, which is expected.

ok. why fails idirect3d9_createdevice, if the shell has no taskbar...?

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Re: Hardware Acceleration w/o Taskbar

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 05 Apr 2011 23:55

That is a good question, and I don't know. You need to debug it, to know that.
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Re: Hardware Acceleration w/o Taskbar

Postby VLC_help » 06 Apr 2011 16:09

Do other DX 9 programs work correctly?


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