Media playback of mp3/mp4 fails in Win10 x64 (1809)
Posted: 2018-10-26, 19:22 UTC
This is in reference to the discussion about this issue here:
https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=51161
There appears to be a bug in TC using mciqtz32.dll in Windows10 x64 build 1809 (October update), causing playback of media files in Lister to fail.Lister then falls back to showing just the text content of the file.
Confirmed by another user with same OS version.
This is on 32-bit TC. In 64-bit it appears to work, but I have not tested a lot of different formats. Mostly mp3 audio and mp4 video won't play in 32-bit TC.
Wav files play since they appear to use another dll - mciwave.dll.
I have tested with older pre-update 1809 versions of mciqtz32 and the same error occurs, so I don't think the DLL itself causes the error but something else in the system relating to media playback using this DLL.
I have tested with a clean ini file. Multimedia is enabled in Lister.
Irfanview is installed and works for viewing images, not sure if Irfanview is also somehow used for other media?
Mp3 files play on my system using all other applications to play audio, including Mediamonkey, VLC, WMP and Zoom Player.
https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=51161
There appears to be a bug in TC using mciqtz32.dll in Windows10 x64 build 1809 (October update), causing playback of media files in Lister to fail.Lister then falls back to showing just the text content of the file.
Confirmed by another user with same OS version.
This is on 32-bit TC. In 64-bit it appears to work, but I have not tested a lot of different formats. Mostly mp3 audio and mp4 video won't play in 32-bit TC.
Wav files play since they appear to use another dll - mciwave.dll.
I have tested with older pre-update 1809 versions of mciqtz32 and the same error occurs, so I don't think the DLL itself causes the error but something else in the system relating to media playback using this DLL.
I have tested with a clean ini file. Multimedia is enabled in Lister.
Irfanview is installed and works for viewing images, not sure if Irfanview is also somehow used for other media?
Mp3 files play on my system using all other applications to play audio, including Mediamonkey, VLC, WMP and Zoom Player.