Windows 11 EBook playback problem
Quote from Paul Nyman on October 18, 2021, 10:31 pmI have several e-books that run fine on Windows 10 but problems with Windows 11.
Specifically I load EBook.exe and start the e-book. Pages with a Multimedia Player(s) and controls will cause e-book to "unload" from Windows 11. Video playback file are WMV encoded..
If I try to restart the e-book often a page that failed to run previously (e-book "disappeared" at that page) often the reloaded e-book may run that page but then stop (unload) at a subsequent page when it encouters a Multmedia Player page. Unloading of e-book is somewhat random. E-book may unload upon entering page or while playing video file using Multimedia Player.
File droppings are not repeatable meaning that pages that ran previously may not run again when reloaded into Windows 11.
It appears that the Multimedia Player is the problem. Gifs, audio files, and other media seem to behave.
E-book does not hang up it simply goes away (unloads) and I have to start the application all over again from the beginning.
As I said runs fine Windows 10.
Any suggestions/help is appreciated.
Thank you.
Paul
I have several e-books that run fine on Windows 10 but problems with Windows 11.
Specifically I load EBook.exe and start the e-book. Pages with a Multimedia Player(s) and controls will cause e-book to "unload" from Windows 11. Video playback file are WMV encoded..
If I try to restart the e-book often a page that failed to run previously (e-book "disappeared" at that page) often the reloaded e-book may run that page but then stop (unload) at a subsequent page when it encouters a Multmedia Player page. Unloading of e-book is somewhat random. E-book may unload upon entering page or while playing video file using Multimedia Player.
File droppings are not repeatable meaning that pages that ran previously may not run again when reloaded into Windows 11.
It appears that the Multimedia Player is the problem. Gifs, audio files, and other media seem to behave.
E-book does not hang up it simply goes away (unloads) and I have to start the application all over again from the beginning.
As I said runs fine Windows 10.
Any suggestions/help is appreciated.
Thank you.
Paul
Quote from Vadim on October 19, 2021, 6:12 am@paul-nyman
Good day! Could you make a demo project with a problem? So that it contains only this problem and nothing else. This would allow those who have Win11 to test your demo project and see exactly what the difficulty is.
Good day! Could you make a demo project with a problem? So that it contains only this problem and nothing else. This would allow those who have Win11 to test your demo project and see exactly what the difficulty is.
Quote from Paul Nyman on October 19, 2021, 1:54 pmVadim,
Thank you for your help in this matter.
I've created a test file which is fairly large (60 MB).
You can download it from this location:
https://www.setpro.com/EBOOKS/TEST/W11_Test3.exe
The program will stop (disappear) randomly depending upon whether you try to play some of the videos or pause them or stop them or simply moving from one page the next.
Totally random in terms of how e-book plays or not plays.
As I said in previous post plays fine and Windows 10.
I appreciate your help in this matter.
Thank you.
Vadim,
Thank you for your help in this matter.
I've created a test file which is fairly large (60 MB).
You can download it from this location:
https://www.setpro.com/EBOOKS/TEST/W11_Test3.exe
The program will stop (disappear) randomly depending upon whether you try to play some of the videos or pause them or stop them or simply moving from one page the next.
Totally random in terms of how e-book plays or not plays.
As I said in previous post plays fine and Windows 10.
I appreciate your help in this matter.
Thank you.
Quote from Paul Nyman on October 19, 2021, 3:10 pmVadim,
This is a smaller test file (9 MB).
https://www.setpro.com/EBOOKS/TEST/W11_Test4.exe
The program will stop (disappear) randomly depending upon whether you try to play some of the videos or pause and try to use the slider to forward/reverse video or sometimes just moving from one page the next.
Totally random in terms of how e-book plays or not plays.
As I said in previous post plays fine and Windows 10.
I appreciate your help in this matter.
Thank you.
Vadim,
This is a smaller test file (9 MB).
https://www.setpro.com/EBOOKS/TEST/W11_Test4.exe
The program will stop (disappear) randomly depending upon whether you try to play some of the videos or pause and try to use the slider to forward/reverse video or sometimes just moving from one page the next.
Totally random in terms of how e-book plays or not plays.
As I said in previous post plays fine and Windows 10.
I appreciate your help in this matter.
Thank you.
Quote from Vadim on October 19, 2021, 10:08 pm@paul-nyman
I checked the smaller file, it works fine for me. But I have Windows 7 (32). I have to wait for someone who has Windows 11 to test this project.
But you can try to rebuild your project with a plugin. Video can be played with the following plugins. The last two are in Russian, but I'm attaching files with translations of the commands. There is an English version of the plugin zmVLC (I attach a link because the libraries used by this plugin are large).NeoBookDX 1.1c (NeoSoft Corp.) - NeoDX (SinLios)
zmWMP 1.0 beta (Peter Pavlov) https://yadi.sk/d/xnqj71odwn_BlA
zmVLC 0.1b (Peter Pavlov) https://yadi.sk/d/kZ-S77bhER0q9w
@paul-nyman
I checked the smaller file, it works fine for me. But I have Windows 7 (32). I have to wait for someone who has Windows 11 to test this project.
But you can try to rebuild your project with a plugin. Video can be played with the following plugins. The last two are in Russian, but I'm attaching files with translations of the commands. There is an English version of the plugin zmVLC (I attach a link because the libraries used by this plugin are large).
NeoBookDX 1.1c (NeoSoft Corp.) - NeoDX (SinLios)
zmWMP 1.0 beta (Peter Pavlov) https://yadi.sk/d/xnqj71odwn_BlA
zmVLC 0.1b (Peter Pavlov) https://yadi.sk/d/kZ-S77bhER0q9w
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Quote from Paul Nyman on October 20, 2021, 3:59 pmI believe I found the problem with Windows 11 not playing e-book properly.
Problem is with the media files. More specifically not all WMV file playback formats (encoding) are the same.
I reconverted media files (same WMV format) with a different application and test e-book now plays properly on Windows 11.
There seems to be a difference in Windows 7/Windows 10 versus Windows 11 with respect to how WMV files are processed for playback.
I have not than an extensive test but on the samples that I provided for testing recording the video files solve the problem.
Hope this may help someone else if they have this problem.
Vadim, thank you for taking time to look at my problem.
I believe I found the problem with Windows 11 not playing e-book properly.
Problem is with the media files. More specifically not all WMV file playback formats (encoding) are the same.
I reconverted media files (same WMV format) with a different application and test e-book now plays properly on Windows 11.
There seems to be a difference in Windows 7/Windows 10 versus Windows 11 with respect to how WMV files are processed for playback.
I have not than an extensive test but on the samples that I provided for testing recording the video files solve the problem.
Hope this may help someone else if they have this problem.
Vadim, thank you for taking time to look at my problem.
Quote from luishp on October 21, 2021, 6:58 amThanks for sharing @paul-nyman!
Thanks for sharing @paul-nyman!
Quote from Paul Nyman on October 21, 2021, 10:37 pmluishp,
Happy to share.
From my perspective/products, creating e-books and distributing them using different media, there is no better tool than VisualNeo Win.
When NeoSoft decided to stop NeoBook development I look for other alternatives and was not able to find anything close to what NeoBook offered.
So happy when VisualNeo took over. Also pleasantly surprised when I also found that initail offering VisualNeo Win fixed some Neobook problems that I was having.
Thank you and please keep up the good work you have a loyal fan/customer here.
luishp,
Happy to share.
From my perspective/products, creating e-books and distributing them using different media, there is no better tool than VisualNeo Win.
When NeoSoft decided to stop NeoBook development I look for other alternatives and was not able to find anything close to what NeoBook offered.
So happy when VisualNeo took over. Also pleasantly surprised when I also found that initail offering VisualNeo Win fixed some Neobook problems that I was having.
Thank you and please keep up the good work you have a loyal fan/customer here.