Two Relatively Minor Player Issues

[Derek Katz]

I have a couple of minor issues with the Player that I thought I'd share to see if there might be existing solutions, or with the hope that they might be fixed in a future version.

The first is that the player will fail to load .riff files in a second monitor.  If I drag the freshly-initialized player over there, then try to Load a Rifftrax, it'll crash as soon as the .riff file's done downloading.  I can get around this by loading the file while the player is in the primary monitor's view, then once it's finished loading dragging it over to the secondary monitor.

This kind of segues to the second issue, which is that after this move the player restarts from the beginning of the DVD- whatever's shown when the .riff's done loading.  Irritating, but not too serious.

The third issue is also related.  Alt-tabbing from something shown fullscreen on the primary monitor to the player will also cause the player to reset.  Only alt-tabbing from a full-screen program will cause the issue.  This is the worst of the issues, as it makes it impossible to adjust the player volume while dealing with anything displayed full screen.  Edit:  After doing a little more research, I think this has to do with switching between 16- and 32-bit color depths, which Vista does when transitioning from a full-screen item to the desktop.

For reference:  I'm using Windows Vista Business, and for codecs I'm using the defaults that come with the K-Lite Codec Pack full.  I can post more details or information if necessary.

Aside from that, I've had nothing but perfect operation from the player, and I applaud it's creators!  Thank you for this.