DGindex still hogs Overlay when -HIDE is used?

[Mug Funky]

ya. the title says it :)

either something's gone hideously wrong on my machine (very possible - it doesn't get rebooted often) or DGindex is using the overlay mixer even when i run it from command line with the -HIDE option.

often i need to play video while DGIndex does it's thing in the background.

though i'm not excluding the possibility that something's wrong at my end - overlay is quite badly behaved in the best of XP systems, and mine's far from the best (SP2, 1 gig ram, geforce 6600 GT PCIe if you need that info).

thanks.

[Guest]

Yes, you are correct. The CheckDirectDraw() function should not be called for -HIDE. I'll fix it in the next beta. Thank you for pointing it out.

[dyssident]

while youre at it, maybe you could do a quick fix for another hiccup ive found.

if you call dgindex with invalid source and the -hide option, the process never dies. it just idles in the background until it is manually killed. the behavior is the same if you add -exit.

for example, call dgindex -hide -exit -if=[c:\not\there.mpg] then check taskman and the process will still be running. maybe it just needs a -suicidal option.

its a bit esoteric, but ive had some problems with this when scripting unreliable source video. but in any event, great program.

[Guest]

Good point. I'll fix that too. Thanks for pointing it out.

I'm off to India tomorrow for 3 weeks so I won't be able to work on a new beta until I get back. I'll have net access, though, so I'll still be checking in.

[Mug Funky]

have a good trip then! :)