RR Doesn't Resume Music after Hibernate - Page 6

xpluis · 08-03-2007, 01:14 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Enforcer

Earlier today I had a little play and found out that moving my mouse or pressing a mouse button made no difference, however hitting a key on a keyboard did.

So touching touchscreen or pressing a key on a keyboard brings it back to life.

Here not, i have alteck wireless combo keyboard-mouse usb and if I move mouse or touch a key all back to life.

guino · 08-03-2007, 02:20 PM

Any of you with this issue have a second audio device installed ? (i.e. Bluetooth adds an audio device) -- if so, would you TRY and disable it in device manager, then test it again ?

happpyg · 08-03-2007, 06:29 PM

I have tried to get this working for hours, I have found that it is not just RR that suffers from these symptoms on my original machine and another AMD system I am building to replace it. I found a utility on the forums called reslaunch that detects when windows returns from hibernation & runs a script. That too will not execute the script until you move the mouse or press a key on the keyboard. I then tried girders "OnResumeSuspend" event and that does the same thing, wont trigger until you move the mouse or press a key on the keyboard.
Both of these I tried with a blank clean install of windows, no other running tasks, no RR, disabled sound card, com ports, lan card, unplugged all USB devices - disabled/unplugged everything I could and still it would not work. Then updated all drivers and tried again - still nothing! Both my systems are nothing flash, onboard video & sound, USB GPS mouse & PS2 keyboard and Xenarc USB touch screen.

I have found the same description of events on girder forums (link below) and similar on other forums too leading me to believe it is a windows related problem but I cannot find a solution anywhere! I have been just pressing the touch screen for 2 years now & have gotten used to doing it but a resolution would be very nice!

http://www.girder.nl/forums/showthre...nresumesuspend

tejesh83 · 08-03-2007, 06:29 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by guino

Any of you with this issue have a second audio device installed ? (i.e. Bluetooth adds an audio device) -- if so, would you TRY and disable it in device manager, then test it again ?

I get the same results after disabling the secondary audio too. With hibernateaware=true in rr.ini, when RR resumes from hibernate, audio does not start playing again and the skin is not refreshing. If I move the mouse cursor, the audio starts playing and skin starts refreshing as normal.

Here's something that may help you debug. I use the FSR skin (flash), and on the audio page, at the top right, there is a widget that changes between a clock, logo, and CPU meter every few seconds. After resuming from hibernate, the skin is changing this widget as expected, but the CPU meter is frozen at whatever % it was at hibernate and does not refresh, as if RR is not updating it. The clock widget however does update (maybe it doesn't go through RR and uses a flash call to get the time?).

With hibernateaware=false, I get the same results as before disabling the secondary audio. On resuming from hibernate, the audio does start playing automatically. But, the screen/skin is still frozen with the symptom I described above. In addition, the song's progress bar, time playing, etc does not update even though the song is still playing through winamp. If I move the mouse, hit a key on the keyboard, or use the touchscreen to click on the skin, the skin/screen will refresh and work as normal with the progress bar, time playing label, etc will automatically update to the correct values and start working/refreshing as normal.

I also have my steering wheel controls mapped to control RR. Again, after resuming from hibernate, if I click next track on my steering wheel controls, RR will resume audio and start playing the track and the playlist will highlight the now playing song. However, all the other labels, such as time playing, progress bar, etc will still not refresh. As before, I have to hit a key, move the mouse, or use the touchscreen before it works as normal.

I hope some of this will help you figure it out guino! I took a few passes through the code, but I have no idea what it could be. It doesn't help that I'm a noob to VB.

tejesh83 · 08-03-2007, 06:48 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by happpyg

I have found the same description of events on girder forums (link below) and similar on other forums too leading me to believe it is a windows related problem but I cannot find a solution anywhere! I have been just pressing the touch screen for 2 years now & have gotten used to doing it but a resolution would be very nice!

I believe the problem is that some hardware/drivers do not implement ACPI correctly or fully. So the events, onresume, onstandby, etc are not reliable and any application that depends on them will have issues on some machines. This include apps like hibernate trigger, girder's events, RR, etc.

But if its possible to develop the application without these calls, its stands a better chance of working fine after resuming from hibernate. For example, winamp by itself, resumes fine from hibernate without any tweaking. The sound resumes as expected and the winamp skins refresh as they should.

Its a minor annoyance, but there has got to be a solution. I'm thinking maybe if the application has a timer event that triggers some IO every x seconds, it will force it to refresh. The reason I think this might work is that winamp doesn't have this problem and it may be because its always readings mp3s from disk. I've been wanting to try this out, but haven't had much time to play around with the source code and don't know much VB either. I'll take a stab at this weekend though.

tejesh83 · 08-04-2007, 02:25 AM

Possible Solution

I went to watch Bourn Ultimatum with some buddies and was too wired to fall asleep when I got home, so I took a stab at the hibernate issue in RR. I think I found a solution but need a few of you to test to confirm.

I slightly modified the code to completely ignore Window's hibernate and resume from hibernate events. Now, the music and skin resume automatically without pressing any buttons or moving the mouse.

I've attached the file for you guys to beta test. In your RR folder, rename your existing RoadRunner.exe to RoadRunner.exe.bak and copy the new one from the zip file.

Note, I did not have the libraries for MapPoint or Speech and couldn't locate them online for download, so these features have been disabled in my build. If someone has the mappoint ocx file and speech dll handy, I can rebuild a complete version if you send them my way.

happpyg · 08-04-2007, 05:15 AM

Woohooo!!! That fixed it on my test machine. I'll try in the car and let you know how it goes.

Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!

happpyg · 08-04-2007, 10:03 PM

Yep, thanks tejesh, not sure what you did but that fixed in the car too, sooo nice not to have to touch the screen every time, thanks heaps!!! And thanks to guino too for his help answering my PM's to try to find a solution!

Cheers!

treetop777 · 08-04-2007, 10:46 PM

EXCELLENT! Thanks.

djmickyg · 08-04-2007, 11:17 PM

very nice! i will be trying this out now!

R33vit · 08-05-2007, 01:49 AM

I found if I hibernate from a skin (ie: select hibernate from exit skin) I dont have a problem when it resumes.

If I hibernate by pushing the power button on the PC (Set in windows to nibernate when I press the power button) it will return to RR with no sound.

Also the onresume cmd in the ExecTBL.ini does not execute until you move the mouse.

hope that helps you Guino

djmickyg · 08-05-2007, 02:55 AM

also i find the auto skin and gamma chnage didnt work till i moved something..

tejesh83: i tried out your version with hibernateaware=true on, and the music resumed.
but my "onresume","restart_phoco" command didnt work when i resumes the pc?

tejesh83 · 08-05-2007, 06:38 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by djmickyg

i tried out your version with hibernateaware=true on, and the music resumed.
but my "onresume","restart_phoco" command didnt work when i resumes the pc?

Sorry, the version I posted copletely strips out the hibernate features of RR, the "onresume" event included. Even with hibernateaware=false, RR was still doing some processing with the hibernate and resume from hibernate events. I took this all out of the version I posted.

Let me see if there is another way to get that event to fire. I got an idea, but I'm new to VB so it may take awhile to figure out. Basically, I want to use a timer that fires every seconds. If more that a second passes since my last check, I'll assume the computer was hibernating and call the neccessary resume code in RR.

tejesh83 · 08-05-2007, 08:32 PM

New Solution

I implemented the algorithm mentioned above. I tested it out on my dev system and my carpc, and it appears to be working. I need you guys to verify as well though.

djmickyg, the "onresume" for phoco should work too with this release. Also, this build now includes the MS Mappoint and Speech features.

FYI - In my car, just today I replaced my audigy 2 ns notebook with a new creative xmod usb sound card (sounds awesome by the way), so with hibernate=true, when I tried this new build, winamp would bich when my carpc resumes from hibernate that the soundcard is not ready. Guino has already taken care of this. Just add usbsound=true to your RR.ini. This will make RR wait a few seconds before asking winamp to resume audio.

Shameless plug - If you like my work, check out my SmartPlaylists plug-in for RR as well. See my signature below for a link.

guino · 08-05-2007, 09:32 PM

can you make the changes you made available (sources) so I can put it in the main sources ??

Thanks for looking at it!