Media doesn't auto-start, graphic glitches, etc.

I've been around in SL for almost 3 years now and I can take some problems as they come, but now its just getting to a point where I wonder if more gets broken than fixed nowadays. I help run a wrestling promotion, SLCW, inside Second Life. We're right now the biggest one with the most growth potential, and we're utilizing the Tube-O-Rama system (which is absolutely amazing) to play videos in Second Life on our screens for people to have their intro songs played. This was working great until about a week ago.

Here is the problem: Nine times out of ten, people that have Automatically Play Streaming Media on have what appears to be the media playing, but nothing plays. I'll start a video, it loads it up, the media tools on the bottom show that it is, in fact, playing...but nothing comes up. Every time, you have to STOP the media and start it again. This happens when I input the videos manually as well, not just using a system. The media tools are greyed out between videos, so it's not a problem of overlapping as the system clears out the link for the old video right after it's over. Now, I thought it was the system, but after checking it manually and with other things, such as MP3s and web content, it seems to do it in all aspects. I need this stuff to work for the shows because we have alot of fans that come to watch and half the time they don't even see the intro video or hear the music. Any help on that would be great.

And on to part two, am I the only one having those extremely annoying graphic/texture glitches where part of a texture gets stretched across your screen, and they flicker all the time? I got so sick of it I ended up having to turn down my graphics to low and kill my draw distance (I'm running off an Nvidea 8800, so its definitely not my card) and I've NEVER had this problem until about 3 days ago. Now its so horrible that I've at points just logged off from frustration.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...even if it's just "It's SL, we just have to wait for them to fix it" so I know its not something I can personally fix myself. Thanks.

Just thought I'd bump your thread - I don't know enough about this to even attempt at answering. Maybe someone else will.

Have you tried the Content Creators' part of the forums?

I thought about it but it really isn't even content creations...so I don't know. This seems to be the best area.

I've noticed very different behavior between different clients in how they handle the media streams. Even the same client version on different OSs. But sounds like this is across multiple environments, since everybody is getting the same results, so... probably not helpful.

The graphics glitch would probably depend on the viewer version in use, and the generation of nVidia drivers... so, to search the jira more effectively, such details might narrow the space.

Video drivers are up to date, using the newest version of the Windlight Release Candidate.

Mostly just a *bump*. I thought I remembered a jira about that card, but looks like it (http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-4838) was resolved. Purely superstitiously, might try going into Edit / Preferences / Graphics / Hardware Options and cut the Texture Memory like in half of what the card actually has, and try both VBO settings. And/or playing with the nVidia control panel settings (can't help there: using Linux so not a lot of overlap).

For the streaming media thing, there's a possibly related thread active at the moment, /327/a8/250133/1.html... not sure this is converging on a solution, though.