System Freeze during SMB playback

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Random freeze during random intervals
2.
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.75 the latest version on 4.1

Do you have a modchip?
No

Please provide any additional information below.

This freeze locks up the entire Wii and requires me to unplug the system
and reboot it. It happens random while I'm streaming xvid movies via smb.
The frozen image of the movie is still on the screen and there are no code
dumps.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by teeg...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2009 at 7:00

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same problem here. I know I've posted about it many times already but the 
developers
seem to think it's been fixed in 0.75, but it hasn't. 0.62 is the only really 
stable
version.

Original comment by ory...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2009 at 10:38

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Same problem. I agree with "ory303" about the 0.62 version.

Original comment by jacort...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2009 at 10:51

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I have the same issue, but my Wii freezes during USB and DVD file playback as 
well.

Original comment by gillett...@gmail.com on 11 Sep 2009 at 5:17

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I have tried playing a DivX and a WMV file over SMB (haven't tried anything 
else).  I
have confirmed that 0.70, 0.72, and 0.75 consistently freeze after about one 
minute,
however 0.62 plays all of the videos fine for the duration.  Probably not 
related,
but 0.7x writes the "cache fill" text overtop of some previous text, while 0.62 
does
not.  0.62 loads more quickly, too.  I have 4.1U and IOS 202.

Original comment by aj.sobo...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2009 at 3:53

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issue confirmed, freeze after ~40 sec of xvid over smb with 0.75 on 3.4E. I 
noticed
that the wii doesn't respond as soon as the video starts playing (no button 
works
anymore). As if the cache is only filled once and the wii freezes when it's 
empty.

Original comment by pontome...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2009 at 8:17

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-PAL Wii 3.4E
-cIOS from this site
-Modchip
-watching over smb

Mostly freezes after some minutes of Playback or in the last quarter of the 
Video.
Only power off per holding consolebutton works after this.

Never had the problem with 0.62.

Original comment by retrohe...@gmx.de on 20 Sep 2009 at 6:46

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I am also having this issue.  However the issue is intermittent and doesn't 
seem to
follow any pattern.  I could be half way through the movie playing off SMB, and
suddenly the movie stops and the Wii freezes.  I have no choice but to manually
reboot.  The interesting thing is, this is intermittent as well.  So it's really
difficult to do tests and it doesn't seem to be limited to just a particular 
codec.

This has been happening since the 0.6x version I believe.  I'm surprised more 
people
aren't reporting this.

On 3.2E with 0.75 at the moment.

Original comment by NestyK...@gmail.com on 26 Sep 2009 at 8:06

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Also forgot to mention.  Sometimes after waiting ages.  Perhaps 10 minutes, the 
movie
will continue.  I'm not sure if this is always the case as often I can't be 
bothered
waiting that long so I just power cycle.

Original comment by NestyK...@gmail.com on 26 Sep 2009 at 8:08

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I have the same issue on MPlayer CE 0.75.

Homebrew Channel says 1.0.5, IOS61, V19.26
Wii System Version 4.0E

SMB, DivX or Mp4.   DVD's also crash.   Pity as it seems the most developed of 
the 
Wii media players.

Original comment by robbarry...@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2009 at 7:55

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I may have solved my problem.....I had thought I'd installed the IOS 202, but I 
hadn't since my System version (4.0E) did not have the Trucha  bug.   Therefore 
I 
used the Trucha bug restorrer and then re-ran the USB 2.0 cIOS installer to 
install  
IOS202 using base IOS60 and IOS36.   Still testing but early signs are it 
works.   I 
know IOS202 seems to be mainly wor USB support but it does mention better wifi.

hope this helps
Bob

Original comment by robbarry...@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2009 at 9:46

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I have confirmed what robbarrybrown said.  I thought I had 202 installed, but 
USB test 
told me I was wrong.  Ran the latest Hermes installer, installed 202, and the 
improved 
Wifi has brought an end to 0.75 hangs.

Original comment by aj.sobo...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2009 at 3:16

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I also installed the latest hermes 202 which I downloaded from this site. Seems 
to be
working ok thus far.

Original comment by teeg...@gmail.com on 18 Oct 2009 at 1:46

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Same problem with random freezes during playback (at a random, different, point 
in
the video being watched). Try hard power-off and reboot, then fast forward to 
where
we were up to. Usually fails at least 3-4 times during a video. 

Use SMB mounts over WiFi, to both Windows Vista and XP machines. Mostly watching
videos in XviD + avi. No modhip.

Problems occurring with latest versions (0.75, and also 0.72). 

Reverted back to earlier version 0.62, which works fine and plays all the (same)
videos all the way through no problems.

Original comment by stephen....@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2009 at 3:14

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I can confirm that this issue can be fixed by installing cIOS 202. No freezes 
anymore
on my 3.4E.

Original comment by pontome...@gmail.com on 17 Nov 2009 at 8:24

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I have an issue similar but different. Mine locks up just as the video loads, 
from
the SD Card. It has been happening about 50% of the time, which is weird 
because when
I first started using MPlayer, it didn't freeze at all :(

Original comment by nat...@gmail.com on 9 Jan 2010 at 11:52

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I also get frequent freezes over Samba with 0.76 (up to & incl IRC Topic beta 
from 10
Jan 2010). Installed cios202 eventually (from Wii Menu 4.2E), but no 
improvement.
Went back to mplayer v0.62 and everything is working fine again?!
Here's the link in case anyone is looking!
http://code.google.com/p/mplayer-ce/downloads/detail?name=MPlayerCE%20V0.62.rar&
can=1&q=

Original comment by coke...@googlemail.com on 10 Jan 2010 at 11:32