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Moving Pictures is a movies plug-in for the MediaPortal media center application. The goal of the plug-in is to create a very focused and refined experience that requires minimal user interaction. The plug-in emphasizes usability and ease of use in managing a movie collection consisting of ripped DVDs, and movies reencoded in common video formats supported by MediaPortal.
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Long network searching on MP startup and command failure during video playback #771

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. When starting MP, MovPics scans my network shares (where my films are) 
for about 10mins.  During this time if video playback is attempted, the 
system freezes and MP requires closing in task manager.
2. When playing a film through MovPics, MP stops responding to remote or 
keyboard commands.
3. Seems to happens at irregular times in a film.
4. Doesn't always happen - but does more often than not.
5. Playback continues until the end of the film - then nothing at the end 
of the film (black screen).
6. Only way to 'unfreeze' the system is to hard pwr off.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
1. MP sounds can be heard (pinging) when pressing buttons, but nothing 
happens.  The film just plays normally to the end.
2. MP is set to always be on top.  There doesn't seem 

What version of Moving Pictures are you using? What version of MediaPortal?
What Skin?
1.  MP 1.0.2 - no SVNs
2.  MovPic Beta 2 & 3. Issue occurs with both.
3.  Standard Blue3Wide

Please attach a screenshot and logs if possible. When submitting log files
please submit DEBUG logs. See here for details:
http://tinyurl.com/aj65su

Original issue reported on code.google.com by justinho...@gmail.com on 17 Feb 2010 at 10:25

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I had similar weird issues, however I don't think I've seen it after upgrading
Mediaportal to RC2

Original comment by lfs.a...@gmail.com on 28 May 2010 at 9:57

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
To begin with, sorry for the late response. :(

The video issues are related to a bug in MediaPortal that should be fixed in 
the 
latest Release Candidate, I suggest you consider upgrading. This issue did have 
to do 
with Moving Pictures in that it uses an unusual method to handle artwork 
loading, but 
the fix was required in MediaPortal. If you upgrade and still have problems 
please 
open a new issue and we can look into it.

As for your slow startup issues, this may be a real bug but I am having a hard 
time 
figuring out how you could be getting the error message you are receiving. 
Could you 
give any more information about your network shares? What OS it the remote 
system 
running? Your main system? And in the meantime could you (or have you since 
tried) 
upgrading to the latest version of Moving Pictures?

Original comment by conrad.john on 30 May 2010 at 6:32

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi.  I had to stop using Moving Pictures because of the errors, and went back 
to 
using the normal video method.  However, with RC2 (and now RC3) I had another 
go with 
Moving Pictures, and most of my issues have gone.  I can use Moving Pictures 
now.

BUT..... the problem at para 1 still exists.  When I first start MediaPortal, I 
simply can't watch any video for 10-15 mins as nothing starts. I normally have 
to 
stop MP through Task Mgr and processes. Admittedly, I've not waited 10-15 mins 
to see 
what happens!  My router software shows my network activity, and shows constant 
access locally (ie nothing out onto the internet) for the 10-15 mins. If I wait 
for 
the network activity to cease, then MP and Moving Pictures works great. 

1. I run MP over wireless to the router from which the network share is now 
connected 
via wired LAN. (On my original post my share was also wireless, but to another 
PC). 
2. The share is now a Linksys mediahub with some 300 films in about 15 folders.
3. I'm running XP Home SP3. The share is a mapped drive. The wireless 
connectivity is 
excellent and showing 54Mbps.
4. Running latest RC3 and moving-pictures-1.0.4 versions.
5. If I try and watch TV Series (the files are on the same share) the issue is 
the 
same until the initial network activity ceases.

Hope this helps.

Original comment by justinho...@gmail.com on 30 May 2010 at 9:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Okay we will take a look. Would you mind posting a new movingpictures.log while 
running 
in debug mode? Just start up MediaPortal let things go for as long as you can 
bear, 
then shut down.

Also do you see similar issues when launching the Moving Pictures config panel?

Original comment by conrad.john on 30 May 2010 at 9:10

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Here are my Debug logs.  I've also included a screenshot with some notes from 
my router 
showing network activity. By the way I use normal Blue3Wide skin.

1.  Red.  Started MP (6.05am) and after about 2 minutes I tried to watch Alice 
in 
Wonderland.  As normal, there was no response from MP.  Task Manager showed 
Fullscreen 
video as not responding so I stopped the process.  6.13am. Logs attached.
2.  Blue. Started MP and didn't watch anything (watching TV or listening to 
music is 
fine). 6.14am.  The network activity finishes at 6.28am. Video works fine.

Original comment by justinho...@gmail.com on 31 May 2010 at 5:22

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
..... no problems with Moving Pictures config panel.  Works fine with no delays.

Original comment by justinho...@gmail.com on 31 May 2010 at 5:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Thanks for the info, we will look into this. FYI it may take another few days 
as we are 
trying to get 1.0 Final out the door.

So one more question, I am pretty sure this is at the least, indirectly caused 
by 
Moving Pictures but have you tired disabling it and playing a video through 
TV-Series 
or My Videos to see if the problem persists?

Original comment by conrad.john on 31 May 2010 at 3:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
No problems about timing, I can work around easily by just waiting! I just 
appreciate 
all the work you are doing - a great app TY :)

1. Disabled Moving Pictures.  No network activity on MP startup and video plays 
pretty 
much immediately using My Videos.
2. Disabled TV-Series.  Issue still occurs when trying to play video with 
Moving 
Pictures during network activity.

Original comment by justinho...@gmail.com on 1 Jun 2010 at 6:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
justin, can you please try the information from the following thread, to see if 
it solves your issue?

http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/moving-pictures-284/new-mediainfo-dll-might-so
lve-weird-delays-84200/

Original comment by RoChess....@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2010 at 10:17

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Just got to this - been away and am again this week, so will try thu/fri.....

Original comment by justinho...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2010 at 11:54

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
....OK, tried this.  Sadly this didn't work for me.  On startup the long delay 
occurs when Mediaportal has just started - the film does start eventually but 
only after my network (wifi) activity has finished.  

However, I did notice an improvement in navigating through Moving Pictures 
menus - quicker than before.

Original comment by justinho...@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2010 at 5:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by conrad.john on 31 Jan 2011 at 1:22