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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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"Automatically Aquire MediaInfo Details From Movies" produces very high and long lasting network load on startup. #856

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Setup a Windows/SMB-Share as folder in Moving Pictures
2. Start MediaPortal or Moving Pictures Config. Look at Network load monitor 
(Task Manager)

When starting MP with Moving Pictures enabled I see very high network load 25% 
(WinXP) to 55% (Win7). Both, of course, with GBit-LAN. This seems to slowdown 
some things a lot.
When I just turn of the option "Automatically Aquire MediaInfo Details From 
Movies" in the Advanced Settings of Moving Pictures the issue is completely 
gone.
I can always reproduce this issue on my HTPC (WinXP SP3) and on my Dev. PC 
(Win7). My server which hosts my movie files is running WinXP SP3.

What version of Moving Pictures are you using? What version of MediaPortal?
What Skin?
Moving Pictures 1.0.4
MP 1.1.0 RC4
Blu3

Original issue reported on code.google.com by zeriadtke@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2010 at 11:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Do any of the AVI files use AC3 codec? If so download older MediaInfo GUI 
v0.7.26 and obtain DLL from it to overwrite the one you have (verify for sure 
you don't have multiple versions setup for MediaPortal).

I submitted this bug to MediaInfo developers and they are working on a fix.

It might not relate to your exact problem, but try to test for it.

And you will always retain some network load of course, because one way or 
another those headers need to be obtained to get the resolution and codec 
information from your movie files.

Original comment by RoChess....@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2010 at 11:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Yes I would say approx. 30% of my movies have multichannel AC3 tracks. The 
other 70% DTS.
I will try the old version of MediaInfo, thanks for the hint. But one thing I 
don't understand: Why does Moving Pictures scan these stuff every time? I 
didn't add any new movies for a long time.

Original comment by zeriadtke@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2010 at 12:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
OK I tried to use the version of MediaInfo you suggested, but nothing changed. 
The odd thing is that I'm not sure from where it takes the MediaInfo.dll. When 
I completely delete it from MediaPortal dir. Moving Pictures still does scan 
for MediaInfo when I look at the logs (see attachment).

Original comment by zeriadtke@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2010 at 12:58

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
zeriadtke, please try the information from:

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

and report back if that solves your problems.

Original comment by RoChess....@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2010 at 10:11