[jmorey]

My current movie collection is mostly movie only DVD rips saved as ISO files using CloneDVD I've been using an apple TV 2 as the XBMC host for some time but recently started using a couple of Foxcon nt-3700's (e450 APU, 4GB memory, 64GB ssd) as the XBMC player (XBMC 12.1). One has XBMC installed on Win 7, the other on Win 8. Both of them have about a 16 second delay between pressing the button to start one of the ISO based movies and the movie starting to play. The Apple TV2 does not have this delay. Neither Foxconn has the delay when starting MKVs. It is only when starting the ISO based movies.

The normal log consistently shows a delay at the Creating Demuxer entry as shown below.

Code:

19:16:24 T:2956  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: smb://courthouse/movies/c/Best Years of Our Lives The/Best Years of Our Lives The.iso
          19:16:24 T:2956 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
          19:16:24 T:3744  NOTICE: Thread CDVDPlayer start, auto delete: false
          19:16:24 T:3744  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
          19:16:25 T:3744  NOTICE: DVDPlayer: playing a dvd with menu's
          19:16:25 T:3744  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
          19:16:25 T:3744 WARNING: could not find codec parameters for smb://courthouse/movies/c/Best Years of Our Lives The/Best Years of Our Lives The.iso
          19:16:25 T:3744 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(audio)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
          19:16:25 T:3744 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(video)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
       19:16:25 T:3744  NOTICE: Creating Demuxer
       19:16:42 T:3744  NOTICE: Opening video stream: 0 source: 256
          19:16:42 T:3744  NOTICE: Creating video codec with codec id: 2
          19:16:42 T:3744  NOTICE: CDVDVideoCodecFFmpeg::Open() Using codec: MPEG-2 video
          19:16:42 T:3744  NOTICE: Creating video thread

I have pasted a debug log at http://pastebin.com/qNgeMYMc I can create and make available a small ISO example if that is needed.

thanks for any help,

john

[jmorey]

So I did some investigation. My laptop does not have the same problem so I did a comparison of debug logs from it and the PC having the problem. It so happens there is a difference (see the bold lines below which are only executing on the PC with the problem) and it is in these lines that the delay is happening.


18:51:04 T:1444 DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (DialogBusy.xml) ------
18:51:06 T:1444 INFO: XCURL:llLibCurlGlobal::CheckIdle - Closing session to http://feeds.xbmc.org (easy=04678E60, multi=00B36768)
18:51:10 T:3784 DEBUG: CAESinkDirectSound:einitialize: Cleaning up
18:51:10 T:3784 DEBUG: Suspended the Sink
18:51:21 T:2492 DEBUG: libdvdcss debug:
18:51:21 T:2492 DEBUG: end of title reached

I've compared XBMC settings on the two PC but have not found a difference yet. Any idea what could be causing the difference?