[tnmc]

I'm having delays of up to five minutes from when I select a file and it begins playing.

My system is an ASRock ION 330HT-BD running Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, 2.6.32-24-generic i686 and build SVN:32198 (though this started about a month ago).

During the delay between when I select a video to play and it begins playing, CPU is pegged and eventually the log contains the following messages:

21:16:32 T:2755947376 M: 80220160 SEVERE: realloc 1597009928 bytes failed, crash imminent
21:16:32 T:3035364208 M: 79990784 SEVERE: Previous line repeats 1203810 times.

Yeah, that's 1.2 *million* times.

Anyone got advice? Cheers.../Taras

[hotlobster]

Hi

I have the same probleme for few days. I didn't touched anything on my system, but now i can't play any movie in library mode.

If I acess them from Video menu it starts, but from library it still loads for ever.

Debug log here: http://xmltv.free.fr/xbmccrash.log


This is pvr-testing branche, but it was working ok for month now before this appens.

[hotlobster]

Ok i've figured the problem.

There was a corrupted video file in my library and it messed up the whole lib.

After removed it, everything started to run flawlessly.

Really strange that a simple file can lockup the whole library.

[tnmc]

How did you figure out it was a corrupted movie file? Or more to the point, how were you able to find the corrupted file? Please bear in mind I have thousands of files in my library!!

If there's some method of detecting this programatically that would be useful!

Otherwise, I guess it's down to testing each file by hand.../Taras

[hotlobster]

Otherwise, I guess it's down to testing each file by hand.../Taras

That's what i did ^^.. Starting from most recent. The culprit was my 4th latest added movie ( how lucky i was )

If there's some method of detecting this programatically that would be useful!

You can try making a script for checking each of your files with mediainfo. I think it would detect those errors, but i don't know what you should grep in the output. As i removed the faulty file, i can't figure it for you.

[Clumsy]

If you find it, might pay to keep it and make it available for someone to look at.

[tnmc]

HotLobster, you're a star...scanning my library I found a Ukrainian movie I'd ripped from my DVD and given a file name with cyrillic characters as a test to see how XBMC would handle it and of course forgot all about it. Needless to say, XBMC didn't handle it very well.

As soon as I found this directory/file, I renamed them to a latin letter transliteration, deleted the old entry in the library and restarted XBMC...and no more delays!

Thank you soooo much!!