2014-08-11, 03:43
I'm seeing some strange behavior with the Spooling service for dynamic artwork (Understand it's being worked on but thought i'd report it).
As some others have stated the artwork appears to be downloaded rather than grabbed locally. I cleared the cache and allowed the spooling service to run and most of my artwork is in German where I haven't a German piece of artwork on any content. All media is stored with both pre\post Frodo named artwork locally for all media.
I'm using the latest git version of PTVL (from 3 days ago) on Aeon Nox 4 (latest git) on Windows machines using Gotham and the Spooling service appears to be causing lockups when it completes. No logs as yet as this takes a long time to occur and I only just discovered the cause.
On 3 different machines I was having an issue where when watching a video (in or out of PTVL) the video would lock up on screen but audio would continue. A force restart was needed. This seemed to occur at least 1 to 2 times a day and it was only when I noticed the "Spooling Started" message appear then a few minutes later the "Spooling Completed" message appeared then the video would freeze. I increased the spooling time out to 72 hours and haven't had a lockup since. Initially I was thinking it was an issue within PTVL locking up but then it started to happen when just watching something outside of PTVL.
As some others have stated the artwork appears to be downloaded rather than grabbed locally. I cleared the cache and allowed the spooling service to run and most of my artwork is in German where I haven't a German piece of artwork on any content. All media is stored with both pre\post Frodo named artwork locally for all media.
I'm using the latest git version of PTVL (from 3 days ago) on Aeon Nox 4 (latest git) on Windows machines using Gotham and the Spooling service appears to be causing lockups when it completes. No logs as yet as this takes a long time to occur and I only just discovered the cause.
On 3 different machines I was having an issue where when watching a video (in or out of PTVL) the video would lock up on screen but audio would continue. A force restart was needed. This seemed to occur at least 1 to 2 times a day and it was only when I noticed the "Spooling Started" message appear then a few minutes later the "Spooling Completed" message appeared then the video would freeze. I increased the spooling time out to 72 hours and haven't had a lockup since. Initially I was thinking it was an issue within PTVL locking up but then it started to happen when just watching something outside of PTVL.