[netdefilr]

Setup:
The majority of my collection is xvid. And I play them from a
Windows XP Professional samba/cifs server on my AppleTV (Firmware 3.01?)
Using the latest beta of XBMC camelot beta 1 I believe.

Problem:
While playing video from samba server the video will freeze -- audio too.
It appears that the AppleTV is hung. However hitting buttons on the remote
make the LED on the front blink. Also, if I hold down the center button for
the D-Pad menu it does pop up. Selecting stop or pause will hang the box completely.

This has been going on with I believe 2 AppleTV's on different versions of XBMC.
Sometimes it works GREAT! Then sometimes it has this problem almost every video. It might get 15-20 minutes into it and then stop.

My Theory:
Somehow the Windows Samba/Cifs server discontinues this session.
(another) It might be over time the XBMC install gets corrupt. As
Resetting the AppleTV, Repatching, and installing XBMC seems to be a temporary fix for this issue.

If anyone has any ideas to try, please let me know!

Thanks.

[davilla]

Setup:
The majority of my collection is xvid. And I play them from a
Windows XP Professional samba/cifs server on my AppleTV (Firmware 3.01?)
Using the latest beta of XBMC camelot beta 1 I believe.

Problem:
While playing video from samba server the video will freeze -- audio too.
It appears that the AppleTV is hung. However hitting buttons on the remote
make the LED on the front blink. Also, if I hold down the center button for
the D-Pad menu it does pop up. Selecting stop or pause will hang the box completely.

This has been going on with I believe 2 AppleTV's on different versions of XBMC.
Sometimes it works GREAT! Then sometimes it has this problem almost every video. It might get 15-20 minutes into it and then stop.

My Theory:
Somehow the Windows Samba/Cifs server discontinues this session.
(another) It might be over time the XBMC install gets corrupt. As
Resetting the AppleTV, Repatching, and installing XBMC seems to be a temporary fix for this issue.

If anyone has any ideas to try, please let me know!

Thanks.

A good idea would be to post xbmc.log to a pastebin site and post the URL here, otherwise we are just guessing.

[netdefilr]

The log file was 400k+. I have the boot up sequence and the part where I just played a xvid.

I was able to watch 1 20 minute show. Then I started my second 20 minute show and it locked up around 5 minutes into it.

Log: http://pastebin.com/m5e8fc956

This appears a few times. Must be a DNS problem. Don't know if it matters.
00:38:08 T:51966464 M: 32772096 ERROR: Unable to find host: FSBITCH

The last few lines describe the issue. What happened, I'm not to sure.

[netdefilr]

I've added an entry into /etc/hosts for my file server.
Just watched 1 show, then started another and it hung up again.

[netdefilr]

I ended up doing the following.

Since I had just bought a 260GTX Nvidia card -- I don't know if this improved video watching....

I had bought a 50' component cable and a 50' optical cable from monoprice.
The next problem was getting something to control my pc.
$200+ for an RF remote, pffff.

Installed XBMC Remote app on my Droid.

Holy cow!! Not only does it run off my i7 920, it just seems like it can handle this stuff. I pulled up a video with DTS and 1080P and my jaw hit the floor.
Not only did it fix my problem and made it better, there's no extra box sitting in my tv room making noise!

$20 dollars in cables, and 1 computer to maintain -- versus a media center pc.

I wish I could have fixed my appletv, but a $20 dollar solution+upgrade?

The only con is I had a 2 monitor setup and I can only have 2 monitors/displays active at one time. And this pc is running off of the CIFS the appletv was.