2011-04-17, 04:39
Hey giftie
Sorry to keep harping on this! I set aside some serious time to devote to fixing and troubleshooting the "hang" that occurs with local-streamed trailers and I came up with some very interesting results I think you will be interested in.
First - I completely cleared my movies database, deleted .nfo's, removed the source, etcetera. I re-scanned from scratch. (sigh, my watched status...).
I then did a bunch of troubleshooting on single trailers, etcetera. The funny behaviour I eventually identified is this:
With only 'coming attractions' (it doesnt matter if its coming attractions or theater intro, actually) video enabled + 3 streaming local library trailers, I ran 10 consecutive hangs.
Disable any videos BEFORE trailers, 10 consecutive successes.
I didn't make another log since you said there wasn't really anything to see in the last one, but I am certainly willing to do so again if need be.
One other thing I discovered, pressing stop during the trailers has a high rate of what i will call a "menu hang", where xbmc is "paused" with only background, and responds to nothing. I don't actually care too much about this bug but I tested it vs. pressing stop on trailers launched from info-trailer, and I could not create the hang. [EDIT: actually, this happens pressing stop on the local coming attractions/feature/etc videos too].
I'd really like to get this working and it seems like there's a bug in the plugin or playlist functionality.
EDIT: I noticed when the "trailer hang" happens after coming attractions video (or whatever video) ends, if I bring up the a/v menu and press 'next' it just exits to the menu immediately.
EDIT2: If I use the a/v menu and press 'next' before end of the coming attractions video, I also have a 100% success rate. (trailers play properly) So it seems like its the transition betewen local videos and streams from library.!!!!
I hope this is valuable!!
What to do next?
thanks for your time!
Sorry to keep harping on this! I set aside some serious time to devote to fixing and troubleshooting the "hang" that occurs with local-streamed trailers and I came up with some very interesting results I think you will be interested in.
First - I completely cleared my movies database, deleted .nfo's, removed the source, etcetera. I re-scanned from scratch. (sigh, my watched status...).
I then did a bunch of troubleshooting on single trailers, etcetera. The funny behaviour I eventually identified is this:
With only 'coming attractions' (it doesnt matter if its coming attractions or theater intro, actually) video enabled + 3 streaming local library trailers, I ran 10 consecutive hangs.
Disable any videos BEFORE trailers, 10 consecutive successes.
I didn't make another log since you said there wasn't really anything to see in the last one, but I am certainly willing to do so again if need be.
One other thing I discovered, pressing stop during the trailers has a high rate of what i will call a "menu hang", where xbmc is "paused" with only background, and responds to nothing. I don't actually care too much about this bug but I tested it vs. pressing stop on trailers launched from info-trailer, and I could not create the hang. [EDIT: actually, this happens pressing stop on the local coming attractions/feature/etc videos too].
I'd really like to get this working and it seems like there's a bug in the plugin or playlist functionality.
EDIT: I noticed when the "trailer hang" happens after coming attractions video (or whatever video) ends, if I bring up the a/v menu and press 'next' it just exits to the menu immediately.
EDIT2: If I use the a/v menu and press 'next' before end of the coming attractions video, I also have a 100% success rate. (trailers play properly) So it seems like its the transition betewen local videos and streams from library.!!!!
I hope this is valuable!!
What to do next?
thanks for your time!