Cannot delete a recording after watching (1 Viewer)

[cronqvist]

I have the excact same problem. When having watched a recording I cannot delete it because MediaPortal itself is locking the file.

 

[riksmith]

I also have this problem (using latest SVN). I used the microsoft tool "process explorer" to watch my file handles for the recorded show.

When i start playing the recording two file handles are listed for that file. Both mediaportal.
When i stop playback, the two handles are still listed. When i restart playback, two more handles are listed. This continues until i stop mediaportal.

I am using the Microsoft codecs in Windows 7.

 

[tourettes]

When i start playing the recording two file handles are listed for that file. Both mediaportal.
When i stop playback, the two handles are still listed. When i restart playback, two more handles are listed. This continues until i stop mediaportal.

Sounds a valid issue, but I cannot reproduce it. Can anyone else try to reproduce the issue and figure out what precondion triggers the file handle to be left open.

Also if you play a 2nd (different) file will that cause those two handles (from the 1st file) be left open?

 

[riksmith]

Also if you play a 2nd (different) file will that cause those two handles (from the 1st file) be left open?

The answer is: Yes.

I will try to also debug this myself.

I Can't reproduce it entirely reliable but i noticed something in the code. In the BaseTSReaderPlayer the _filesource (and audiorenderer) is released but in the TSReaderPlayer (which overrides the behaviour) the filesource is not released but only set to null.

I copied the behaviour the release code for the filesource to TSReaderPlayer and now i cannot reproduce the issue anymore (tested 15 times or so), so this could be a solution. Does this make sense?

 

[-Manfred-]

Thanks for the info. Current SVN now has these added to TSReaderPlayer cleanup phase.

 

[tourettes]

0002672: Deleting recording fails sometimes after the recording has been played - MediaPortal Bugtracker

 

[riksmith]

The solution now in SVN is NOT working! If you use the while loop that is in the BaseTSReader code it will work. I also added logging in my while loop, it actually logs several times.

Edit: In my case the hr returned is in sequence: 3, 2, 1, (0)
Also see the notes in: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.interopservices.marshal.releasecomobject.aspx

 

[riksmith]

The newest SVN build contains the fixes for this. If you like, please test.

 

[elliottmc]

Hi,

Does this now work fine for you?

Best wishes,

Mark

 

[riksmith]

For me it does...