Moving Pictures breaks my MP! (1 Viewer)

[doveman]

I was having a problem with TV stuttering and also noticed that the GUI was very unresponsive after stopping the stuttering TV.

After much shutting down of programs and then disabling plugins, I found that Moving Pictures was the problem.

I've attached logs from with it disabled and enabled and you can see there's loads of "Dropping Samples" in the evr.log in the latter.

The .dll says it's v1.2.3.1329.

 

[fforde]

Turn off scraper script debugging. That is for script developers. You logged 1.3 MB of data to disk in about 50 seconds, of course its going to affect performance. You also have the IMDb+ script in there which is a resource hog. It works great for a lot of people and I don't want to discourage it's use, but it definitely uses a lot more resources than the standard script and it's not officially supported.

 

[doveman]

Turn off scraper script debugging. That is for script developers. You logged 1.3 MB of data to disk in about 50 seconds, of course its going to affect performance. You also have the IMDb+ script in there which is a resource hog. It works great for a lot of people and I don't want to discourage it's use, but it definitely uses a lot more resources than the standard script and it's not officially supported.

Like I'm supposed to know how much data it's logging to disk per second! If I did enable it, I can only imagine it's because I was following some instructions to do so but I'll disable it now.

Even so, 1.3MB in 50 seconds is much less than MP writes to disk when recording, so I don't see why that should mess up MP.

Thanks for the advice anyway.

 

[doveman]

Well I disabled Debug mode and the IMDB+ script and it's still causing the same problem.

 

[fforde]

Sorry if I offended. You are right the scraper debug logging can sometimes not be obvious and you're not the first to have it turned on when it was not needed.

As for your logs now, I am not seeing much that looks wrong. You are getting a few errors regarding loading some artwork but this shouldn't affect performance. It also looks like all the background processes that run on startup have completed fine as well. I think this will probably not help, but it's worth a try. Can you try disabling MediaInfo scanning? This can be turned off under the gear icon on the Movie Importer.

Also it looks like you have an established database. When exactly did these problems first start happening?

 

[doveman]

Sorry if I offended. You are right the scraper debug logging can sometimes not be obvious and you're not the first to have it turned on when it was not needed.

As for your logs now, I am not seeing much that looks wrong. You are getting a few errors regarding loading some artwork but this shouldn't affect performance. It also looks like all the background processes that run on startup have completed fine as well. I think this will probably not help, but it's worth a try. Can you try disabling MediaInfo scanning? This can be turned off under the gear icon on the Movie Importer.

Also it looks like you have an established database. When exactly did these problems first start happening?

Thanks, I'll try disabling MediaInfo scanning.

I've only started having these problems today I think. I've had some problems with TV stuttering before, which seemed to have been down to running dual-screen, which I'd fixed by using the modified dshowhelper, but not in single-screen mode and I haven't noticed the GUI being slow before.

 

[doveman]

That seems to have done the trick

Now just got to work out why it's suddenly started causing problems

 

[fforde]

Great, glad to hear it.

As for why it suddenly started happening did you install or upgrade anything in the last day or two? If something updated your mediainfo.dll file it could be a version that has performance problems. Just a guess.

 

[doveman]

Hmm, can't really think of anything. The most recent things I've been playing with is MyFilms (which I probably updated over a week ago) and HTPCinfo and I installed Ant Movie Catalog recently as well.

I installed the BF3 beta a few days ago.

The mediainfo.dll installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal is v0.7.35.0. There's a few different versions in other programs folders (MeGUI, Ant Movie Catalog) but I would have thought only the one in the MP folder is relevant to this problem.

 

[RoChess]

Hmm, can't really think of anything. The most recent things I've been playing with is MyFilms (which I probably updated over a week ago) and HTPCinfo and I installed Ant Movie Catalog recently as well.

I installed the BF3 beta a few days ago.

The mediainfo.dll installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal is v0.7.35.0. There's a few different versions in other programs folders (MeGUI, Ant Movie Catalog) but I would have thought only the one in the MP folder is relevant to this problem.

New codec settings and codec versions are released constantly. MediaInfo sometimes requires an update to be compatible with that. They are now up to v0.7.50 on their website and you can download the DLL yourself and replace the one that MediaPortal uses. Both MediaPortal and MovingPictures use this DLL, where MovPic uses it during import and to rescan files that are still missing info, and MediaInfo uses it before every playback starts.

Before you update the DLL, always make a backup of the file you are replacing, incase problems arise from the new version, but personally I've upgraded MediaInfo each time a new version was released and never experienced any issues from doing so.

And scraper-debug mode helps me solve any issues on the IMDb+ scraper, as I'm unable to experience sometimes what you are seeing, but once issue is solved the idea is to then disable it again

I had a problem with MediaInfo myself, it would xfer the entire media file first via LAN before it would start playback, so instead of stuttering, I would be faced with a start delay of a few minutes. Only noticed it when the file was on a WiFi share, as my Gigabit LAN network and local files copied the data over quick enough to never really bother me. This was fixed in v0.7.32, but new bugs constantly creep up, so I tend to keep that DLL updated whenever I remember to check.