Moving Pictures cause MP to crash (1 Viewer)

[majls_files]

MediaPortal: v1.3.0
MovingPictures: v1.5.1.1487

Lately i am having issues with Moving Pictures plugin which causes Media Portal to crash (when I disable Moving Pictures plugin MP works fine). In MP log I can see cause for crash:

2013-07-25 13:04:57.004791 [Info.][(45)]: Exception :Illegal characters in path.
2013-07-25 13:04:57.005791 [Info.][(45)]: site :Void CheckInvalidPathChars(System.String)
2013-07-25 13:04:57.006791 [Info.][(45)]: source :mscorlib
I guess i am having illegal characters in path, I created a script to look for non ASCII characters and everything is fine with all file-names.
I tried removing all video sources(all on Samba) and left only one folder (on Samba) where I have round 5 video files, it still crashes.
I tried recreating movie database with this one folder still same result.

What can I do to find this "illegal characters in path"?

 

[kiwijunglist]

didyou try deleting database db3 file before you recreated it?

 

[majls_files]

Yes i did delete db3 file before i recreated it.

 

[kiwijunglist]

tryoverwrite with new movpic installation and delete movpic settings file prior. i have no idea if that movpic version is compatible with mp1.3, although I'm sure someone else would know...

 

[majls_files]

I already tried with complete new movpic installation. Now i moved my files from samba to local drive and it has not crashed since. i guess there is something with movpic and samba connection. i have to figure out what happens, i'm guessing connection is lost for a brief moment.
While watching videos from samba i never experienced any problems maybe because it buffers but i am just guessing here.

 

[RoChess]

Linux allows characters in paths that Windows does not like.

Are you using UTF-8 codes or windows-reserved-characters in your shares and/or folder/filenames or something? In Linux for example you can use '?' inside your file/foldernames without any problems, but Windows will shit-a-brick then (pardon my French).

 

[majls_files]

that is why i created a script to look for non ascii characters and when ever such file is recognized i rename it. since i copied entire content of samba folder to local drive mp has not crashed (14h).

 

[RoChess]

That's the point though, \, ? and * are ASCII characters, but will cause Windows to crash hard.

 

[RoChess]

PS: What I also forgot to mention is that MovPic needs 'write/modify' permission for some weird reason on import paths, lot of Samba shares are setup as pure read-only and can also cause issues. But if you were able to move your entire collection and it works, all the power to ya.

 

[majls_files]

That's the point though, \, ? and * are ASCII characters, but will cause Windows to crash hard.

I modified my script to look also for characters not allowed in windows:
< (less than)
> (greater than)
: (colon)
" (double quote)
/ (forward slash)
\ (backslash)
| (vertical bar or pipe)
? (question mark)
* (asterisk)

It didn't find any files with such characters.

PS: What I also forgot to mention is that MovPic needs 'write/modify' permission for some weird reason on import paths, lot of Samba shares are setup as pure read-only and can also cause issues. But if you were able to move your entire collection and it works, all the power to ya.

All my video folders have 777 set on them.