MP Config "hangs" at Plugins and MP "hangs" at "Loading window Plugins" (1 Viewer)

[bbathome]

TV-Server Version: RC1
MediaPortal Version: RC1
MediaPortal Skin: wide blue
Windows Version: vista sp1
CPU Type: Intel E8400
HDD: WD 500GB
Memory: 2GB
Motherboard: Asus P5K Pro
Video Card: Sapphire 3470
Video Card Driver: Catalyst 8.3
Sound Card: Sapphire 3470
Sound Card AC3: Sapphire 3470
Sound Card Driver: Catalyst 8.3
1. TV Card: Floppy DTV S2
1. TV Card Type: DVB-S
1. TV Card Driver: latest driver 4.5
2. TV Card:
2. TV Card Type:
2. TV Card Driver:
3. TV Card:
3. TV Card Type:
3. TV Card Driver:
4. TV Card:
4. TV Card Type:
4. TV Card Driver:
MPEG2 Video Codec:
MPEG2 Audio Codec:
h.264 Video Codec: Cyberlink
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Astra 19, Hotbird 13
HTPC Case:
Cooling:
Power Supply: Corsair 450W
Remote: MS Remote Control
TV: Sharp Aquos LC 46 XL 1E
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI

I un- and then reinstalled MP1 & TV Server RC1.

I have the following annoying results:
1) In MP Configurator: Whenever I click on "Plugins" it takes some time (felt like 1 minute or more) until the windows on the right is displaying all Plugins.
2) When starting MP it is quite fast until "Loading window Plugins" - here it "hangs" - not really - but it takes more than one minute until this window is away. The CPU load itself is quite high at 50% all this time. Afterwards MP is starting and working as expected.
3) Everything including HDTV is working - EPG stays empty

Any guess why the hickups described before are occuring?

Greetings,

bb@home

 

[bbathome]

I uninstalled MP and TV Server again and reinstalled.

When TV Server was without any data (no scan or import of channels) MP Config and MP start was smooth.

As soon as I imported the channels from the last scan (around 3200 channels from Astra and Hotbird) MP was starting very slowly ("hanging" at the "Loading window plugins" for quite some time).

Has anyone an idea why this is happening?

bb@home

 

[chemelli]

Can you try rescanning instead of importing channels ?

Simone

 

[bbathome]

Can you try rescanning instead of importing channels ?

Simone

Will do it this evening and post the result.

 

[bbathome]

I started the TV-Server Config and scanned for channels - 3045 channels found.

Afterwards I started MP Configuration - Clicking on Plugins -> waited for 80 seconds until the plugins were displayed.

When starting MP it hangs for 115 seconds at "loading window plugins" with CPU utilization around 50%. Then MP is running as planned..

Any guess?

 

[jaminben]

Try turning off windows firewall. I have the same problem using the TV Server and multiple clients, all would hang at loading windows plugins until I disabled all firewalls on all clients and the server.

 

[bbathome]

Try turning off windows firewall. I have the same problem using the TV Server and multiple clients, all would hang at loading windows plugins until I disabled all firewalls on all clients and the server.

I posted a bug report. There might be an issue with TV-server. Zonealarm was already turned off for the home-network - and I can watch TV in MP - even HDTV!

Maybe close here in continue in bug report.

 

[keegan]

I'm seeing the same issue with loading mediaportal, RC1 was fine before I installed TV Server. Currently installing on another client to test the behaviour.

created a dump on crash, found the following. I'm going to grab the source tomorrow and see if I can track this down.


Thread 0 - System ID 2640
Entry point mscoree!_CorExeMain
Create time 4/24/2008 10:04:05 PM
Time spent in user mode 0 Days 00:00:18.376
Time spent in kernel mode 0 Days 00:00:01.652

This thread is waiting on a socket function to complete. Further review of these threads may be necessary to determine what they are waiting on.

Function Source
ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet
ntdll!ZwWaitForSingleObject+c
mswsock!SockWaitForSingleObject+1a0
mswsock!SockDoConnectReal+273
mswsock!SockDoConnect+392
mswsock!WSPConnect+c6
ws2_32!connect+4f
System_Data!Tcp:ocketOpenSync+44f
System_Data!Tcp::Open+371
System_Data!SNIOpenSync+44b
System_Data!Connect+7e
System_Data!SNIOpenSyncEx+586
System_Data!SNIOpenEx+25
System_Data_ni!__dyn_tls_init_callback+d8d
System_Data_ni!__dyn_tls_init_callback+184f02
System_Data_ni!__dyn_tls_init_callback+186013
System_Data_ni!__dyn_tls_init_callback+1782c8

Recovered Call Stack for thread 0

Function Arg 1 Arg 2 Arg 3 Source
kernel32!RaiseException+53 0012dc90 00000000 00000000
0x016cd02c 00000001 00000000 016e51b8
System_Data_ni!__dyn_tls_init_callback+184f02 00000001 00000000 0012dd84
System_Data_ni!__dyn_tls_init_callback+186013 00000000 00000000 00000000
System_Data_ni!__dyn_tls_init_callback+1782c8 00000000 00000000 00000000

just turned off the firewall on the server, problem resolved on my box at least.

 

[vvulture]

Same here guys.. MP hangs on " Loading Window Plugins " after resuming from standby 4 out of 5 times...
Very annoying as i have many shows scheduled to record and i have to leave my HTPC on.

cheers

 

[bbathome]

Today I reinstalled Vista - afterwards MP - same result as before