OnlineVideos 2.8.0.1 [2025/02/16] (20 Viewers)

[emphatic]

I've installed 2.7 now, but typically, MediaPortal starts just fine when launched from Watchdog, lol. It seems to be consistent on hanging while being started as Windows starts though. I don't put my HPTC to sleep, I always turn it off completely, so MediaPortal starts "cold".

These are the processes active in the Task Manager when MediaPortal has stopped loading:

Attached are Watchdog (X64) logs for a successful launch from Watchdog.

 

[doskabouter]

hm, those logs doesn't seem to help if its starting ok
it could theoretically be that the webview component needs network to start up successfully
Can you add a depenency on network fully started to the mp-startup script? (or maybe just for testing: add a sufficiently large delay to it, that way we can be fairly sure that network is the culprit)

 

[emphatic]

How do I add the dependency to the mp-startup script, please?

 

[doskabouter]

that depends on where it is called...
but i think for a first test, adding a sufficient delay in that script before starting MP and see if that solves the issue will give good confidence on if it is viable in the first place

 

[emphatic]

I tried the third option in Watchdog after I had killed a hanged MediaPortal too, not sure if it's any help to you though.

 

[doskabouter]

was that after a reboot?
And indeed no onlinevideos.log.
The first thing that should be there is "WebViewHelper created successfully" so i suspect that this might indeed be the blocking issue.
Can you add a delay of f.e. 1 minute? (assuming that your system is fast enough to get everything up and running in 1 minute? if not maybe 2 or 3 minutes)
What exactly do you use to autostart MP? scheduled task, windows autoruns, others? and how does that script look like, so I can suggest (if you dont know yourself) how to add that delay

 

[emphatic]

I've just set it up to start when Windows starts in MediaPortal Configuration:

General
Startup/Resume settings
Autostart MediaPortal on Windows startup

I will try removing it from that and restart, then wait a couple of minutes and see if that works.

 

[doskabouter]

not sure exactly how that works tbh...
and yes, that would be a good experiment.
@Pablik : maybe move mp-onlinevideos2/OnlineVideos/Helpers/WebviewHelper.cs at master · MediaPortal/mp-onlinevideos2 to a place where onlinevideos is actually doing something?
But maybe those dreaded latestvideos are potentially needing it at MP start...

 

[emphatic]

It seems to work. Maybe my HTPC is getting too old. I will try this way for a while, just to make sure it works every time.

 

[Pablik]

Well, if the issue is really in init of webview2 then try this: in MP exe folder there is a file with name 'Microsoft.Web.WebView2.WinForms.dll'. Rename this file to something else. OV will rise file not found exception(in OV log) upon init and will continue to load.