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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 863620" data-attributes="member: 18896">IMDb+ is just a scraper-script when it comes down to it, so if you have technical problems during import you would have the same issues with another scraper-script as well. Granted I do a lot of additional stuff with IMDb+, but it all relies on the information that MovingPictures plugin obtains, which it gets for all the other scraper-scripts as well.&nbsp;MediaInfo on the other hand can be a troublemaker. It's the part in the log file above that does &quot;23-Mar-2012 16:26:02 Info [ MovieImporter]: Retrieving media information for: Test&quot;, but something could have gone wrong, causing MediaInfo to crash. This then causes the 'next' movie to fail and stall the import process.&nbsp;For this reason I now bundle the latest version of MediaInfo with IMDb+ which when you install the MPEI package via the &quot;MediaPortal Extension Installer&quot; shortcut is an optional (default selected) option, and when you update/install IMDb+ via the MPEI GUI Extension it gets installed automatic. This usually solves the import stall for most situations.&nbsp;So the problem could lie within StableBit/DrivePool, but can be activated by MediaInfo. It is worth a shot to try. If you open the properties on your mediainfo.dll file in your MediaPortal program folder, you should see v0.7.56.&nbsp;MediaInfo changelog available at: <a href="http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/Log" target="_blank">http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/Log</a>&nbsp;And you can see there are quite a few 'crashes' fixed.&nbsp;Another problem source can be the multi-threaded nature of MovingPictures import process, not every NAS solution deals the same way with 1 request vs 10 requests, so you could adjust the advanced MovingPictures setting to not import 5 movies at the same time (default setting), but to try it with just 1 at a time. This makes debugging an issue like this much easier, because then all the events are happening in order and not a ton of things at the same time. Import goes a lot slower then of course, so it is not meant as a permanent solution, but it will help narrow down where the problem might really be at.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 863620, member: 18896"] IMDb+ is just a scraper-script when it comes down to it, so if you have technical problems during import you would have the same issues with another scraper-script as well. Granted I do a lot of additional stuff with IMDb+, but it all relies on the information that MovingPictures plugin obtains, which it gets for all the other scraper-scripts as well. MediaInfo on the other hand can be a troublemaker. It's the part in the log file above that does "23-Mar-2012 16:26:02 Info [ MovieImporter]: Retrieving media information for: Test", but something could have gone wrong, causing MediaInfo to crash. This then causes the 'next' movie to fail and stall the import process. For this reason I now bundle the latest version of MediaInfo with IMDb+ which when you install the MPEI package via the "MediaPortal Extension Installer" shortcut is an optional (default selected) option, and when you update/install IMDb+ via the MPEI GUI Extension it gets installed automatic. This usually solves the import stall for most situations. So the problem could lie within StableBit/DrivePool, but can be activated by MediaInfo. It is worth a shot to try. If you open the properties on your mediainfo.dll file in your MediaPortal program folder, you should see v0.7.56. MediaInfo changelog available at: [B][url]http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/Log[/url][/B] And you can see there are quite a few 'crashes' fixed. Another problem source can be the multi-threaded nature of MovingPictures import process, not every NAS solution deals the same way with 1 request vs 10 requests, so you could adjust the advanced MovingPictures setting to not import 5 movies at the same time (default setting), but to try it with just 1 at a time. This makes debugging an issue like this much easier, because then all the events are happening in order and not a ton of things at the same time. Import goes a lot slower then of course, so it is not meant as a permanent solution, but it will help narrow down where the problem might really be at. [/QUOTE]

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