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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 974076" data-attributes="member: 18896">MediaPortal launch:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">MovPic scans all your import folders for missing MediaInfo, Artwork and other tasks (this can take several minutes on slow systems and/or large collections)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Other plugins do the same thing usually (MP-TVSeries, etc)</li>
</ul>MovPic import new movie in the background (can also happen during playback of another):<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Movie details, artwork and MediaInfo is obtained</li>
</ul>MovPic starts playback:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">MediaPortal is given playback control, and issues a MediaInfo scan to get info it uses for example to adjust framerate based on fps data</li>
</ul>That's a lot of concurrency stuff going on all at once, which depending on other conditions cause your behaviour. You should enable debug verbosity log mode and check for example if your library is missing a giant amount of covers. This causes MovPic to waste a lot of time each time MediaPortal launches and it is easy to be quick enough to launch a movie during this time, which would result in issues then if everything does not play nice at multi-thread concurrent level.&nbsp;I had a 45-90 second delay playing some AVI files once, which turned out to be a bug in MediaInfo that it was scanning the entire file and not just the header. Because the file was being streamed via WiFi.B it was quickly noticable as it took quite a bit of time for the entire file to be transferred before playback would start. Started ticket on SourceForge with MediaInfo developers, they provided FTP access, uploaded one of the files causing the problem and a few days later new MediaInfo released that fixed the problem.&nbsp;Looking at your log files can reveal a ton of information.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 974076, member: 18896"] MediaPortal launch: [LIST] [*]MovPic scans all your import folders for missing MediaInfo, Artwork and other tasks (this can take several minutes on slow systems and/or large collections) [*]Other plugins do the same thing usually (MP-TVSeries, etc) [/LIST] MovPic import new movie in the background (can also happen during playback of another): [LIST] [*]Movie details, artwork and MediaInfo is obtained [/LIST] MovPic starts playback: [LIST] [*]MediaPortal is given playback control, and issues a MediaInfo scan to get info it uses for example to adjust framerate based on fps data [/LIST] That's a lot of concurrency stuff going on all at once, which depending on other conditions cause your behaviour. You should enable debug verbosity log mode and check for example if your library is missing a giant amount of covers. This causes MovPic to waste a lot of time each time MediaPortal launches and it is easy to be quick enough to launch a movie during this time, which would result in issues then if everything does not play nice at multi-thread concurrent level. I had a 45-90 second delay playing some AVI files once, which turned out to be a bug in MediaInfo that it was scanning the entire file and not just the header. Because the file was being streamed via WiFi.B it was quickly noticable as it took quite a bit of time for the entire file to be transferred before playback would start. Started ticket on SourceForge with MediaInfo developers, they provided FTP access, uploaded one of the files causing the problem and a few days later new MediaInfo released that fixed the problem. Looking at your log files can reveal a ton of information. [/QUOTE]

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