Confirming that the freezing previously reported by me and confirmed by RoderickGI is still present in 27.0.38, and that it is trivial to reliably reproduce.
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,127593.0.html
In the initial post in the referenced thread comox says that he has several drives. So do I. And I am having the same blocking in GUI operation.
I see that MC can wake up a drive in a background thread without blocking the GUI. But it fails when several drives are involved. I reported this in an earlier thread which was closed without solving.
My Video view contains files from 8 drives. The first 20 titles might be stored on 3 (sleeping) drives. This lets freeze MC for 10-20 seconds. Changing the sub view to 'crime' lists different titles, some stored on other drives. This takes another 10-20 seconds. This repeats 3-4 times until all drives are up and running.
After watching a movie, the other drives sleep again and blocking UI starts from the beginning. Annoying! Yes.
But I found a solution witch works for me:
I disconnect all movie drives from the network until I need it. MediaCenter works perfect without access to the media files. I do search and scroll or whatever with no delays. Only at the latest step, when the movie should start, then I go downstairs and connect that specific drive.
This gives me some extra steps up and down the stairs. But it's way less frustrating than all the 'MediaCenter is not responding' stuff.
