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Video playback occasionally stops (Red October HQ)

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voodoo5_6k:
I hadn't forgotten this thread, but I had no issues for a while with DVD playback. Of course, yesterday, when I forgot to start a capture, the issue reappeared. Playback stopped (paused), then recovered and froze again, no recovery. Looking at the madVR OSD showed that all queues were 0-1, exactly like it looks when I intentionally pause the playback. The same issue in the logs, as always...

Sample:
4700626: 9320: Playback: COutputPluginAudioRenderer::DoRenderSample: Dropping sample because it is too late; Error: -13975.010

I'm still on the same driver (nVidia), but JRiver has of course updated a few times as has Windows.

voodoo5_6k:
OK, I took some action ;)

The "old" setup relied on SMB shares mounted in Windows to access the data. I wanted to look at another setup, in which MediaCenter would be responsible for transferring the data across the network.

I now have set up a VM on my NAS, installed the current Debian release, fiddled around until I somehow got a working desktop via VNC, mounted the dataset, installed MediaCenter 27, started the Media Network/Media Server, and imported a test file (a DVD as an *.iso image).

On the HTPC, I connected to the Media Server to gain access to the library, selected the DVD *.iso and waited for it to load. After it had received enough data, the file was automatically mounted via VirtualCloneDrive (like it should have been, as my BDs are all stored as *.iso). MediaCenter asked what it should do with the new DVD, and I selected "play" and unchecked "ask each time". And now, the DVD is playing.

Seems like I've got the test setup running. Now, import the entire data to the library and test... I have 29 days left (I should have bought the master license ;)). If this works OK (or if I don't come to any conclusive results during the trial period), I'll upgrade my Windows license to a master license.

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