Update: The first few error reports below are from some recent MC beta builds, but not the most recent build. The errors have changed somewhat as the builds changed, although they're all related in that it's normally during ripping or heavy use that the crashes occur... For the error logs from the more recent Media Center 11.1.95 beta build, please scroll down to the later posts on this page....
Hello,
I did look through the MC Crash parts of the FAQ recently, but did not find a great solution to the errors I've been seeing with MC 11.1… I may have missed something, but I thought I'd post the errors here in case this info could be of any use while 11.1 is still being perfected.
Primarily:
I've been experiencing a lot of crashes and some freezes and massive slow-downs since installing the last few MC 11.1 Beta's. I don't really know what I'm looking at with the logs, exactly, but it seems like the crashes may be related to the new MC Podcast functions. Is CinternetReader part of the Podcast updating process? Because CinternetReader seems to be running right before the crashes as well….
I'm not saying that it's actually a problem with the way the Podcast and CinternetReader functions are working in and of themselves, but perhaps Podcast/CinternetReader just happens to be the straw that breaks the camel's back, so to speak, when other resource-consuming processes are going on (in the examples below, I'm almost always ripping a CD and/or playing music while tagging files when the program fizzles out).
Now, I didn't keep a log of every single crash, but here are some of the latest:
While trying to rip a CD – while MC was contacting the CD info database (YADB) -- the program froze momentarily and then closed of it's own accord. From the look of the log, MC was also trying to update Podcast info at the same time:
0009625: Reader: CDownloadUIDlg::StartDownload: Finish (422 ms)
0009625: General: CPodcastWorker[1]: Download Complete
0009625: General: CPodcastMain::HandleWorkComplete: Start
0009625: General: CPodcastMain::MarkExistingEpisodes: Start
0009625: General: CPodcastMain::MarkExistingEpisodes: Begin Database Search
0009656: General: CPodcastMain::MarkExistingEpisodes: Compare to existing Episodes
0009656: General: CPodcastMain::MarkExistingEpisodes: Adding Episodes
0009656: General: CPodcastMain::MarkExistingEpisodes: Finish (31 ms)
0009656: General: CPodcastWorker[1]: Finish (453 ms)
0009656: General: CPodcastMain::HandleWorkComplete: Finish (31 ms)
0009656: General: CPodcastMain::Update: Start
0009656: General: CPodcastWorker[1]: Start
0009656: General: CPodcastMain::Update: Finish (0 ms)
0009671: General: CPodcastWorker[1]: Download Feed:
http://triplej.net.au/events/ausmusicmonth/podcast.xml0009671: Reader: CDownloadUIDlg::StartDownload: Start
0009671: Reader: CDownloadUIDlg::StartDownload: Starting download. URL =
http://triplej.net.au/events/ausmusicmonth/podcast.xml0009671: Reader: CDownloadUIDlg::RequestThreadProc: Start
0009687: Reader: CInternetReader::Open: Start
0009687: Reader: CInternetReader::Open: Opening
http://triplej.net.au/events/ausmusicmonth/podcast.xml0009687: Reader: CInternetReader::ConnectToURL: Start
0009687: Reader: CInternetReader::DownloadFromHTTPURL: Start
Later: While playing MP3s I also had two CDs in my CD drives (which I wasn't playing, but which MC was aware of). Suddenly, MC becomes very sluggish. Eventually, it becomes unresponsive. I eject the CDs that are in the drives (one of the CD drive lights was blinking, making me think that MC might be still trying to access it). Coincidentally or not, MC now becomes slightly responsive, letting me click on things but not playing music.
I choose to close the program: It takes a few seconds, but finally it closes. But then it won't reopen. I wait a while, and it still won't reopen. I know from past experiences that I'll now have to manually terminate the processes or reboot in order to restart MC, but that doing either of these things will get MC to load again, only with some data lost. Once again, the log seems to indicate that the Podcast feeds were being checked when the error occurred:
Starting download. URL =
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio2/chrisevans-thebestbits/rss.xml0019609: Reader: CDownloadUIDlg::RequestThreadProc: Start
0019609: Reader: CInternetReader::Open: Start
0019609: Reader: CInternetReader::Open: Opening
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio2/chrisevans-thebestbits/rss.xml0019609: Reader: CInternetReader::ConnectToURL: Start
0019609: Reader: CInternetReader::DownloadFromHTTPURL: Start
0019890: Reader: CInternetReader::DownloadFromHTTPURL: Success
0019890: Reader: CInternetReader::DownloadFromHTTPURL: Finish (281 ms)
0019890: Reader: CInternetReader::ConnectToURL: Finish (281 ms)
0019890: Reader: CInternetReader::Open: Finish (281 ms)
0020000: Reader: CInternetReader::Close: Start
0020094: Reader: CInternetReader::Close: Finish (94 ms)
0020094: Reader: CInternetReader::Close: Start
0020203: Reader: CInternetReader::Close: Finish (109 ms)
0020203: Reader: CDownloadUIDlg::RequestThreadProc: Finish (594 ms)
0020219: Reader: CDownloadUIDlg::StartDownload: Finished download. Return Value = 1 ()
0020219: Reader: CDownloadUIDlg::StartDownload: Finish (625 ms)
0020219: General: CPodcastWorker[0]: Download Complete
0020219: General: CPodcastMain::HandleWorkComplete: Start
0020219: General: CPodcastMain::MarkExistingEpisodes: Start
0020219: General: CPodcastMain::MarkExistingEpisodes: Begin Database Search
0020234: General: CPodcastMain::MarkExistingEpisodes: Compare to existing Episodes
0020234: General: CPodcastMain::MarkExistingEpisodes: Adding Episodes
0020234: General: CPodcastMain::MarkExistingEpisodes: Finish (15 ms)
0020234: General: CPodcastWorker[0]: Finish (687 ms)
0020234: General: CPodcastMain::HandleWorkComplete: Finish (15 ms)
0020234: General: CPodcastMain::Update: Start
0020234: General: CPodcastWorker[0]: Start
0020234: General: CPodcastMain::Update: Finish (0 ms)
0020250: General: CPodcastWorker[0]: Download Feed:
http://triplej.net.au/events/ausmusicmonth/podcast.xml0020422: Reader: CDownloadUIDlg::StartDownload: Start
0020422: Reader: CDownloadUIDlg::StartDownload: Starting download. URL =
http://triplej.net.au/events/ausmusicmonth/podcast.xml0020453: Reader: CDownloadUIDlg::RequestThreadProc: Start
0020453: Reader: CInternetReader::Open: Start
0020453: Reader: CInternetReader::Open: Opening
http://triplej.net.au/events/ausmusicmonth/podcast.xml0020484: Reader: CInternetReader::ConnectToURL: Start
0020484: Reader: CInternetReader::DownloadFromHTTPURL: Start