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[dg043]

Using Media Centre (15.0.174 Registered) to send a playlist to a WDTV Live Media Player. Plays fine for a while then stops after a few tracks. Sometimes 5 tracks, other times might get 10 played before it stops. It always stops at the very end of a track and the Media Centre GUI freezes. Have to end the process and re-launch to get going again.

[JimH]

Try rebooting the WD when it happens.  Update the WD firmware.

What type of files are you playing?  Is conversion set?

[dg043]

rebooting WD box (as well as restarting Media Centre) will get it working again for a while. WD is at the latest firmware.
Playing mixture of MP3s and WMA files. I have audio conversion set to 'Don't convert audio'.

I've also captured log from a clean start to a 'freeze' if  helps.

[JimH]

Try converting all to MP3.  The WD may have trouble switching.

Make sure you don't have any WM files with DRM (Napster, etc.).

[JimH]

When it happens, just reboot the WD, not MC.  Just to see what happens next.

[Mediahome]

When your WD stops playing does it drop off the list of zones in Playing Now?

I have a MiniHD that does the same thing.  Plays several tracks from a playlist or plays an MP3 stream for a minute or two and then stops.  Go to Playing Now and click on it and it drops of the list but comes back every 30 seconds or so.  It will keep dropping off until you clear its queue.  Restarting the MiniHD by itself does not help.  Kill MC and its services and reboot the MiniHD sometimes gets it going again.  Sometimes rebooting everything works.  Sometimes it just won't play consistently no matter what I do.

When it does play OK I can play an MP3 stream for days but it stops randomly and needs to be restarted (play).  In contrast playing to my old ROKU is solid.  Internet radio streams never stop.  Play lists go on forever.  It just doesn't support native FLAC.

Matt

[Mediahome]

The behavior is the same with MC16.  Actually it is worse.  Now the Roku SoundBridges drop of the Playing Now list.  Every once in a while they reappear but when I click on them they drop off the Playing Now list just like the MiniHD does.

 The Internet Radio stream continues to play to the Roku but I can't control it from MC any more.

Matt

[dg043]

Update after some further testing...

Reproduced the problem sending playlist or album etc to a second WDLive box. Again, it was the Media Center GUI which locked up and needed restarting.
Sending all WMAs or all MP3s didn't make any difference either.

Tried installing 15.0.174 on another XP machine. Worked fine for a while then exhibited the same behaviour.
Cleared my Library and re-imported. Played more then 40 tracks OK, but the next time I sent something to one of the devices, Media Centre locked up at the end of the 5th track.

Didn't see this behaviour at all with 15.0.163. Worth going back?

[Alex B]

Didn't see this behaviour at all with 15.0.163. Worth going back?

Since you apparently cannot try 163 again because of the expired MC15 trial (unless you can try it on some other PC), here are the changes from 164 to 174:

15.0.174 (2/3/2011)

1. Changed: When acquiring images from a camera, the file system dates of the acquired files are set to exactly match the dates of the files on the camera.
2. Changed: Obsidian Touchscreen (or other skins derived from Base 3.xml) will use left-alignment of rollers inside views.
3. Fixed: When switching playback engines (like from a natively supported audio file like an MP3 to a Quicktime file like an M4P) could block waiting for the first file to finish.
4. Changed: Refined how some Quicktime file types are routed to different playback engines.
5. Fixed: A typo on the Output Format DSP page.
6. Fixed: Scheduling recordings and doing file deletes from a library server client would not always sync back to the server.

15.0.173 (1/6/2011)

1. Fixed: If thumbnails were not built for files, Action Window > Tag > Image could incorrectly report <various internal images>.
2. Fixed: Pausing playback on DLNA to the JRiver Id didn't work.

15.0.172 (1/5/2011)

1. Fixed: "DVD Menu" item on OSD menu was shown without any text or graphics during DVD playback.
2. Fixed: Build 171 did not contain a digital signature.

15.0.171 (12/20/2010)

1. Changed: The program will purchase a v16 license instead of a v15 license.
2. Changed: The program will work with a v15 or v16 license.
3. Fixed: Audio CUE files were being read with ANSI encoding so non-English characters were not displayed correctly.

15.0.170 (12/17/2010)

1. Fixed: On a fresh install, a 'Default' entry would not always be available in the list of libraries, making it hard to switch back to the default library after creating a custom library.
2. Changed: When connected to a DLNA library, the program will consider itself connected and show 'Disconnect From Library' in the menu instead of requiring selection of the last library from the libraries menu to disconnect.
3. Changed: Updated Japanese translation (thanks to KANEY).
4. Changed: Google Nexus S appears with the proper name and image instead of showing as a generic Android (may require a redetect of devices).
5. Fixed: Track Info visualizations shows a missing image instead of the logo when playing tracks with no cover art.
6. Fixed: DLNA Server, subtitles (.srt and perhaps .sub) for some BD players requiring the DLNAExtra setting (i.e. Samsung BD-Cx500). May help others as well.

15.0.169 (12/16/2010)

1. Fixed: Restoring library backup settings would not work properly (only applies to last few builds).
2. Changed: OSD menu items are reordered.
3. Changed: On initial invocation of OSD menu, up arrow shows Position OSD, down arrow shows Playing Now (Programs for TV) OSD. Subsequent invocation of OSD menu behaves the same as before - showing menu item last shown. Additional pressing of arrows while the menu is on cycles through the menu as before.

15.0.168 (12/15/2010)

1. Changed: "Change Display Settings" context menu in video engine will list monitor frequencies as low as 24 Hz.
2. Changed: Added "Desktop Settings" to the top of "Change Display Settings" context menu in video engine.
3. Changed: Revised wording of access key option in Options > Media Network.
4. Fixed: Stopping of UDP-based servers for Media Network would sometimes hard-kill a server thread instead of gracefully close it (please report any issues with DLNA device detection).
5. Fixed: Volume OSD was displayed at the beginning of video playback if video was played right after stopping television playback.
6. Changed: Television Programs OSD will display channel name alone if there is no programming info, instead of showing "".
7. Fixed: It was possible to rip a CD while connected to Library Server by using the view header rip button, even though the Action Window would correctly report that the feature is disabled when connected to a library.
8. SDK: Targeting an invalid zone with an MCWS playback command could cause a crash.
9. SDK: ZoneType was not supported properly for some MCWS functions.
10. NEW: The player display area at the top of the program allows the token [Volume] to show the current volume level.

15.0.167 (12/10/2010)

1. Fixed: Cover Art lookup / submission was not available in build 165 and 166.
2. NEW: MCWS/v1/Values uses fuzzy matching and can sort matches by relevance (used by Gizmo).

15.0.166 (12/10/2010)

1. Changed: Improved handling of AIFF files with an invalid block size specified in their SSND header (affected samples from Bravura Records).
2. Fixed: WAV playback issue (only applies to build 165).

15.0.165 (12/9/2010)

1. Fixed: Television playback was broken in build 164.
2. Changed: Made DLNA engine more tolerant of device failures, so a device is less likely to be removed.
3. Changed: Television program cleanup of old programs as specified by subscription options happens each 8 hours instead of only on program shutdown (only happens when no recording or playback is taking place).
4. Fixed: The response to SSDP UDP notifications would unnecessarily return a 500 server error code.
5. Fixed: The program could create unnecessary C:\My Music, C:\My Pictures, and C:\My Videos folders on run.
6. Fixed: Playback of live HTTP WAV or L16 streams did not work nicely (used when acting as a DLNA renderer).

15.0.164 (12/8/2010)

1. Changed: Reworked code that validates the main program's size and visibility so launching after changing monitor configurations will not result in a hidden or oversized window.
2. Fixed: M4a audio was played in video engine instead of audio engine if Playback Method was set to "Automatic".
3. Fixed: M4a audio failed to convert to other formats due to the bug in item 2 above.
4. Fixed: When playing to a DLNA renderer that does not reliably support eventing, playback would not always advance if the renderer was not the active zone.
5. Changed: Reduced the time between track changes for DLNA devices that do not support eventing.
6. NEW: The amount of edge cropping (with the "Crop Edges" option, which is now also available in DVD playback) is now configurable (under General Video Settings).
7. Fixed: Possible dead-locks when switching tabs that contained certain views.
8. SDK: Update MCWS/v1/Library/Values so that it can filter matches, return multiple fields, and sort matches by quality (allows [search suggestions in Gizmo, etc.).

The red items have something to do with DLNA. I hope this can help the developers in finding the cause of your problem (assuming it is one of the changes in 164-174).