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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 26 for Windows => Topic started by: TorqW on April 05, 2020, 03:17:25 am
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Now the kids are old enough, I’ve added back YouTube as one of the options (albeit nested). However, whenever I select it JRiver hangs. It’s the same issue whether I select it on the client or server.
Has anyone else experienced this?
I’m running vers 26.0.47.
Thanks as ever for any advice.
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Exact same problem here. As soon as you select youtube, you get the Windows 7 "spinning blue ring" and it's hung until you kill MC.
Whether General->Features->Streaming is enabled or disabled has no impact on the crashing.
I do not have a youtube-dl directory in the plugins directory. Downloaded the plugin manually and put the exe there, didn't help.
No firewall or antivirus running. That's not it.
I know there were issues recently with Youtube in MC that required program changes. Is this actually supposed to be working at the moment?
Here's the hang data:
Description:
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: Media Center 26.exe
Application Version: 26.0.47.0
Application Timestamp: 5e829bfd
Hang Signature: 6737
Hang Type: 0
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: 67377c8682e4cec1f2f9beaeb8454a58
Additional Hang Signature 2: f5e2
Additional Hang Signature 3: f5e2b5b449ddaadeacb46df5644c2bb7
Additional Hang Signature 4: 6737
Additional Hang Signature 5: 67377c8682e4cec1f2f9beaeb8454a58
Additional Hang Signature 6: f5e2
Additional Hang Signature 7: f5e2b5b449ddaadeacb46df5644c2bb7
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Interestingly, the Trailers function in Theater View does work fine playing trailers from Youtube, even though trying to use the YouTube menu item in Theater View causes this hang.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Yep, it is broken. It is supposed to be working.
MC still has a little memory and network activity, so not completely dead. But it isn't responding to Windows, so effectively dead.
YouTube sign in is no longer working in MC anyway, so I just use a browser these days, because I want the personalised experience. I need to log in for that.
Reference: https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,124329.0.html
YouTube still works in Standard View (sort of), just without being able to sign in.
PS: The trailers function just needs to download the trailer video, for which it uses the free youtube-dl.exe program and the URL from TheMovieDB which is saved in the [Trailer] field by the "Get Movie & TV Info" function, and then play the video. So no sign in required, and no App interface. Much simpler.
PPS: MC still doesn't return to the YouTube main page after a video is played, which is annoying. It has been doing that forever, when you select the "Play the file inside the player" option to play through the MC engine. That's why I said it sort of works in Standard View.
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Thanks for the report. I have reproduced. It's only the release build and not the debugger so we'll need to riddle a while. Thanks.
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Ok thanks Matt.
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While you are looking at it again Matt, it would be great if the sign-in and other issues of not returning to the menu YouTube page and so on could be solved.
I know, not an easy task. But without reproducing something like the normal YouTube experience produced with a signed-in user, playing through MC is a limited experience.
I am using YouTube a lot during the Coronavirus lockdown. It is okay using Chrome, but it could be better!