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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 27 for Windows => Topic started by: wishyouwerehere on December 07, 2020, 09:44:56 am

Title: Freezing
Post by: wishyouwerehere on December 07, 2020, 09:44:56 am
  As a user of the 27th edition of JRiver I have discovered it has a flaw. Regular freezing. Previous editions not as bad.
Title: Re: Freezing
Post by: JimH on December 07, 2020, 09:56:58 am
  As a user of the 27th edition of JRiver I have discovered it has a flaw. Regular freezing. Previous editions not as bad.
Did you configure Windows Defender?

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,114101.0.html
Title: Re: Freezing
Post by: comox on December 07, 2020, 04:07:19 pm
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
Title: Re: Freezing
Post by: rolf_eigenheer on December 08, 2020, 12:48:33 am
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.