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Title: Media Editor Decoder Freezing
Post by: AaronAve on January 17, 2003, 12:06:42 pm

Hi all:

I was having the YADB vs. CDDB issue this week so I went ahead and changed to Media Center 9.  The recording of my cassettes was going fine, but today I needed to rip a track in half and so tried to open media editor.  I was able to open the program, then I went to open file, clicked on the file and then the "decoding" screen came up and it never started decoding...just sat there frozen.

Any ideas?  The media editor was working great on MJ 8.

Aaron

Title: Re: Media Editor Decoder Freezing
Post by: JimH on January 17, 2003, 12:22:57 pm

Decoding to wav can take a long time.  What type of file was it?  How long?  Can you play the file?

Is your temp directory full?

Title: Re: Media Editor Decoder Freezing
Post by: AaronAve on January 17, 2003, 12:28:55 pm

Hi Jim,

Yes, I've seen some files take a really long time.  This was just a 6 minute, two-song, track that I was going to separate.  The temp directory is empty.  It's a MC9 file (just ripped off of cassette).

I wouldn't be concerned if there was progress being shown in the progress bar...but there is nothing...it never starts decoding.

Aaron

Title: Re: Media Editor Decoder Freezing
Post by: JimH on January 17, 2003, 12:37:32 pm

Try leaving it for 20 minutes just to be sure.

Make sure you can play it first.

Title: OkayRe: Media Editor Decoder Freezing
Post by: AaronAve on January 17, 2003, 12:59:29 pm

okay, done...no progress.  The file does play.

Aaron ?

Title: Re: Media Editor Decoder Freezing
Post by: JimH on January 17, 2003, 01:11:49 pm

In Windows Explorer, Empty Recycle Bin.

In IE, do Tools/Internet Options/Temporary Internet Files/Delete Files.  This can take several minutes.

How fast is your machine?  You can paste your system info here.  Copy from MC Help's System info.

Title: Re: Media Editor Decoder Freezing
Post by: AaronAve on January 17, 2003, 01:35:30 pm

Deleting the files did not help.  Here is the system info:

Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.98 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Jukebox\

Microsoft Windows 2000  Workstation 5.0 Service Pack 2 (Build 2195)
Intel Pentium III 930 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 259 MB, Free - 90 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2600.0000 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.81 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2600.0000
Shell32.dll: 5.00.3315.2902 / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer

Ripping /   Drive E:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: No /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive E: SAMSUNG  CDRW/DVD SM-308B   Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:8  MaxSpeed:8  Use MJ Engine:Yes
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

Title: Re: Media Editor Decoder Freezing
Post by: JimH on January 17, 2003, 02:50:54 pm

Could you try a small file?  One minute or less?

Title: Re: Media Editor Decoder Freezing
Post by: AaronAve on January 21, 2003, 07:48:46 am

Yes, I was able to open a very small file.  Is there a setting default on MC that is causing this difficulty?  When I was using MJ8 just last week, I was able to open even the very large files (10+ minutes) quite easily on the same computer.

Aaron

Title: Re: Media Editor Decoder Freezing
Post by: AaronAve on January 22, 2003, 01:28:39 pm

Any feedback on this issue?  I'm still stuck.

Aaron :o :-[

Title: Re: Media Editor Decoder Freezing
Post by: Matt on January 22, 2003, 01:44:24 pm

We're in the process of changing our decoding engine for MC 9.  Media Editor should get updated sometime in the next few weeks.

Thanks for hanging in there, and sorry for the hassles.

Title: Re: Media Editor Decoder Freezing
Post by: AaronAve on January 22, 2003, 01:50:55 pm

Will there be some notification to us when it is ready to upgrade?

Aaron

Title: Re: Media Editor Decoder Freezing
Post by: JimH on January 22, 2003, 02:25:15 pm

We will try, but check back here too.