Can no longer shutdown VLC streams

[lokiMidgard]

I am running latest vlc-shares on Windows XP. I am no longer able to shut down vlc streams. The dashboard indicates- VLC state: not spawned. This issue started recently and I am not sure what has changed to cause this. I have reinstalled vlc-shares as well as vlc with no success. I can stream videos but, when I want to stop the video I am no longer given the option to shutdown and I must stop all vlc streams in the Windows task manger. My wife’s laptop running Windows 7 64-bit does not have this problem. Any ideas or suggestions?

[zany130]

Open an issue in the tracker (https://code.google.com/p/vlc-shares/issues/list) and attach a debug log….

XP Home or XP Professional?

[lokiMidgard]

OK I submitted the issue in the tracker. I am running XP home. As stated previously, vlc-shares works well until recently on this computer. Also, I did not see a way to clear the log of old data- is there a way to do that?

[zany130]

vlc-shares requires the tasklist command that is not available in XP HOME. I hope you added the tasklist.exe file in WIndowsSystem32 folder.

Anyway, i made some changes in r579. Apply changes and confirm, please.

To clear the log:
you only have to go inside the %TMP directory (start->execute->type %TMP->press Enter) and delete the vlc-share.debug.log file.

PS:

reading your debug log i found this problem also:

[31/05/2011 16:47:09] [EEE] (MegavideoController::premiumAction:446) Error while writing jar file. Check permissions. Everything will work, but much more slower

Check “vlc-shares/data/” folder permissions. It looks like is not writable

PPS:

Can i ask you why you use transcoded mode for megavideo files? Doesn’t it work well in direct mode? (i’m just curious)

[lokiMidgard]

Thank you I will check into this today. I only used transcoded mode on Megavideo to try to recreate the problem. I first noticed the issue when I was using transcoded mode on a H.264 encoded movie from my PC.

[lokiMidgard]

Changing the folder permissions seems to have fixed the issue. What is the official method to apply trunk changes? Delete old data then copy and paste new data into the file?

[zany130]

Replace the file (library/X/Vlc/Adapter/Windows.php) with the updated one (https://vlc-shares.googlecode.com/svn-history/r579/trunk/library/X/Vlc/Adapter/Windows.php

)

[lokiMidgard]

Got it. Thank you Ximarx!

[marwan330]

I had the same problem with an install of VLCShares: 0.5.4, VLC vlc-1.1.9-win32.exe on a fresh install of Win7 Pro. I am using an older version of WiiMC .

I found the solutions was to change/reapply Full Control permissions to the USER group within c:Program FilesVLCShares . I did this same thing originally upon install of VLC Shares, so I am unsure why it did not stick. I do run VLC Shares under a User with Limited User rights, so that I don’t attract viruses, spyware and such. This is my torrent machine as well 🙂 Easy way to stop all sorts of crudowear.

EDIT: I have not yet done Xmarks change to library/X/Vlc/Adapter/Windows.php as I want to see how the Permissions change fixes the issue.

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