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@mdk wrote:

hi, have a Western Digital Elements 1TB. formatted on a Mac OSX to FAT32. Wiimc version 1.1.4

Movies start playing ok but after 5-20 min they stop and wiimc goes to startup screen with no usb detected. Wii freezes have to press power off on wii to start up again.

Works fine on MPlayer CE.

Ran test crashed wii on bottom port. Top port worked, failed on one test.

I begin to think that we have a memory leak in usbstorage.c
I’ll try to create a wiimc version with debug info, so we save it to sd for debugging pourposes.

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@BoulderDash wrote:

Where do you place the ‘restore_points’ file?

I experience those heavy crashes as well. WiiMC is unusuable. Sometimes i can make it into the video player in maybe 1 of 3 tries.

Tantric, let me guess. It doesn’t crash for you, you don’t have a 4.3 and there’s nothing you can do about it.

What IOS is used by WiiMC? IOS58? Do you recommend any alternative or custom IOS, patches or something?

create a empty file restore_points in wiimc folder
if you get codedumps then I need the stack dump info

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@sfou38 wrote:

I had version 1.1.4 and I was able to play a video. I upgraded to 1.1.5 last night and try to play the same video. I had an error saying that the resolution was above 1280×720 and could not play. I had to downgrade back to 1.1.4 to be able to continue watching my video.
I don’t mind updating but 1.1.5 forbids me to watch this video. Is this intended behavior?
Thanks for your help.

Can you play that video smoothly in 1.1.4?
We can change this limit but I’d like to get a sample from that video (http://www.wiimc.org/report-a-bug/ step 4 ) for testing, then I’ll make a special version for you to test it.

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@kevinaz wrote:

Sandisk Cruzer 4GB
Works fine with MPlayerCE, but is not recognised by WiiMC…
Here is the Log file, the USB Pen passed all the tests but did not respond on Wake Up test…

Hope you will solve this problem in next releases 😀

[attachment=0:2ctol1hq]log_usb.txt[/attachment:2ctol1hq]

Uhmm, your device must work with wiimc, please check partitions, and reformat it.

@plasticpalmtree wrote:

Hi please find attached the log for my incompatible USB device.

thanks,

Nat

Your device can’t be initializated. It’s strange, I’ll make a special usb test for you, please email me
rodries at wiimc.org

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Maybe jhb50 or clava can create a new thread in forum to select 2 or 3 enhacements to port them, something like a thread to vote the enhacements to port.
Then jhb50, clava, Tantric and me can discuss the port.
At now I’m busy porting/cleaning gx_supp.c code from Extrems (mpce) but I’ll be glad to help to add some enhacements from wiimc plus.

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@jhb50 wrote:

No, its another example of WIIMC+ not attempting to rewrite or modify the WIIMC design but rather to extend the functionality of WIIMC with an optional enhancement based on the existing WIIMC design, so as to ensure the greatest compatibility between the two implementations, and so as not to introduce bugs exclusive to WIIMC+. If and when WIIMC makes its Restore Points dynamic then WIIMC+ will do the same, just as it did when the browser was rewritten.

Instead make a non optimal solution, why not improve wiimc so we can port it?
I like some of your ideas, but the implementation is not optimal. For example we have rewritten the file browser in a better way to improve the space memory, so if you improve restore points in a similar way we can port it to official wiimc.
At now I’m very busy at job, but when I ‘ll have some free time I’ll try to discuss with you and Tantric the port of some of your ideas.
I think a good idea is make 1 patch for 1 improvement so we can analyze and discuss with you one by one.

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@the100thmonkey wrote:

Many thanks, Rodries.

A beta for testing: http://www.mediafire.com/?4qzfixkh0pbw1gn

@Atlanx wrote:

Have problems with OGG-Movie files, too.

Is there an option to let WiiMC let the coredump write into an txt file to the sd-card instead of only displaying it on screen?

No, if you get a codedump then the memory can be corrupted so writting to a file is very dangerous

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@the100thmonkey wrote:

No replies!

Is there any way i can improve the post – provide more data or provide details of the audio files being played, for example?

I think it’s fixed in svn
I’ll publish a beta in irc channel soon (see topic)

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@IqAndreas wrote:

Is there any way to enable some sort of “debug mode” with really verbose logging?

Then I have more to give these fine developers than just a “it’s not working right”.

you need an usbgecko to get debug info
Anayway we can fix errors faster when you get a codedump (stack dump) or if you can reproduce the error easily.

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@clava wrote:

… it works but I fear we changed the right execution flow!

The right code should be:

if(__mounted) {

if (__usbfd.sector_size[__lun]==2048) {

// dvd requires further checks

u32 sectorsize, numSectors;

if (USBStorage_ReadCapacity(&__usbfd, __lun, &sectorsize, &numSectors) < 0)

return false;

else

return true;

} else

return true;

}

Rigth
@clava wrote:

I tested IOS61 calling IOS_ReloadIOS(61) at the beginnig of the wiimc’s main (is it right?). Unfortunately I got an exception when I connected the usb dvd device. Next days I’ll try to catch the stack dump.

It’s rigth, the problem is that ios61 is using usb1 so it’s handled in a different way.
Maybe you can create a simple test program to debug it.
Also you have to use the very last usbstorage.c from libogc becuase there were 2 bugs

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@steslatt wrote:

I cant run version 1.1.2 on my wii, it just comes up with a black screen saying error, reload in 8 seconds then i have to reset the wii. I have had to go back to 1.1.1 and this works fine.

http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1131

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@oibaf wrote:

I don’t know if this can help.
I had the same problem of core dump and exception DSI with an HDD formatted with 2 primary partitions, one NTFS and the other WBFS. I set the NTFS partition as an active partition with Vista and now I don’t have core dump any more.

The codedump was related to a bug in libogc, more bugs found, we will release a new wiimc to fix all this bugs

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@clava wrote:

@Rodries
@rodries wrote:

Seems that the only way to detect if the dvd is inserted is calling to USBStorage_ReadCapacity
So if you use my old USBStorage_IsDVD then it will return 0 if dvd is not inserted

What about adding something like this:

if(__mounted) {

u32 sectorsize, numSectors;

if (USBStorage_ReadCapacity(&__usbfd, __lun, &sectorsize, &numSectors) < 0)

return false;

else

return true;

}

at the beginning of __usbstorage_IsInserted()? It works in wiimc 😀

uhmm, I think we can add another condition to check only if the usb device is a dvd, only for security

if(__mounted && __usbfd.sector_size[__lun]==2048) {  //mounted and a dvd

u32 sectorsize, numSectors;

if (USBStorage_ReadCapacity(&__usbfd, __lun, &sectorsize, &numSectors) < 0)

return false;

else

return true;

}

Can you test it using a ios different from ios58?
I want to be sure that works with usb1 and not only with usb2
__mounted is handled in a different way in usb1

Also Tantric has to commit 2 fixes in usbstorage.c I guess he will do it very soon

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Try this:
http://www.wiimc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1131

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@werewolferx wrote:

Recently I got some movie collection compressed in RMVB (Real Media) and came with extra SRT (subtitle) files with it. When playing trough WIIMC the video plays just fine, but subtitles never load or play. 😮

Then tested MPLAYER CE to check if it was my mistake and surprise, surprice… The video and subtitles play smootly and no delay what so ever. 😯

Then make a discovery, the video shows better in MPLAYER CE than on WIIMC, there seems like there is a misscolor problem, probably there is a different color depth used, seems like playing 16b graphics (65K colors) versus 24b (16.7M colors) on MPLAYER CE. That decreases a lot of banding on colors when playing videos compressed in almost all codecs supported by these two great media players. :geek:

I know that enabling more color depht makes the memory used bigger, and that has been a concern with the WIIMC coding, so please check the possibility of this. 😀

Keep up the good work. Hope this information helps the scene. :geek:

Very strange, wiimc & mplayer_ce use the same base
can you test this beta? http://www.mediafire.com/?pq98rtvnxbpnt9x
If the problem persist I’ll need a video & a sub file to test
send to my email links: rodries at wiimc.org

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