[ejose0909]

Hello to everybody

I found a way to avoid the freeze in 1.2.3 and be certain the video will start.
The video files I watch are almost all in the same single shared folder.
When I start WiiMC, I get the network initialization, then I see the files in this folder (let’s name it Share1)
What I do is:
– Start WiiMC. After network initialization, it shows me the content of Share1 (last directory I browsed)
– Press B to return to the root of WiiMC, with SD, USB, Share1, Share2, Share3, Share4, Share5, Share6, Share7, Share8
– Browse to Share2 (see the note * below)
– Press B again
– Browse to Share1 again
– Start the movie I want to watch in Share1

I have been using this method for weeks, and I got absolutly NO freezes.
Before doing that, I was rushing directly to the movie I wanted to watch, and I was getting (like everyone here) unpredictable freezes at the start of the movie.

* Strange thing at this step:
Sometimes It opens Share2 normaly.
Sometimes I get an error in opening SMB share. What I do is click on “Retry”, and it always works. The strange part is that sometimes it displays the content of Share2, sometimes it displays the content of… Share5 !!
In both cases, I continue with the method (B, then browse to Share1, then start the movie). And it works !

I hope this will help those who have the problem to get around it.
And maybe it will help Trantic too to find the cause of the problem and correct it

WiiMC is really a wonderful media player. I really hope the bad freeze bug will soon be solved…

[ejose0909]

@Killshot wrote:

With version 1.2.3 it doesn’t crash. It just freeze and to reboot you have to hard reset wii from the console.

Same here…
I was running version 1.2.2 with no crash, but I had the bad idea of updating my Wii with Pimp My Wii
Then I got the exactly the symptoms described in this thread, with a black screen and restarting in 8 secs.
And with version 1.2.3, the problem remains, except it doesn’t crash with a black screen but the rolling ring freezes instead of starting the movie…

Really, I think the problem came with the update (Pimp My Wii 2.29)
Maybe the new version of IOS58 has compatibility issues ?
If you ask, I can tell you the version of IOS58 I have now, but I can’t tell you the version I had when everything worked with 1.2.2 of WiiMC

I NEVER use a forwarder or a WiiMC Channel.
I ALWAYS use the Homebrew Channel
So for me it doesn’t come from the forwarder itself

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