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Yup, that beta seems to work for me – no problems with the network initialization part hanging.

Btw I still have the same problems as in 1.2.2 and 1.2.3 – watching certain videos – seems like problem just moved around for some reason – have problems with different files now. Both my build and your beta build. It is all very strange.

[pragy]

I have had problems with wiimc crashing on certain video files (mostly avi and mp4) in 1.2.2 – maybe they started when HBC was updated – I can’t remember. I did however find a workaround which consisted of always starting a certain .rm video file or .mpg file before starting anything else – this always worked. Until 1.2.3 – which froze (no crash) when starting ALL video files.

Being a software developer myself I followed the compile instructions and built the 1.2.3 version myself – funnily enough this version now always hung when initiating the network instead – although it should’ve been built from the same source as the official 1.2.3 – unless the devkit itself had been bumped one revision after the official 1.2.3 was built – not sure. Anyway, I looked through the network initialization code and didn’t find anything that would cause this change in behaviour. Debugging it a bit I found that the net_init_async() call returned immediately so I looked at the libogc code – where I found that the current libogc (1.8.9) introduced a change in net_init_async() that was recently reverted. So I pulled down the latest libogc source and build it – and then rebuilt wiimc against this version.

This version seems to fix the network initialization problem – and I have yet to make it crash when playing a video file – so it looks really good so far.

This version can be found here for this willing or desperate 🙂 to try: http://pallansson.homeip.net/wiimc.zip

And last, but not least, my warmest thanks for a great piece of software!

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