[whiskeycoke]

To bring up a (slightly) old topic; Since updating to version 1.2.3, crashes became *constant* upon loading a file. For a time, I reverted myself to 1.2.2, which helped, until doing routine updates to my media server, which conicedentally seems to have isolated where my crashes lie.

Upon updating my Debian Squeeze machine to Samba version 3.5.6 (current stable) even version 1.2.2 of WiiMC seemed to crash upon loading 80% or more of video files. I was unable to isolate it to any specific file. Switching WiiMC to load my media via FTP has removed 100% of crashes thus far, and I have played a few dozen files at this point.

I decided then to re-update WiiMC to 1.2.3, and indeed loading the same files via FTP rather than SMB results in no crashes. Even loading via the channel loader (which has been forbidden for me since I posted last september about it) successfully loads and plays all files with no crash dumps in sight.

Somehow WiiMC and Samba do not mix well. Exactly how is beyond my capabilities in determining, but I thought it helpful to share. I have (so far) solved all my crashing issues by connecting to my same media via FTP.

If I have not said it previously, thanks Tantric for a great piece of software, keep up the good work, you have brought *plenty* of usefulness to the Wii well and beyond what nintendo could envision.

-darkwind

[whiskeycoke]

it’s been a few days with the new channel loader:

Thus far things are much better. I have experienced one consistant crash on a file, which was again solved by loading via HBC instead. The unusual bit is that it’s intermittent, I can turn the Wii off, load it the next day, and things will be fine, all other settings (including remote SMB server) are the same.

The circumstances related to the crash as far as I’ve narrowed it down seem to indicate its more likely to crash/dump (via channel loader) when WiiMC is the first thing loaded when the wii is powered on. If I for example load netflix first, then back to menu, no crash. I have not done enough testing to be 100% certain however.

I still have yet to experience a crash/dump when loaded via HBC. *Maybe* many versions ago long before 1.0…. 🙂

-darkwind

[whiskeycoke]

@Tantric wrote:

Could you give this new channel a try and let me know if it helps?

http://www.wiimc.org/files/new-channel.zip/

1st impressions are good. The files that would consistantly crash are no longer doing so. Will give it a few days and report back. 🙂

-darkwind

[whiskeycoke]

For what its worth…
I’ve been experiencing similar crashes, and I have narrowed it down to the channel loader (the 1.8 available here). WiiMC will crash on load with various video files that it previously played just fine — when WiiMC is loaded via the channel. If I load it via the homebrew channel, no issues whatsoever.

All my videos are exclusively loaded over SMB.

My Wii is v4.2U, with priiloader installed, and ios58 loaded manually.

-darkwind

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