Centrafuse RC2 Bugs - Page 8

Lum · 08-16-2006, 03:10 PM

I found some minor bugs in the installer.

1) Uninstalling RC1 failed due to insufficient disk space on C:\ (I have CF installed on D:\) fixed by temporarily disabling hibernate to get 480mb back)

2) Installing RC2 wrongly claims that I need 79MB of free space on C:\, (again, temporaily disabling hibernate fixes this problem)

3) The text that appears in the top bar, just below the titlebar and to the left of the CF logo uses a font that is not present on my system and thus becomes a very blocky large version of MS Sans Serif

4) The installer window is too tall to display on an 852x480 screen, even with the taskbar positioned over to the side. The scrollbar is appreciated but would it be possible to make it a lot smaller please?

Not found any major bugs with the app itself yet, a couple of minor ones though.

It sometimes takes a very long time to respond to mousedown / mouseup events, something which is made doubly annoying by the fact that it queues them. examples:

1) Press pause
2) Wait 5 seconds, nothing happens
3) Assume you missed so press it again
4) Wait another 5 seconds, music stops then instantly starts again.

or

1) Press Volume down and release
2) Volume dialogue box appears, volume drops to zero and does not go away
3) 5 seconds later it goes away, press volume up and it goes all the way to max again.

In both cases, removing my USB memory key (that was there when CF started) seemed to reduce the issue, but there is still sometimes a 2 second delay on the pause button.

Merzbow · 08-17-2006, 12:28 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by veetid

I will look into adding something to sort when playing by directories... This is not the way it was really designed to work, but added for those users that do not like to read their music into a library...

I use to play that way until I fixed all my tag information... It shouldn't be a big deal to add...

david

Thanks.

midiwall · 08-17-2006, 09:49 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by veetid

I will look into adding something to sort when playing by directories... This is not the way it was really designed to work, but added for those users that do not like to read their music into a library...

Hmmm, well, I wouldn't be on the griping side if the library loader was faster and smarter.

My H10 has about 800 WMA tracks on it. When I plug it into my desktop, Media Player pops up it's small dialog and just flys through the drive looking for things it doesn't already know about. When there's nothing new on the drive, it's ready to go in about 20 seconds.

When I do this with CF running, it takes forever - about 10 minutes, it seems to be pulling tags from EVERYTHING, not just new stuff.

When we looked at this problem with our player firmware core (used by IRiver, Apple iPod, Samsung, Creative and others) we built a local database of tracks along with the drive letter you found them on. That will give you enough to create a unique key that you can search on. When you see a player connect, start ripping through the drive, building a key. If the key's in the DB, skip it, if not, parse the track and add the key.

It creates an issue with managing deletions, but that's an easier problem to solve than making the user wait minutes each time the player's plugged in.

veetid · 08-17-2006, 10:56 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by midiwall

Hmmm, well, I wouldn't be on the griping side if the library loader was faster and smarter.

My H10 has about 800 WMA tracks on it. When I plug it into my desktop, Media Player pops up it's small dialog and just flys through the drive looking for things it doesn't already know about. When there's nothing new on the drive, it's ready to go in about 20 seconds.

When I do this with CF running, it takes forever - about 10 minutes, it seems to be pulling tags from EVERYTHING, not just new stuff.

When we looked at this problem with our player firmware core (used by IRiver, Apple iPod, Samsung, Creative and others) we built a local database of tracks along with the drive letter you found them on. That will give you enough to create a unique key that you can search on. When you see a player connect, start ripping through the drive, building a key. If the key's in the DB, skip it, if not, parse the track and add the key.

It creates an issue with managing deletions, but that's an easier problem to solve than making the user wait minutes each time the player's plugged in.

I have it on my list of things to speed up and look into, data CD and USB devices load time...

The initial scan of the library will take some time, but you should only have to do that once... We also plan to build a service that monitors your music directories so you do not have to rebuilt the library when you add music via copying from a drive or network...

david

midiwall · 08-17-2006, 01:06 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by veetid

The initial scan of the library will take some time, but you should only have to do that once...

Do you mean that it should work like this today, in 1.6/1.7? It doesn't...

Quote:

We also plan to build a service that monitors your music directories so you do not have to rebuilt the library when you add music via copying from a drive or network...

There ya' go... now I like you again.

Lum · 08-17-2006, 01:18 PM

Found an annoying bug.

was driving along, playing an MP3. I pressed the menu button which turned blue and nothing else happened.

The music carried on just fine, but the UI never responded again. Had to end task CF to regain control.

Also the following bugs are still present that have been there since 1.6

Music is at full volume after resume from hibernate.
Blank screen after resume from hibernate, requiring either lots of random button mashing, or a 10-15 minute wait for it to appear. The buttons still work though, so if you click in the right place, you can start/pause the music etc.

RPM_VR4 · 08-17-2006, 04:43 PM

I'm getting a divide by 0 error when switching playlists. This is reproducible. I load one music list and two video playlists. When I startup CF, I can cycle through them all once... on the second time around a divide by 0 error pops up and clicking ok kills CF. Once again, there is no error.log file

VMS · 08-18-2006, 08:00 PM

I hibernate everything, never had these problems. Hibernate works find, GPS comes on immediately and music starts at the volume you left it. Even if its on mute.

Quote: Originally Posted by Lum

Found an annoying bug.

was driving along, playing an MP3. I pressed the menu button which turned blue and nothing else happened.

The music carried on just fine, but the UI never responded again. Had to end task CF to regain control.

Also the following bugs are still present that have been there since 1.6

Music is at full volume after resume from hibernate.
Blank screen after resume from hibernate, requiring either lots of random button mashing, or a 10-15 minute wait for it to appear. The buttons still work though, so if you click in the right place, you can start/pause the music etc.

Lum · 08-18-2006, 08:08 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by VMS

I hibernate everything, never had these problems. Hibernate works find, GPS comes on immediately and music starts at the volume you left it. Even if its on mute.

I suspect it may be to do with me using a USB soundcard. Are you using something else like PCI or onboard?

VMS · 08-18-2006, 11:34 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Lum

I suspect it may be to do with me using a USB soundcard. Are you using something else like PCI or onboard?

Nah, no soundcards at the moment. My firewire soundcard is on its way so i'll see if that effects hibernate. Don't think it should though

ont · 08-20-2006, 03:20 PM

After restarting CF it doesn't remember the playlist correctly. I have a mapped network drive with around 700 songs on it and load the complete library (these 700 songs). Next time I start CF there are only the first hundreds of songs in the playlist. the number of songs it remembers is random per restart, varying between 100 and 400 songs. pretty annoying

midiwall · 08-20-2006, 03:42 PM

XM bugs

XM Direct in RC2 is better (it works!

), but there are some issues with the pre-buffering. A couple of bugs show up in this sequence of events:

Pick a station and wait for buffer to load. (load wait time already listed as a bug - even just a "buffering" message would be good)
Audio output is static while buffer is loading. Sounds like you're already playing back from the buffer. (suggestion: don't start playback until buffer is primed)
Audio playback starts, but there are two playback threads running, about 1.5 seconds apart. It sounds like one is "live" and one is delayed from the FIFO.
Press PAUSE. The "front" thread is paused and playback is now just from the "other" thread.
Switch stations
Once the buffer primes with the new station, BOTH playback threads start again. (interesting effect when switching from a techno mix to rock... eww)
Set some stations as favorites
Pick "FAV", select a station
Let play for 10 seconds, select another station
repeat 2 more times
Stations will now constantly rotate through your selections, with the buffer overlapping

veetid · 08-20-2006, 11:50 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by midiwall

XM bugs

XM Direct in RC2 is better (it works!

), but there are some issues with the pre-buffering. A couple of bugs show up in this sequence of events:

Pick a station and wait for buffer to load. (load wait time already listed as a bug - even just a "buffering" message would be good)
Audio output is static while buffer is loading. Sounds like you're already playing back from the buffer. (suggestion: don't start playback until buffer is primed)
Audio playback starts, but there are two playback threads running, about 1.5 seconds apart. It sounds like one is "live" and one is delayed from the FIFO.
Press PAUSE. The "front" thread is paused and playback is now just from the "other" thread.
Switch stations
Once the buffer primes with the new station, BOTH playback threads start again. (interesting effect when switching from a techno mix to rock... eww)
Set some stations as favorites
Pick "FAV", select a station
Let play for 10 seconds, select another station
repeat 2 more times
Stations will now constantly rotate through your selections, with the buffer overlapping

I am looking into these issues. As for the issue of hearing two audio sources. Do you have the playback of your line in channel un-mutued? Because it should be muted and if muted, it will stay muted and Centrafuse should not be un-muting it...

This would cause the exact problem you are having. The dual audio is hearing the buffer, which is a few seconds behind, and hearing the direct audio from the XM devices throug the un-muted playback channel at the same time...

david

veetid · 08-21-2006, 02:58 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by bishooman

i found some bugs

1- when you are playing video in full screen and you changed the skin so it will go back to media main screen when going to next vedio.

2- if you are in media viewing photos try to go back to main change skin and hit media again and see what will happen.

3- holding back button givs a beep after 2 sec but it just function as normal, if you changed the skin it will not give the beep at all.

4- i can't find go to previous section hot key !!

5- top bar of NAV, CAM, NOTEPAD, and others (i cant remeber now) should be shiftted up by 3 or 4 pixels.

6- TV resets setting when CF restarts.

7- if i am playing video with original Aspect Ratio enabled, when going to next or previous video i have click Aspect Ratio button twice (disable then enable) to get correct Aspect Ratio for file being played.

I cannot reproduce your #6 or #7... When I change the aspect ratio, the new aspect ratio is applied to both the fullscreen and non-fullscreen window, it remembers when it loads the next video...

Also the TV settings appear to save for me. After you close centrafuse are the settings you chose in the config.xml in the plugins\TV folder? Do you have error.log...

david

clemen · 08-21-2006, 05:46 AM

Last day I got a GPS lock, weird - I tryed everything and the lock came after i had gone to setup for navi and restarted CF maybe 10times, but when i was going to find a city to navi to the city I should find was caled Augustenhof, when entered Augu, there wasent anything that looked like augustenhof, but it moved the fokus to something like ap****** I should press the down button several times to find augustenhof, to make the navi, but why could the text import search dosent find it?

My maps are from D6 - Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden
Version 2005.R2.3622 - map of TeleAtlas. HLG3, Toll roads, Rural, WES2. Signed map.

David do you want a copy of my xml files to maybe find the button stick problem?

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