Trying to access music or videos causes the nDroid server to crash

[agerdin]

Brian,

When I am trying the new feature to reach Music and Videos the nDroid server crashes requiring a restart. Both my Music and Videos are located on shares on a server.

Extract from my nPVR Config.xml

<MusicLibrary extensions="^.+\.(mp3|ogg|m3u|wma|aac|wav|m4a|fla|flac)$">
      <Directory name="Music">\\GERDIN-SERVER\Music\</Directory>
    </MusicLibrary>
    <VideoLibrary extensions="^.+\.(mpeg|mpg|m2v|avi|ty|avs|ogm|mp4|mov|m2ts|wmv|cdg|iso|rm|dvr-ms|ts|mkv|vob|divx|flv|ratDVD|m4v|3gp|rmvb|wtv|bdmv)$">
      <Directory name="Videos">\\GERDIN-SERVER\Videos\</Directory>
      <Directory name="Children Shows &amp; Series">\\GERDIN-SERVER\Recorded TV\</Directory>
      <Directory name="Recordings">E:\My Recordings\</Directory>
    </VideoLibrary>
    <PictureLibrary extensions="^.+\.(bmp|jpg|png|tiff|tif)$">
      <Directory name="Photos">\\GERDIN-SERVER\Photos\</Directory>
    </PictureLibrary>

Not sure what logs to attach but I can do if you let me know how.

\\Agerdin

[bgowland]

I suspect it's the SMB share paths - I never did test those properly but wouldn't expect them to cause a crash. I'd just expect attempts to play anything to fail at the nDroid end. I knew there was something I'd omitted from the release notes.

If you could zip and attach the nDroidService, nDroidServiceListener and nDroidServiceStreamer logs, that should be enough.

Cheers,
Brian

[agerdin]

Hi again Brian,

I guess the server does not really crash, actually the client shows the message that the activity nDroid does not respond on my phone. Hence I need to closed down the client and restart the server before I am able to use the android client again.

I can see in the logs that access is denied to the Video path

Attached are the requested logs.

\\Agerdin

[bgowland]

I guess the server does not really crash, actually the client shows the message that the activity nDroid does not respond on my phone. Hence I need to closed down the client and restart the server before I am able to use the android client again.

Ah OK, I can see a situation where that might happen. mvallevand showed me a possible work-around for the shares a while back and it was that which I didn't get to testing properly.

How do you have your shares setup to work with npvr? By that I mean the permissions and also is the npvr service running as LocalSystem or with another user account?

Cheers,
Brian

[agerdin]

Ah OK, I can see a situation where that might happen. mvallevand showed me a possible work-around for the shares a while back and it was that which I didn't get to testing properly.

How do you have your shares setup to work with npvr? By that I mean the permissions and also is the npvr service running as LocalSystem or with another user account?

Cheers,
Brian

Brian, I have the npvr recording service is running with an account that has access to these shares. I cannot run it with the LocalSystem user.

\\Anders

[bgowland]

Brian, I have the npvr recording service is running with an account that has access to these shares. I cannot run it with the LocalSystem user.

\\Anders

OK, thanks Anders.

I'll upload a new version of the nDroid service to the wiki later - it will also need to run as an account with access to the shares. I need to do a little more testing first but will post an announcement when it's ready.

Cheers,
Brian

[agerdin]

OK, thanks Anders.

I'll upload a new version of the nDroid service to the wiki later - it will also need to run as an account with access to the shares. I need to do a little more testing first but will post an announcement when it's ready.

Cheers,
Brian

Thanks Brian,

Tested it quickly and it works as expected.

\\Anders

[bgowland]

Thanks Brian,

Tested it quickly and it works as expected.

\\Anders

Great news. Thanks for the confirmation.