New User With Something to Add...Plus An "Issue"

[phyerboss]

1st off...

Im a new user of PS3mediaserver. Pretty slick application! it was 1 of the very few "work right out the box" apps I ever used!

I am using PCLinux(2009). And I can verify for you guys that PS3Mediaserver works fine in it! Of course I had to get the ffmpeg & mencoder libraries installed. But, once that was done. Images and avi's were playing just fine! Theres still a few mpegs that are giving me a "corrupted file message" or "unsupported format". But, I'll tinker with those a bit more later.

Ok, the 2nd part of my post...

The "issue". Is that I can play mkv's. BUT, after a few seconds into the video. The media server will crash. Anyone ever came across this or have an idea what might resolve it? I dont see any error messages pop up on the server itself. And the only error message the PS3 shows is: "Lost connection to media server".

Thank You

Edit:
Add .ogm files to that list with mkv's as well. Seems both of these formats crack PS3Mediaserver up*

[ratatoskr]

Have you cheked th logfile? Helpfull if that says anything

[phyerboss]

Have you cheked th logfile? Helpfull if that says anything

Sorry, for the long delay in replying.

Yes, I looked over the log(traces tab?*). But it shows nothing of actual use to help
figure out the problem. Its just says "Sending ALIVE".

[Topguy]

No that was not what he meant, there is a "debug.log" file in the application directory that contains much more information.

[phyerboss]

No that was not what he meant, there is a "debug.log" file in the application directory that contains much more information.

Ok, I got a problem here then.

I DONT have a "debug.log" file in the app's folder.

[shagrath]

when server crash after a few seconds, it's a memory issue, nothing else... check your avilable ram or reduce the buffer size

[phyerboss]

Not enough ram?!

Im smoking at 2gigs DDR2. Of course it might not be dual channel. Its still
even odder that it might not enough. Either way as advised. I'll reduce the
buffer size. To see if that resolves the issue.

[shagrath]

the thing is, Java sometimes have troubles to allocate a large chunk of RAM, hence the crash

[phyerboss]

Ok, I lowered the buffer size to 250 and then 150.

Still, omg's & mkv's crash the app. They'll play for
a few seconds to a whole minute and crash.

[shagrath]

ok, go search the debug.log file then :p
if it's not in the app directory, it's likely in the temp one, under "javaps3media"