Topic: Xbox Media Player Suddenly Wont Start Up (Read 53 times)

X-ace · « **on:** March 30, 2003, 09:57:00 AM »

sounds like an error in your Evo config file.
Try launching XBMP through Boxplorer.

X-ace · « **Reply #1 on:** March 30, 2003, 06:09:00 PM »

QUOTE (damonSK @ Mar 30 2003, 11:23 PM)

boot into ms dash. go to memory, delete the save for xbmp, should fix it, also fixes it for alot of xbmps problems.

cool. fix. thanks!

hauxon · « **Reply #2 on:** March 31, 2003, 03:14:00 AM »

OK HURRAY!!!! SUCCESS!!!! It seems that deleting the contents of the CACHE folder on my E patrition did the trick!

XBMP seems to keep the current state of the cache from streaming media in this folder. When I did turn off my Xbox while still playing a SMB stream from my PC a corrupt cache file was left in the CACHE directory. XBMP seems to have tried loading it on start up and thus froze!

Well it looks like it is not a good idea to turn your xbox off while streming media. Hope this helps someone if he or she makes the same mistake.

X-ace · « **Reply #3 on:** March 31, 2003, 04:48:00 AM »

what did the files in cache look like?
(size, extension, # of files etc)

X-ace · « **Reply #4 on:** March 31, 2003, 08:40:00 AM »

ok, thanks.

(just wanted to know for my reference)

X-ace · « **Reply #5 on:** March 31, 2003, 12:15:00 PM »

yeah, don't run builds....

hauxon · « **Reply #6 on:** April 01, 2003, 02:42:00 PM »

Renaming the XBMP directory from "xbmp" to "xbmp23" did the trick this time! Cant wait for my next problem. This is probably what happens when you always "need" the newest build.

Love XBMP despite the problems

Dr Jekyll · « **Reply #7 on:** April 01, 2003, 02:55:00 PM »

QUOTE (hauxon @ Apr 1 2003, 11:42 PM)

Love XBMP despite the problems

Me too, thats why I bought an XBOX.

hauxon · « **Reply #8 on:** April 02, 2003, 07:05:00 AM »

If any one is still interested, problems were not totally gone. I made a discovery, making fault finding a bit easier. If I pulled the network cable from my xbox ... and ... XBMP would always start. This was a clear indication that XBMP was making a request to the net and halted waiting for the response. I'd already disabled the <timeserver> tag. After a lot of investigation I found something called <snapstreamserver> in the config.xml which i cannot find anything about in the documetation. Disabling it got XBMP to work again.

<snapstreamserver*>192.168.0.1</snapstreamserver*>
<snapstreamuser*>common</snapstreamuser*>

This is of course after I disabled it

It would be nice if anyone has any info on what this troublesome snapstream server is supposed to do.

Maybe the developers should program a 5-10 sec timeout for such requests, shouldn't be that hard, or allow the program to progress while waiting for response.

Until then people having freezing problems with XBMP should do "trial and error" in the config.xml until success.

X-ace · « **Reply #9 on:** April 02, 2003, 08:06:00 AM »

make sure to tell the folks over at the XBMP forums
http://www.xboxmedia...1/ikonboard.cgi

X-ace · « **Reply #10 on:** April 03, 2003, 03:22:00 AM »

Are you running a CVS build or V2.3?

X-ace · « **Reply #11 on:** April 03, 2003, 06:57:00 AM »

Try renaming the XBMP folder to XBMP23, someone claimed earlier that this helped.

Other than that I would just go back to the earlier dash. What's so importnat about the new dash anyway? (If you want IGR get the X2 BIOS).

FrankDux · « **Reply #12 on:** April 03, 2003, 07:19:00 AM »

Sorry if i sound rude, im frustrated at this.. I just dont get it.

X-ace · « **Reply #13 on:** April 03, 2003, 07:22:00 AM »

you don't sound rude, but frustrated.
I'm pretty frustrated too, as I can't see what's wrong.
(And my Xbox is undergoing surgery so I can't test things out.)

drewZen · « **Reply #14 on:** April 06, 2003, 07:42:00 PM »

I seem to have run into the same exact problem. Ive done over 10 boxes and installed 2.3 and above without any probs. All with X2 Lite and evox 3285 and newer. But one im doin now just wont load no matter what i do. So i tried loading up official 2.2 build and it works..... oh well....

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