downloading movie information freezing xbmc

[m0gwai]

<EDIT> found the problem, XBMC wasnt too happy with the length of the file name, ops pls delete - sorry

Hey guys,

So here's my problem, I've setup my movie library with the update on startup option and every time I launch XBMC the few movie I've added are getting automatically updated, everything worked perfectly until now, it seems that XBMC is looking for the movie information endlessly, I start the app it list all my movies with existing info and start looking for info of the first new movie, it just says:

Downloading movie: movie_name

And it stays like that no matter what, I tried to use the stop scanning option, it doesn't work, I tried also to use the movie information option but this freezes XBMC, also I tried editing folder to change the source, I'm currently using IMDB but this freezes XBMC too.

I'm obviously connected to the internet, I don't run a firewall on this PC , I'm using XBMC beta 2, windows XP.

If necessary I'll post the logs, just ask if needed.

Thx a lot

[jmarshall]

If you can reproduce, please make an example filesystem up using dummy video files and post for us to reproduce + fix.

Thanks,
Jonathan

[rotm]

Im having the exact same problem, but i can not figure out a way to solve it. Im running the latest build (8.10 atlantis) on Vista 32bit

[Ashex]

Most of the time, when XBMC crashes while scanning, there's an issue with filenames.
It's generally one of three things:


Filename is too long
Illegal characters in filename
Too many duplicate files


The last happened for me with TV Shows, if you run into this, grab a log and open a ticket. I deleted all the duplicate shows (had three sets of season 1 by accident) before I could properly debug it.