Serviio

After several months of quite happily running Serviio I'm now experiencing some weird problems that I'm at a loss to explain. After a bit of experimentation I can recreate the symptoms as follows

1 Switch on Tv, boot laptop, launch Serviio app and console. Device appears in console with green light
2 Go into internet video on TV, browse folders, find film (which I've previously played OK with no problems). Film plays, but is very noisy
3 Go back into folders, try to select another film and get the message 'Cannot connect to the server please check server settings'
4 In Serviio console light is still green, server is running, and I can see the app running in Activity Monitor

I've also found that when I shut down, it times out and gives me message that Serviio has cancelled shutdown and I have to force quit the Serviio app to shut down - I have never had to do this before.

I've tried various hard and soft reboots of my router - though other internet content is running fine so I'm pretty sure it's not related to my connection - and deleted and reinstalled Serviio (saving my previous library).

I've found the following errors and warnings in the log at various points :

2012-01-21 13:28:27,338 WARN [DiscoveryAdvertisementNotifier] Could not advertise the device on any available NIC, will try again

2012-01-21 13:32:24,785 WARN [ProcessExecutor] Process /Applications/Serviio.app/Contents/Resources/Java/../../MacOS/ffmpeg has a return code of 1! This is a possible error.

2012-01-21 13:32:24,785 WARN [ProcessExecutor] Process /Applications/Serviio.app/Contents/Resources/Java/../../MacOS/ffmpeg has a return code of 137! This is a possible error.

Running Max OS x 10.6.8, 2.33 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB Ram, Serviio 0.6.1 and Sony Bravia TV

The only version of ffmeg I have is the one that came with the latest build of Serviio.

any ideas ?

Cheers

Oh, forgot to add - and possibly the most important point! I have been trying to set up some online feeds and things were fine before hand. The only thing I've done though is added and subsequently deleted plug ins and added and removed items in the console. Not deleted anything outside of the plug ins folder, and like I say, have subsequently reinstalled Serviio

cheers

1. 2012-01-21 13:28:27,338 WARN [DiscoveryAdvertisementNotifier] Could not advertise the device on any available NIC, will try again

bind your server ip in serviio console.

2. 2012-01-21 13:32:24,785 WARN [ProcessExecutor] Process /Applications/Serviio.app/Contents/Resources/Java/../../MacOS/ffmpeg has a return code of 1! This is a possible error.

ffmpeg failed to read the file or file was unavaible ie on external drive that had gone to sleep/disconnected.

3. I've also found that when I shut down, it times out and gives me message that Serviio has cancelled shutdown and I have to force quit the Serviio app to shut down - I have never had to do this before.

this is a Mac osx issue see http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=mac_shutdown for more info and fix.

yep, all the files are on an external drive so this figures.


After completely removing Serviio and reinstalling, and letting it update the library agan (previously I'd copied back in the library) things were running as normal but I was still getting the white noise. I then did a factory reset of the TV, after which films play perfectly, which I don't understand at all.

I am having the same issue as Cerberus with "I've also found that when I shut down, it times out and gives me message that Serviio has cancelled shutdown and I have to force quit the Serviio app to shut down". I am using Serviio version 1.0.1 with Max OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.

Even after applying Cerberus' fix and removing the check from "Restore windows when quitting" from System Preferences > General, the system still will not shut down unless I force quite Serviio.

Please suggest an alternate solution such that I do not have to force quit Serviio to shutdown the mac. Thanks.