webradio 3.7, unhandled exception on digital radio

[mvallevand]

Yes that would be the bug. If you want a temp fix on 64bit create the registry key

"HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\devnz\GBPVR InstallDir" and set it to the string "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\"

Martin

[Lao Pan]

Thanks I'll try without the \Wow6432Node\ (W8 32bit)

I have uploaded a set of New Country Flags & Radio Logos here http://www.filedropper.com/webradiomedia (12.1mb 7z - all pngs optimized with PNGGauntlet) - Hope they come in useful

All individual elements used were freely available from Google searches or were my own work so should be OK for non commercial use.

[Lao Pan]

Thanks Martin
The reg string did the business - now getting flags from the Country Folder, Bit early to say yet but it may have stopped the unhandled exceptions as well.

[Lao Pan]

Hi Martin

Updated VLC a couple of days ago - Web Radio throws exceptions and crashes vlc and will not connect to any station.
Reverted to VLC 2.0.7 and all is fine - Guess there is not much point in me posting logs until after the new release of NPVR, I'll stick with 2.0.7 for the time being.

[mvallevand]

I've had this problem with several versions of VLC over the years but I'd still like to look at the problem now to see if it is a bug in WebRadio. Could you send me a sample URL that you are trying to play.

If you like to install the latest VLC will run with an older version in the WebRadio.xml. I just uncompress from the VLC archive, but there are old portable editions too

Martin

[Lao Pan]

I tried several different stations through out the world, Shoutcast, Recieva, Mikes Radio, IceRadio - Cleared the cache - every one crashed vlc and threw an exception in web radio - even dvb-t became unstable.
The exception was something like can not have a null instance of "This"
Revert to 2.07 and all was rock solid again - must be some change in the latest vlc

Unfortunately SHE is home all day for a couple of weeks so unlikely be able to test - if I do I'll try again and post with logs etc but I don't use vlc for much, so may stick with 2.0.7 for a few weeks.

[mvallevand]

Odd, I moved to it yesterday and I haven't encountered any problems on many streams. I will wait for your logs.

Martin

[Lao Pan]

I'll try downloading the update again and a clean install later this week - maybe the installer trashed the update last time.

[Lao Pan]

Hi Martin
Installed VLC 2.0.8 again and was much more stable - but occasionally would get .net exceptions and problems when using back browser button on the remote to go back up the menu which I have been having on and off previously.

I think I have found the problem - in the RadioStations.xml file from NWebRadioAddOns, the Last Played item had the full path - <MenuFile>C:\Temp\lastplayed.csv</MenuFile> - I had set the cache file in settings to - C:\Radiocache\ - which is where the lastplayed.csv file was being written. Removing the path from RadioStations.xml appears to have stopped the exceptions. - I hope.

[mvallevand]

I have been doing a lot of clean-up in WebRadio 3 so that might help, and fixed a few bugs in menu handling and lastplayed too so these might help. VLC itself has not been a problem.

Martin