Pandora freezing unit

[leetwanker]

I'm having this problem too. One thing I've been able to determine is that on a clean unit (fresh re-flash, no plugins, reset Everything to defaults), Pandora seems to work like a champ.

I'm going to try and track down what's causing the problem and try to take one step back to see if that un-causes the problem. Anyhooooo... wish me luck.

[mad_ady]

Good luck! Try with WDLXTV=OFF and see what happens.

Also - you should be able to restart the OSD without rebooting (/etc/init.d/S70dmaosd stop; /etc/init.d/S70dmaosd start) if you're on at least 0.5.2.0. The newer version comes with a webend link to restart the OSD.

[leetwanker]

[mad_ady]

You just see the output of the playback engine, but if the whole OSD freezes, then it should generate a crash message on console or something. It wouldn't help much anyway...

[leetwanker]

[beawer]

Hi,


The same problem you described I face running 1.02.21_V.WDLXTV_LIVE-0.5.2.1 firmware.
1.02.21_WDLXTV.COM_EXT3-BOOT_LIVE-0.4.7.3 behaves I would say a little better because more songs can be listened before box freezes.
Should any difference be expected with flashed version of the firmware ? Does anyone have any experience with 1.05.04 fw when it comes to
the issue reported ? Are there any firmware version that does not freezes wdtv box ? The interesting thing is that box reacts on eiri even when it
freezes so I can reboot it with a script.


Thank you

[mad_ady]

1.05 might behave differently - I don't know. I haven't used Pandora, and there have been no changes compared to the stock version... You can give it a try, but realistically, let's hope we can finish work on 1.06 and it is more stable there.

[beawer]

It must be video advertisements that somehow "confuse" the box and they are played regularly every few songs with free accounts.
If you upgrade to a payed account which is "advertisements free" wdlxtv plays perfectly well.

BR