I developed an app based on the VideoPlayer sample application.
The box crashed/rebooted by itself after playing 4 or 5 clips and this is about 2 days ago. Today things are worse, box is crashing while playing the fist clip itself.
Not is changed from the video platform side, we have a combination of H.264, wmv and asf files.
What I have observed today is, the box crashes after 2 or 3 mins into the clip.
I’ve experienced the same on one occasion with Amazon videos also (2 min preview).
I am not quite sure if there is any memory leak on the application or if there is any incompatibility on the codec.
If anyone has any insight or suggestion please advise
I have noticed a few crashes here too, apparently there are issues somewhere
The one way I was able to reliably reproduce a crash was to play a video that was marked as “HD” on a “SD” TV. The first time I tried to play it, the “buffering” screen would come on and then flash back to the springboard screen. The second time I tried to play, it rebooted. I was able to reproduce this several times. I worked around the issue by creating another … section with all the same information, except I changed HD → SD. Now it plays fine on the SD TV I have setup for testing.
I have had a couple crashes on my development Roku as well, that is plugged into an HD monitor. Usually a scripting error will just drop to the debugger, but sometimes it crashes. I have seen stuff about “leaked variables” on the debug console. I think this mostly happens when I am in the debugger in the middle of the app, and then I “make install” to try the fixed version, but have the fixed version with another bug. I cannot reliably reproduce this one.
It would be really nice to have a syntax checker (lint?) to check the files before sending them to the Roku. I already use “xmllint” against the categor*.xml files. I have noticed the murmurings around emacs, but I am not really interested in learning a new editor at this point. I’d like to see the color coding as well, but I am more interested in a “lint” style syntax check.
