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Author Topic: Help needed DSS200 Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-21-2012 08:54 AM                        Hello again - I'm running DSS 200 with version 4.2.1.3, installed march 2011 Is that bad ? And right now, I am enjoying my next fun with this thing: Subtitles are now missing in at least one show a day (different pictures), -and just now, where I'm damned busy to get MIB ingested in both versions (no sun spot extras here, my screen is nicely white), I have my usual capacity problem. I have bought two extra harddrives, to store titles, I have to ingest early before premiere, because the prints must be used in many theatres, but now - after storing in extern drive - I suddenly can't remove the title from local drive. "Can't be done, server is busy" the bastard keeps telling me. -I don't see with what. All right - while writing this, I've been multi-tasking: Reboot once again was the magic word I'm getting too old for this modern stuff ! Greetings from extremely sunny Denmark (Noone wants to go to the movies in this early and sudden summer !) Per  |  IP: Logged Antti Nayha Master Film Handler Posts: 268 From: Helsinki, Finland Registered: Oct 2008 posted 05-21-2012 09:08 AM                     You really should update to 4.3.5.13.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-21-2012 12:47 PM                     Yeah, you should be on on 4.3.5.9 or 13. And, regarding the subtitle issue...two things...make sure your projector is on the latest ICP firmware and ALWAYS pull a log file on any botched show and submit it to Dolby...Hammer them with this so it is the squeaky wheel that gets fixed.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-21-2012 01:01 PM                     Per, you can't delete when you are ingesting.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 05-21-2012 01:58 PM                     Ain't digital wonderful? I'm still waiting for UCI to book their first D-Cinema feature...  |  IP: Logged Kevin Fairchild Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: Kennewick, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2008 posted 05-21-2012 03:13 PM                     Cue the film trolls... oh wait.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 05-21-2012 03:23 PM                     quote: Kevin Fairchild Cue the film trolls... oh wait. So says the troll who has 77 posts in about 4 years ..you need to do a bit of research before you open your trap....I am now a part of the Dark Side doing digital installs. So bite me. On topic, I need to check the server at UCI to see if it has the "Rubber Band Effect" when I go there on Thursday. And no Brad, I haven't installed the new drives with the updated software version yet..We need to chat by PM for why.  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-21-2012 03:49 PM                        Brad I think, I've got that - One can't do anything but go to lunch, while ingesting. -And was the funny part - I waited nice and calm until show was ended AND indgest of MIB 2D was ended - and first then I wanted to delete the film just finished to make space for the next one. Thanks to everyone for kind advise. I learn a bit every day by following Your discussions, and I am very glad, always to have lots of fast and wise words when in mayday-mode Per  |  IP: Logged Kevin Fairchild Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: Kennewick, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2008 posted 05-21-2012 05:51 PM                     No offense Tony, you just seem to pop up in every thread with a comment on how much you dislike digital. [Time for me to resume my position as a wall flower.. who knows I might make my 79th post by the end of summer]  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 05-21-2012 08:52 PM                     No offense taken. My dislike of digital stems from it's real drawbacks, which so many digital proponents try to deny or gloss over. Film is not, was not or ever will be a perfect medium, and neither is digital. Digital is good in many aspects, but as debated on here many times it is not the cure-all that was promised to theatre owners and the public. I was and still am just as vocal about any of the issues with film as well...but face facts, film in general is a mature technology with most of the kinks worked out. The projectors are relatively simple to use and maintain and a lot of breakdowns are easy to fix (as well as less expensive.) Digital is still undergoing growing pains. And I am willing to bet that 50 or 100 years from now there will be guys like me bitching about the technology that will replace D-Cinema. Finally, if you don't want to be what you were complaining about, then don't come on here with a post like your first one in this thread as it is a textbook example of trolling.  |  IP: Logged Kris Verhanneman Expert Film Handler Posts: 182 From: Belgium Registered: Dec 2009 posted 05-22-2012 02:26 AM                     Per, if you need to stock that many features wouldn't it be good to upgrade your server to bigger hard drives. Or add a stockage server with a network connection.  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-22-2012 06:40 AM                        Kris - You're right, -and if I have understood things right, The Darks Forces will be coming with a demand of bigger capacity for the¨HFR soon anyway. It's an endless screw of costs, but we're in it Per  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-23-2012 09:54 AM                     quote: Manny Knowles On the topic of "servers behaving badly," here's a related issue: Clicking on a show title in the "build" environment occasionally will select the next show in the line-up. In other words, there's a mismatch between the selected (highlighted) show, and the actual show that appears in the editing time line. quote: Steve Guttag I've NEVER seen that one, Manny. Never even heard about it until you just mentioned it. As it happens, I'm in the habit of documenting this sort of thing with photos. Note that the selected title is "Life Above All" and yet the presented playlist is that of "Skin I Live In":  |  IP: Logged Jason Raftery Film Handler Posts: 72 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: May 2011 posted 05-23-2012 10:47 AM                     I've seen Manny's issue on a DSS200 running a pre-release of system 4.3.5 (4.3.5.6 I believe). Moving to 4.3.5.13 fixed it. Manny, what software version do you have on the affected machine?  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-23-2012 11:27 AM                     This issue was observed on the older version (4.2.x). It's an intermittent problem, happening about once every 2-3 months or so. Would be nice if it goes away with the upgrade to 4.3.x, which I'm not doing until next Wednesday.  |  IP: Logged

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