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Author Topic: Help needed DSS200 Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-23-2012 12:19 PM                     Looks Photoshopped  |  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 12:28 PM                     Oh my. And here I was thinking a pic would be so helpful. Sigh. The only alteration to the original pic involved cropping it to emphasize the important part, and to make it 800 pixels wide for Film-Tech. (I emailed you the unaltered version.) The glitch itself was not staged or Photoshopped. Trust me. This situation happens.  |  IP: Logged Kris Verhanneman Expert Film Handler Posts: 182 From: Belgium Registered: Dec 2009 posted 05-24-2012 10:12 AM                     Hey Manny, just saw the same thing happening on my windows 7 pc here. Are you running your dolby client on a server or on a pc?  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-24-2012 11:19 AM                     No, that's actually the server itself.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-24-2012 12:00 PM                        17 seconds of black? Is that for a light show or curtain rise or something?  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-24-2012 12:55 PM                     Yup. Curtain raise.  |  IP: Logged Phil Ranucci Expert Film Handler Posts: 236 From: Carpinteria,CA, United States Registered: May 2006 posted 05-24-2012 10:44 PM                     Our NEC needs 40 seconds just to get the douser to open.  |  IP: Logged Tony Bandiera Jr Film God Posts: 3067 From: Moreland Idaho Registered: Apr 2004 posted 06-12-2012 11:04 PM                     I only need 30 seconds to raise my dowser. Sorry about that, couldn't resist. Putting in another server/projector this week....let's see if any of these issues crop up.  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 11-19-2013 09:44 PM                 It has been 524 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 11-19-2013 09:44 PM                    I see something similar on 4.3.5(9) in the build screen. Deleting a show and it doesn't go away. It's not really there but is still displayed. If you click on it, it does not highlight and at the bottom it gives the "There are no shows to edit in this auditorium..." message even though there are other shows. If you arrive at it via up/down arrows it shows the name and playlist for another show. While on it, and right clicking, remove and properties is grayed out. I tried once making another show with the same name but that just behaved normally and didn't do anything with the bad one when I removed it. I thought there was some connection to deleting a movie that was part of a show but that was not the case with the one I am looking at right now. Deleting that content later, just put the usual X on it. Previously, I had a couple of these ghost shows and eventually the front end program, whatever it's called, rebooted itself. One theory I am working on is that maybe editing the show name has some bearing on this error cropping up. Oh well, I guess I will reboot the whole machine. Tech check tomorrow so may as well have a clean start.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-20-2013 06:25 AM                     Try using the "purge" button in the "server tools" menu. In fact, you should hit that every week or so...it tends to clean up dangling things that doesn't get deleted when content and such are deleted.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 11-20-2013 01:38 PM                     Steve, Can you explain exactly what the "Purge" button does? I was always afraid it might delete anything that's not already part of a built show -- Is my fear unfounded? (When I worked at Pan Am, the "Purge Data" function was not for the faint of heart. I guess I'm not completely over it.)  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 11-20-2013 03:24 PM                     I thought that rebooting the server had the same effect? Purge should delete content not linked to any ingested CPL, partial ingests, corrupted files. It should be safe to use.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 11-20-2013 04:07 PM                     It is very safe to use. Rebooting "should" also purge stuff. Manny, open up a FTP link and look at all of the various bits and pieces. Do a Purge and then open it up again...you'll see a lot of crude is gone (if you had junk in there).  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 11-24-2013 12:04 AM                    One thing I've noticed is that the firmware that runs the CRU bay must be kind of buggy because it's easy to get into a situation where it refuses to recognize a drive. I had an EXT2 formatted drive that I was going to use as additional storage for some trailers and other unencrypted content (hate just deleting that). I must have messed it up somehow because upon putting it in the bay, not only was it not recognized (the on-screen busy indicator started flashing but no busy-ness shown on the drive bay) but after pulling it, a known good drive was not recognized either. The on-screen indicator stayed flashing the whole time--even with an empty drive bay. Had to reboot. Reformatting that HD (again to EXT2) didn't change things. Something's funky about it of course but it's disappointing that that can mess things up in way that only a reboot can cure.  |  IP: Logged

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