movie database.exe

[krystofurr]

Hello,

So I've recently purchased Game Ex and am having some issues with the Movie Database program. It seems to have an issue or so I've found with a specific directory of movies. I was wondering if there was any character limitations for filenames, length of filenames or even number of sub directory limitations ( like do all of the movies have to be in one directory and not seperated ). Everytime I use a fresh db and load other directories of movies it works fine but once i get to this specific one it crashes. Help anyone? Thanks

Krys

[Draco1962]

Can you provide a copy of your log file, please? Preferably right afer the crash.

Thanks!

[krystofurr]

Ok. What file would be the log file? Is it just log.txt in the DATA directory?

[fRequEnCy]

Ok. What file would be the log file? Is it just log.txt in the DATA directory?

That would be the one!

[krystofurr]

Ok, so there is no log.txt file in the DATA directory. There is one in the main dir of game ex but it looks like it only has the logging for when you run game ex itself. The exe for the moviedatabase is in the main directory called moviedatabase.exe

Here is the log file anyway:

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: GameEx: Version 11.51: Starting Log

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: Operating System Platform: Win32NT

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: Operating System Name: Windows XP

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: Operating System Version: 5.1.2600

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: Checking for versions of .net Framework installed

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: .net Framework 2.0 Installed

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.00GHz, 2045MB

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: 2.99Ghz - 2 Cores or CPU's

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: Running Randomize()

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: Loading PlugIns

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: Running Misc startup tasks

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: Setting Menu types

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: Opening Configuration File

12:37:36.5 17/01/2011: Getting Configuration Values

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Using Theme: Default - Default

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Default - Default

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Launching HideOS.exe

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: GameEx will check for media insertion (may affect performance)

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Hiding Taskbar

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Is Media Center running?

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Media Center Mode 2

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Snap Delay set to: 2

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Get other settings

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Start work for Form

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Getting Original Screen Size

12:37:36.6 17/01/2011: Opening Database Connection

12:37:36.7 17/01/2011: Initializing Component

12:37:36.8 17/01/2011: Retrieving resolution setting

12:37:36.8 17/01/2011: MAME Path is: C:\Emulators\MAME

12:37:36.8 17/01/2011: MAME EXE file is: mame.exe

12:37:36.8 17/01/2011: ROM Path is: F:\ROMS\MAME

12:37:36.8 17/01/2011: Catver.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\catver.ini

12:37:36.8 17/01/2011: controls.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\data\controls.ini

12:37:36.8 17/01/2011: History.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\history.dat

12:37:36.8 17/01/2011: nplayers.ini is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini

12:37:36.8 17/01/2011: command.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\command.dat

12:37:36.8 17/01/2011: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: C:\Program Files\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Loading Controls.ini map file

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Snap Path is: C:\Emulators\Mame\snap

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: AVI Snap Path: Not Found

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Flyer Path: Not Found

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Cabinet Path: Not Found

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Cabinet 3D Path: Not Found

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Title Path: Not Found

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: PCB Path: Not Found

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Artwork Preview Path: Not Found

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Panel Path: Not Found

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Manual Path: Not Found

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Icon Path: Not Found

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Marquee Path: Not Found

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Loading Custom Emulators

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Loading Emulator 1: [Console] Nintendo NES (Nestopia)

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Loading Emulator 2: [Console] Nintendo N64 (Project64)

12:37:36.9 17/01/2011: Loading Emulator 3: [Console] Nintendo SNES (ZSNES)

12:37:37.0 17/01/2011: Loading Emulator 4: [Console] Sega Genesis (Fusion)

12:37:37.0 17/01/2011: Loading Emulator 5: [Console] Mattel Intellivision (Nostalgia)

12:37:37.0 17/01/2011: Using 3D Alpha Blended Animations.

12:37:37.0 17/01/2011: Using General Font: Trebuchet MS

12:37:37.0 17/01/2011: Using Title Font: Trebuchet MS

12:37:37.0 17/01/2011: Initialising Direct3D

12:37:37.1 17/01/2011: Applying GameEx is Loading Image

12:37:37.1 17/01/2011: Setting Resolution to 1360x768 32 bit color

12:37:37.1 17/01/2011: Creating Surfaces

12:37:37.3 17/01/2011: Creating Primary Surface - Full Screen Mode

12:37:37.3 17/01/2011: Creating Back Buffer

12:37:37.4 17/01/2011: Loading graphic Surfaces

12:37:37.4 17/01/2011: Display is running at: 1360x768 32bit color, 60hz

12:37:37.5 17/01/2011: Creating Surfaces Flags

12:37:37.6 17/01/2011: Creating Surfaces Misc and Dialogs

12:37:37.7 17/01/2011: Creating Surfaces Volume

12:37:37.7 17/01/2011: Creating Surfaces Arrows

12:37:37.7 17/01/2011: Creating Surfaces GameEXlogo Text

12:37:37.7 17/01/2011: Creating Surfaces Toolbar

12:37:37.7 17/01/2011: Creating Surfaces Backgrounds

12:37:37.7 17/01/2011: Creating Surfaces Toolbar Controls

12:37:37.7 17/01/2011: Creating Surfaces GameEx Logo

12:37:37.8 17/01/2011: Creating Surface Unselected

12:37:37.8 17/01/2011: Creating Surfaces Home & Exit

12:37:37.8 17/01/2011: Creating Surfaces Snaps

12:37:37.8 17/01/2011: Creating Surfaces Menu and List Bars

12:37:38.2 17/01/2011: Creating Fonts

12:37:38.2 17/01/2011: Creating Game Font

12:37:38.4 17/01/2011: Creating Game Font Faded

12:37:38.5 17/01/2011: Creating Title Font

12:37:39.2 17/01/2011: Creating Menu Font

12:37:39.3 17/01/2011: Creating Font Black

12:37:39.4 17/01/2011: Creating Font Black Small

12:37:39.4 17/01/2011: Fonts Created Succesfully

12:37:39.4 17/01/2011: 4MB Video Memory Used

12:37:39.4 17/01/2011: Initialising Bass Audio Library

12:37:39.4 17/01/2011: Creating instance of global keyboard hook

12:37:39.6 17/01/2011: Attempting to load game list

12:37:39.8 17/01/2011: Applying Language/Text

12:37:39.8 17/01/2011: Text/Language: English

12:37:39.8 17/01/2011: MAME CMD options: -nowindow -joy -skip_gameinfo

12:37:39.8 17/01/2011: Loading last used Game List

12:37:39.8 17/01/2011: Loading Start Page

12:37:39.9 17/01/2011: Creating DirectSound Device

12:37:40.0 17/01/2011: Trying: Primary Sound Driver

12:37:40.0 17/01/2011: Loading Sound Files

12:37:40.0 17/01/2011: DirectSound Device Created Successfully

12:37:40.0 17/01/2011: Initialising DirectInput for Gamepad support

12:37:40.2 17/01/2011: Unable to create a joystick device

12:37:40.2 17/01/2011: Initializing MCE Remote

12:37:40.2 17/01/2011: Playing intro sound file

12:37:40.2 17/01/2011: Initialization OK! Starting GameEx!

12:37:40.2 17/01/2011: Testing Main Loop Once: Processing Frame

12:37:40.9 17/01/2011: Testing Main Loop Once: Main Loop ran successfully

12:38:21.1 17/01/2011: Exiting GameEx!

12:38:21.2 17/01/2011: Saving Settings

12:38:22.3 17/01/2011: Disposing Plugins

12:38:22.3 17/01/2011: Closing database connection

12:38:22.3 17/01/2011: Checking for applications to Launch On Exit

[krystofurr]

Ok, so i've tested with the movie dir that I thought was causing the problem and I systematically went through each folder for each movie and tested the movie database app and it did not seem to crash until i got to 3 last folders. So I took a clean version of the database and removed the last 3 that seemed to make it crash, rescanned for movies and tested and it crashed.....

So now I have no idea what the issue is....

I'm thinking about just moving all of the files out of the directory tree and putting them all in one directory but I don't know if that will even make a difference.

[krystofurr]

any1 have any ideas?

[T. Goodchild]

any1 have any ideas?

I've had the movie database crash since the 10xx versions. One time I had set it to download descriptions, and when I tried to open the file it had crashed maybe because it was too big, it was around 60mb. I saw it crash out of task manager and I could never open it up again to edit, unless I deleted it and tried again one by one adding info.

[krystofurr]

great. so how am i supposed to add pictures to the movies manually then

[T. Goodchild]

great. so how am i supposed to add pictures to the movies manually then

I remember just dragging a picture onto the box and it worked. I had more problems narrowing down which release was used when it got to specific dvd/blu ray releases.

[krystofurr]

oh k. but the only way to do that is through the move database.exe program right? you can't do it directly in game ex? i do seem to recall that the images stayed with the movies regardless of overwriting the database when it crashed.