codec error, only happens in angymans build

[blackthunder]

I have been having codec loading errors almost everytime I try to load a playlist, as well as randomly durring playback(though not near as often). The problem happens using angryman's latest build, I wen't back to the feb 1st build and the problem still occurs. I tried to recreate this using the official rockbox build and it does not happen. I am using the 20gb.

[Angryman_H10]

Can someone commit this? Doesnt happen here!

But i assume that it could be a big difference in the memory usage of the database between my 5G model and the 20g model.

[skateboard0924]

Just a quick question... what wps are you using? I encountered a similar problem when using that new paralis wps made by blackthunder.

[blackthunder]

it happened using whatever wps i tried, i thought it might be my wps, but changing it didn't help

edit
after some testing i realised that it is caused by my wps, i didn't even think that could cause it. any ideas what could make it happen?

[blackthunder]

I've tried taking out the album art, changing around some of the alignment(there were a couple places i had a few tags for one line), changing the graphics from 2 bit to 24 bit.

I would think it would be from trying to do something different when a playlist is involved but its not, I have no playlist related tags, except for the number of entries and current entry, removing those didn't help

[blackthunder]

so I have fixed this problem with the wps, it no longer causes any problems codec errors, only I don't know what is different!

I found that if I loaded the theme file of a different wps, then loaded the wps on its own the error didn't occur, so I replaced the .cfg file with another, changing the settings how I needed it.

This .cfg cause codec errors:

wps: /.rockbox/wps/parilis-Green.wps
backdrop: /.rockbox/backdrops/parilis-Green.bmp
font: /.rockbox/fonts/helvr12.fnt
statusbar: on
foreground color: FFFFFF
background color: 999999
userfont1: /.rockbox/fonts/rockfont-8.fnt
userfont2: /.rockbox/fonts/helvr10.fnt
userfont3: /.rockbox/fonts/helvr12.fnt
userfont4: /.rockbox/fonts/rockfont-8.fnt
scrollbar: on
listxpos:13
listypos: 10
listlines: 7
listwidth: 128

this one did not:

wps: /.rockbox/wps/parilis-pot.wps
font: /.rockbox/fonts/helvB12.fnt
statusbar: on
backdrop: /.rockbox/backdrops/parilis-pot.bmp
foreground color: ffffff
background color: 000000
userfont1: /.rockbox/fonts/rockfont-8.fnt
userfont2: /.rockbox/fonts/helvb10.fnt
userfont3: /.rockbox/fonts/helvb12.fnt
userfont4: /.rockbox/fonts/rockfont-8.fnt
scrollbar: on
listxpos: 13
listypos: 11
listlines: 6
listwidth: 134

the only difference really is the list positions and a different shade of background color, the order some things appear in is also slightly different

[AsusFreak!]

Kind of magic...

I had some trouble with my red moon theme using too many preloaded bitmaps. Then displaying the album art was gone.

In my opinion these three differences you made can't be the reason for crashing the codec.

The background color does not matter at all, I think.

The list position? Could be a bug with your screen frontiers. Try it with other values.

The backdrop? I guess you're using the same bmp options and the name of the file is correct. Then it could not be the reason.

Then you're using different wps files. There could be the fault as well.

Think you still have to check it, sorry.

AF

[Angryman_H10]

Hmm, i think it's not a problem with the settings you've got. I assume its a problem of the editor you use. Dont use Notepad for editing the config file. Use a editor which supports UNIX EOF.

[AsusFreak!]

Which one do you use with Windows, Angry?

[Angryman_H10]

I use Scite

[blackthunder]

Originally Posted by AsusFreak!

Kind of magic...

I had some trouble with my red moon theme using too many preloaded bitmaps. Then displaying the album art was gone.

In my opinion these three differences you made can't be the reason for crashing the codec.

The background color does not matter at all, I think.

The list position? Could be a bug with your screen frontiers. Try it with other values.

The backdrop? I guess you're using the same bmp options and the name of the file is correct. Then it could not be the reason.

Then you're using different wps files. There could be the fault as well.

Think you still have to check it, sorry.

AF

The wps is different, but only by name, I have the same wps with different names. The only thing that changed was the list position by a few numbers, the background color, and the order of things.

As for testing, after replacing each theme file for my wps with the new one, changing only the background and the wps file (and colors for one of the wps's) every version of the theme worked fine.

I really don't know why its working now, it only crashed for me when trying to load a playlist, what I changed has nothing to do with playlists, or codecs for that matter