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Author Topic: Dolby DSS200 timer stops while film continues (Video included) Philip Jones Film Handler Posts: 90 From: England Registered: Dec 2011 posted 12-07-2012 05:10 PM                     As the title says, has anyone had the timer\counter thing stop on a DSS200 while the picture and sound continue on screen? It happened the other day here, and then again earlier today when I took this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5FYBmmdxoM&feature=youtu.be The audience reported the picture froze on screen for about a second before continuing and the rest of the show played out as it should, but with the timer stuck at the position shown! None of the cues were activated when the credits came on. We had to manually press stop at the end and the next show ran just fine tonight. I've sent all this over to our NOC but thought Film-Tech might be interested or be able to shed some light on it.  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 12-07-2012 05:54 PM                     Software version?  |  IP: Logged Philip Jones Film Handler Posts: 90 From: England Registered: Dec 2011 posted 12-07-2012 06:11 PM                     4.3.0.11  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 12-07-2012 06:29 PM                     aka 4.3.5 (13). That is not my favorite version and most any that I had on that version I put back on 4.5.3 (9) or moved onto DCI compliant 4.4 or 4.5. I have not had that problem but again, that is the version I have dealt with the least. It boots up odd, it has strange "print through" on config screens and overall...it gave me the heebie-geebies. If you got a freeze on screen...check the reallocated sectors in the System tab...see if one of the RAID drives had had issues.  |  IP: Logged Kevin Fairchild Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: Kennewick, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2008 posted 12-07-2012 06:37 PM                     I had a similar issue once. I uploaded a corrupt key via FTP. The system didn't know what to do with it and it ate up resources. I ran unconfig to delete all content. Solved it.  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 12-08-2012 04:40 AM                     I have seen many 4.3.5-13 and I've never come across that. Has it happened only once or does it happen on a regular basis?  |  IP: Logged Philip Jones Film Handler Posts: 90 From: England Registered: Dec 2011 posted 12-08-2012 04:59 AM                     Happened for the first time on Tuesday and then again yesterday. It's actually very similar to a problem we had about 6 months ago which ended up with the server being swapped out..  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 12-08-2012 08:44 AM                     I guess you need someone to review your logs to find out where the problem lies. What I can suggest is to check whether the issue happens during the same clip all the time or whether common clips are present in the affected playlists.  |  IP: Logged Yinghong Wu Film Handler Posts: 32 From: Suzhou Jiangsu China Registered: Apr 2012 posted 12-08-2012 11:11 PM                     Just as Steve said We met the problem like yours sometimes ago.Our server is DSS100 which soft version is 4.3.5.13.Finally we reinstall the Raid5 and reinstall the software the problem well solved.Good Luck.^-^  |  IP: Logged

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