Wm5 Tcpmp Fails Over Time

[Digitalbanana]

I'm using WM5 and TCPMP movie player to watch divx 2 hour movie files on my pocket PC phone. After time of say several weeks from a operationg system hard reset, the TCPMP player hangs with insufficient buffer warnings... on files that played previously. Anyone else know what is going on? I get same issues with all versions of TCPMP since 0.66 to latest 0.81?

[malcolmswaine]

Windows Mobile just leaves processes hanging around in the background when you close apps by using the X close icon, and doesn’t actually kill the process at all. I’m guessing this is probably the issue. The app you are using may have a slow memory leak, and since the process is never actually terminated by the operating system, it continues to hog more and more system resources.

I'm not sure about your particular setup, but if this is the case, see if you can find a 'task manager' like utility for viewing the running processes on the device. Killing the process off periodically, one would suspect would solve the problem.

Hope that helps.

*The default behaviour is not to kill the process when the user clicks the X close button, but this can be over-ridden.

Edited November 10, 2008 by malcolmswaine

[Digitalbanana]

Yes, I thought so too, been using MemMaid to kill all the stuff left over, rebooting and still TCPMP has issues.... haven't found anything else yet that works on big avi files tho.