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Import issues with AntiVir, Haali and FFDShow (OS Win)

PhaseZero
The import for even a small number of media files can be painfully slow, unreliable and result often in crashes of MediaPro. This happens also just for a few simple JPG files/directories without RAW or video/audio files. I detected the following issues on my Win7 and Vista 32 bit PCs:

  • Antivir http://www.avira.com might slow down the import process. I disabled to real time protection temporarily. However I have no real knowlege if this really helps.

  • The installed Haali-Media-Splitter (HS) http://haali.su/mkv apparently causes some trouble. I can see in the task bar dozens of HS-Icons during import, which disappear on mouse hover. I deinstalled HS, because I do not know how Haali can be disabled for MP import.

  • I have Installed Ffdshow (FS) Direct Show codecs http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net. I configured FS to give a pop-up menu in case an applications is requesting the usage. With this I could disable the usage of FS permanently or temporarily (white/black list). I do not know if this helps, but this could be a problem on systems, where FS in not configured in such an interactive way.

May be such hints can help users, who still have to live with Win32bit. I don't think that with Win63bit the above issues will dissapear.

During import I often can see ImportSrv.exe processes of MP in the WinTaskManager. Sometimes multiple of such processes are running. Sometimes ImportSrv.exe or MediaPro.exe are heavily us RAM and CPU. If one ImportSrv.exe is using more than 1 GByte of RAM the killing of such process can help and does often have no negative impact on the running MP application. Watching CPU, RAM usage and the toktal number of Labels or FileTypes in MP CatalogFields is a must to understand the status of MP during import.

Best Regards from PhaseZero (P0)
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  • PhaseZero
    Orginally I followed the usual workflow recommendation to use the PhaseOne rendering engine instead of Windows Imaging Component (WIC) engine. I just started with MediaPro (MP) and Phaseone (P1) and considered this rendering configuration as the best way.

    That was apparently a mistake and now a miracle occured:

    I tried the FastPictureViewer (FPW) Codecs on my two Windows 32bit PCs. See http://fastpictureviewer.com/codecs. With this the file import is 5 times faster and with much less errors, crashes and drawbacks. May be the other issues with Haali, Ffdshow & AntiVir are now less relevant.

    I hope, that my planned workflow between MP and P1 will be affected. The pain is gone and I am now starting to enjoy MediaPro. New customers trying MediaPro for 30-days will certainly be dissapointed, when using MP without FPW. Why is there no information about this before MP download?

    Is this codec rendering only a problem with Windows-PCs and no issue on MACs?

    Best Regards from PhaseZero
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  • rmoorlag
    Is this codec rendering only a problem with Windows-PCs and no issue on MACs?


    Yes, I think it was more an issue on Win7 machines than on Apple, however only on 64bit Win7 (Win7 32bit, Vista 64/32 bit and even XP the rendering of RAW images was ok). I myself did buy the FastPictureCodec Pack also (only a few buck) but not long ago Microsoft did introduce theirselfs the 'Microsoft Camera Codec Pack (16.0.0652.0621)'. Did you tried this codec also?

    'Demo':
    Downloadlink:

    Roelof
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  • PhaseZero
    Thank you Roelof,

    with RAW I did not yet start any imports. Up to now I have the key issues with JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, ... so practically all picture formats. I think that a couple of small video files and truetype fonts are affecting also the import heavily. And this on my Win7 32bit and Vista 32bit machines.

    Best Regards from PhaseZero
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