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HereSphere VR Video Player (Meta Quest)

VR video player with immersion-enhancing algorithms, streaming, and media library features · By HereSphere

Deleting files from SMB share crashes HereSphere!

A topic by vampgirl created Jul 23, 2022 Views: 402 Replies: 4
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First of all I want to thank you for this great peace of software. HereSphere is a GEM! I have talked about it and invited people to try it on every occasion I had. You have updated HereSphere few times optimizing and fixing SMB issues. But for me all versions have been working perfect and without any glitch with SMB. The only problem I have is that often ( not always) when I try to delete a file HereSphere crashes and I have to run it again! Being able to delete file from within the software is a great option. So I hope that you will be able to fix this problem. It would be even better to be able to select a folder and delete the entire folder. 

Also HereSphere normally auto detect perfectly all videos, but in rare cases when it dose not, a fast shortcut on the seek bar to change modes (180, 200, 360 ect) would be a nice option. As if I didn't miss anything, right now you need to go to advance video settings and manually enter numbers.

Thanks again! You have already come up with the best existing player and I wish you all the success you deserve.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for reporting the issue. I'll try to figure out what's causing the crash with the SMB file deletion. It might be caused by a video not fully closing before the delete operation is started. Deleting folders is risky, because users could lose a lot of data accidentally. I'll consider adding some fast shortcuts for switching the modes when redesigning the UI in the future.

Thanks for your reply. After reading your reply I tested again and you are totally right. If I stop the video playback myself and then delete the file it will work with no problem. For some reason HereSphere is not successful in stopping the file before deleting it. Not a big problem after all as we can manually stop the playback now that we know. 

I am also having this problem of it crashing during the file deletion, probably it fails 80% of the time, sometimes it looks like it worked and the file is even not listed anymore, but after refreshing the folder it comes back. I tried pausing, stopping, deleting a file that's not playing, nothing helps. The only thing that works is restarting the app, then it likely can successfully delete the first 1-2 files, but after that it starts crashing again. Yeah it's probably related to it not being able to close the files properly, likely even not the one you are trying to delete but previous ones you watched before that. It freezes during that notification "trying to close open files". 

It's very strange as few days ago after the response from the DEV I tried again and I was able to delete files with no problem after first stopping the video playback and then use the delete shortcut. I tried again tonight and it was not working! I stopped the playback first, but after choosing delete HereSphere crashes and close. When I open it again the file I tried to delete is still there and if I try over again I get the exact same result! Also I found that one of the files successfully deleted the last time was back! (Certainly never got deleted) .