Are you sure it's part of XSI? We are dealing with locked files too(even without using any mov file in scene) but I never noticed that application.
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Ed Manning <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey -- > > I guess this is the only place to bring up bugs for Soft now?!? > > Okay, Soft now starts something called MediaFileParserServer.exe whenever > any sort of movie file is present in a scene. If you start a render and > then abort it, for some reason, even though there's no obvious reason for > an executable that deals with input formats to care about output images, > you can't delete the stub file that an aborted render often leaves behind; > Windows thinks MediaFileParserServer.exe is using that stub file. > > You can't kill the MediaFileParserServer.exe process without putting Soft > in an unstable state, so you have to kill Soft in order to release the lock > on the stub file. > > I don't recall ever seeing this executable in the process viewer -- is it > new for 2014? My workaround will be to not use movie files, which will be > inconvenient as a lot of image sequence assets from my clients get > delivered to me as .mov or .avi. > > >
