It's definitely part of XSI, and I've noticed it too whenever I use mov
files. One more oddity; I've found it to crash Maya randomly whenever I
have XSI and Maya running side-by-side with XSI using a .mov file as a
viewport background and Maya also having a camera image plane with
another .mov file :D
Yours sincerely,
Siew Yi Liang
On 5/28/2014 12:13 AM, Ales Dlabac wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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.
