definitely part of XSI, and I'm nearly certain it's new in 2014.
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Ales Dlabac <[email protected]> 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]> 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. >> >> >> >
