It's a 32-bit app for dealing with Quicktime. I don't see it in the 2011 install folder, but I do in 2012 SP1.
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2012 SP1\Application\bin\MediaFileParserServer On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Ed Manning <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >>> >>> >>> >> >
