PS3 Folder Limit & How You Navigate w/Controler
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 5:32 pm
OK, I've been beating my head against this for a couple days and think I've stumbled on to something... at least I hope so, since I've not found anything like it on the boards.
It has to do with the folder limits in the PS3 and how you use your PS3 controller to browse through the Channel menus. My theory is only use the X and O buttons to execute your selections, X to make a selection (your only choice) and O to exit or back out one level (the Directional pad can also do this but this is where I think the issue happens). My thought is if the left directional pad button is used to back up a level it does something to confuse the folder limit and not properly executed or registered but I'm not sure if that's because of the PS3 or in UMS. When using the directional button I eventually get the following:
[New I/O server worker #1-1] Depth limit potentionally hit for "whatever it was I tried to view"
Followed by:
[New I/O server worker #1-1] setting folder lim ChannelPMSSaveFolder [id=11, name="whatever it was I tried to view", full path=0$8$11$3$2$141$16$11, ext=null, discovered=false]
And from then on nothing is viewable on the PS3 until I reboot both it and UMS.
TEST 1
To test this I rebooted both the PS3 & UMS and used only X and O to execute as described above in IceFilms and was able to view 3-4 shows without one problem!Then to verify the directions button would force a folder limit used it to back out 3 levels and selected another show from a folder I had previously accessed. Like clockwork it gave me the notorious "THIS CONTENT CANNOT BE PLAYED. (800288E1)" error. I checked the logs and sure enough it said the Depth limit was hit.
I zipped the logs and have attached, I have some more tests in mind to either prove or disprove and will post.
*** Should also mention that I have the folder_limit=true set in the UMS.conf and once this happens the Folder Limit trick on the PS3 might work the first time but that is all, it doesn't seem to clear or reset upon new folder limits.
It has to do with the folder limits in the PS3 and how you use your PS3 controller to browse through the Channel menus. My theory is only use the X and O buttons to execute your selections, X to make a selection (your only choice) and O to exit or back out one level (the Directional pad can also do this but this is where I think the issue happens). My thought is if the left directional pad button is used to back up a level it does something to confuse the folder limit and not properly executed or registered but I'm not sure if that's because of the PS3 or in UMS. When using the directional button I eventually get the following:
[New I/O server worker #1-1] Depth limit potentionally hit for "whatever it was I tried to view"
Followed by:
[New I/O server worker #1-1] setting folder lim ChannelPMSSaveFolder [id=11, name="whatever it was I tried to view", full path=0$8$11$3$2$141$16$11, ext=null, discovered=false]
And from then on nothing is viewable on the PS3 until I reboot both it and UMS.
TEST 1
To test this I rebooted both the PS3 & UMS and used only X and O to execute as described above in IceFilms and was able to view 3-4 shows without one problem!Then to verify the directions button would force a folder limit used it to back out 3 levels and selected another show from a folder I had previously accessed. Like clockwork it gave me the notorious "THIS CONTENT CANNOT BE PLAYED. (800288E1)" error. I checked the logs and sure enough it said the Depth limit was hit.
I zipped the logs and have attached, I have some more tests in mind to either prove or disprove and will post.
*** Should also mention that I have the folder_limit=true set in the UMS.conf and once this happens the Folder Limit trick on the PS3 might work the first time but that is all, it doesn't seem to clear or reset upon new folder limits.