Everything was running fine, but if I left the OpenPHT stopped or doing nothing for a long period it deteriorates the performance to a point that nothing else works. If you try to quit e restart the application it keeps bouncing but doesn’t really starts.
The only way to make it work is to restart the Mac.
My mac is a mac mini connected via hdmi to a receiver. Any ideas ?
Hi all,
Is it happening only with me ? I tried to reinstall El Captain from the scratch and it did not solve the problem ?
What I can realize is that the system is ok for everything else but OpenPHT, Plex or PMP. It should be something in common with them.
Any ideas would be welcome.
I was having a very similar problem with Plex Home Theater. It turned out to be related to my Mac Mini losing its HDMI handshake with my receiver. If the Mac Mini was not being used for a few hours or I switched away to a different HDMI source on the TV, etc., Plex would freeze up and eventually the Mac had to be rebooted. What was happening was that the Mac would start trying to route audio through its internal speakers instead of using the receiver. If Plex was open while the Mac was having this subtle hiccup in the background, it’d start going south.
Search around for “HDMI Handshake” and you’ll find that it’s actually a pretty common problem for people using Macs to power a home theater system - Plex becoming non-responsive just being a symptom of the wider issue.
To fix it, a lot of people recommend buying a gadget called the “HDMI Detective.” It’s for sale on places like Amazon, along with one or two similar alternatives. A little bit pricy, for what it is - but no one seems to have found a software solution, so if this $100+ piece of hardware keeps you from having to reboot your Mac every day, it’s probably worth it.
I personally didn’t buy the HDMI detective. Instead I took a gamble and bought an all-new AV receiver… I’d been looking to do a major upgrade to my old receiver anyway… And luckily my new Yamaha receiver has resolved all of the Mac Mini HDMI handshake/Plex-freezing problems.
Hi,
I went back to Yosemite and it solve the problem. This week I tried again El Captain but the problem persists.
I believe it’s something related to the OS.
Interestingly enough I had the same problem with PMP (latest 1.06). My OpenPHT (latest) doesn’t have this problem or original PHT.
I’m just migrating from Kodi to OpenPHT as the combination with plex media server is far more flexible. Unfortunately I have the same issue as the original poster: when my receiver turns off and back on again then OpenPHT crashes when I try to play something. In fact it seems to crash the OSX sound system too, as I can’t load the Sound preferences in OSX System Preferences after that - it needs a full reboot to recover.
But I don’t think it should need a $100 spend. Kodi works fine and doesn’t have the issue - which suggests that while it may be a change in El Capitain, it’s OpenPHT that might have a problem?
