Okay I'll start this post off by saying that I registered to hopefully get this bug (if it is considered as such) fixed, but I'd like to also say that the OBSproject is simply fantastic and I really like where this, and the community, is going.
...Down to the problem. My OBS (no matter if it's the stable or beta versions) cannot stream when I tell it to fetch for a text file with song details from a network computer. By cannot stream, I mean that as soon as I turn on the stream, I will see the text file's contents being displayed, but everything will freeze up and 5 seconds later OBS will crash. I will include the OBSCrashLog in a spoiler below. Here's the .dmp (dump) file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2unakirpz9qo ... 6-26_2.dmp
If you need an alternate mirror ask away.
Now onto why you should even go about fixing this "bug" (I'm using quotes because I have not heard of anyone on the forums displaying their song through networking). A long time ago (perhaps more than a year and a half) I was using Xsplit (mind you at the time I did not know about OBS, and it was also in its less primal beta stages, to the point where it was compared to the weak FFsplit), and streamed using a dual-PC setup. Using networking, I would send the metadata of a song to Xsplit with NowPlayingSimple (foobar plugin). It was an easy way to display the song playing by pointing the stream PC to the gaming PC's text output (e.g. //Gaming-PC/NowPlayingShare/NowPlaying.txt).
About two weeks ago I tried the same thing with OBS, only to find that it would crash everytime I loaded up the network text, and if I loaded up locally updated text, it would run fine (the networked text didn't even have to update, it just crashed OBS upon loading). I took the network text off, and the stream ran fine again. I really want this feature, but could understand if it's a minor bug that would be worked out eventually someday in the future where all the other minor bugs are already worked out. Why is it a feature to me? Well, I don't listen to music on the streaming PC and need to send the metadata text over to it. I have no doubt in my mind that if the networked text was working, I'd be able to display the currently playing song and its playback time and remaining length. Thanks for hearing me out, I really appreciate it!
...Down to the problem. My OBS (no matter if it's the stable or beta versions) cannot stream when I tell it to fetch for a text file with song details from a network computer. By cannot stream, I mean that as soon as I turn on the stream, I will see the text file's contents being displayed, but everything will freeze up and 5 seconds later OBS will crash. I will include the OBSCrashLog in a spoiler below. Here's the .dmp (dump) file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r2unakirpz9qo ... 6-26_2.dmp
If you need an alternate mirror ask away.
Now onto why you should even go about fixing this "bug" (I'm using quotes because I have not heard of anyone on the forums displaying their song through networking). A long time ago (perhaps more than a year and a half) I was using Xsplit (mind you at the time I did not know about OBS, and it was also in its less primal beta stages, to the point where it was compared to the weak FFsplit), and streamed using a dual-PC setup. Using networking, I would send the metadata of a song to Xsplit with NowPlayingSimple (foobar plugin). It was an easy way to display the song playing by pointing the stream PC to the gaming PC's text output (e.g. //Gaming-PC/NowPlayingShare/NowPlaying.txt).
About two weeks ago I tried the same thing with OBS, only to find that it would crash everytime I loaded up the network text, and if I loaded up locally updated text, it would run fine (the networked text didn't even have to update, it just crashed OBS upon loading). I took the network text off, and the stream ran fine again. I really want this feature, but could understand if it's a minor bug that would be worked out eventually someday in the future where all the other minor bugs are already worked out. Why is it a feature to me? Well, I don't listen to music on the streaming PC and need to send the metadata text over to it. I have no doubt in my mind that if the networked text was working, I'd be able to display the currently playing song and its playback time and remaining length. Thanks for hearing me out, I really appreciate it!