STS 2.0 Blender Workouts are Freezing Between Chapters

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fitnation

Cathlete
Hello SNM,
I have noticed that when I create a workout blender workout using the STS 2.0 chapters that many of the chapters freeze just before changing chapters. The next chapter will not start/play. This has happened quite a few times and to the point that I do not want to use the blender for STS 2.0 workouts. I have cast the workouts from my phone and ipad and I have used Apple TV but to no avail because it happens with all of them.

I have also noticed that if I play my STS 2.0 blender workouts on Apple TV, ipad or an iphone, I am not getting the "up next" prompt. If I play the same workout from Cathe.com I see the "up next" prompt.

I wonder is this chapter freezing problem in the blender is related to the problem with some of my DVD chapters not advancing properly if I hit "next?"

Any help you can provide would be most welcome. Thanks.
 
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fitnation, I am right there with you and several others. I have mentioned this a couple times too, nothing is worse than if you are laying on the step, say doing a chest press and then the next chapter freezes and you have to get up, try to get it to play, lay back down and it does it again!!! Agreed, not fun. And you never know which ones are going to do it! I have put a lot of new workouts chapters in with other workouts chapters and
they can do it that way too….all other workouts chapters don’t. The other day I did a 31
minute blender workout that eventually took me 45 min. To do because of the freezing.
 
aqua girl said:
fitnation, I am right there with you and several others. I have mentioned this a couple times too, nothing is worse than if you are laying on the step, say doing a chest press and then the next chapter freezes and you have to get up, try to get it to play, lay back down and it does it again!!! Agreed, not fun. And you never know which ones are going to do it! I have put a lot of new workouts chapters in with other workouts chapters and
they can do it that way too….all other workouts chapters don’t. The other day I did a 31
minute blender workout that eventually took me 45 min. To do because of the freezing.
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It was so bad today that I could not even advance to the next chapter at all! I had to keep going back to the menu and selecting the next chapter. The workout today took much longer than necessary because of all of the stalling and freezing. I guess until the problem is resolved, I will use my DVDs (at least the STS 2.0 DVDs that will play properly) but I much prefer to create my own blender workouts.
 
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No, they have not said anything about that…..they are looking into the red screen issue in scarecrows, but nothing about the freezing….
 
I also get freezing problems, but I also get them with non-STS 2.0 workouts I have blended. Usually, it freezes once or twice but I made a blended yoga workout using Yoga Max, Yoga Relax and Perfect 30 Yoga and Mobility and it kept freezing on me. But it doesn't happen all the time, sometimes it plays right through. It also isn't necessarily at the start of a chapter; it sometimes freezes in the middle of the chapter. Sometimes the Live workouts will freeze for a bit and then continue on with a lower resolution. I use a laptop connected to my TV via a HDMI cable. I haven't done that many of the STS 2.0 workouts and most of the ones I have done have been premixes. A few of them have frozen and then carried on but others, like the Supersets one, I had to exit the workout, go back in, and select the chapter I wanted.

I remember years ago forum admin was explaining how the workouts are located on cloud servers around the world and this can cause issues for new workouts as video files are only updated from the storage server to the cloud server when someone requests them, and it takes a number of requests for different versions of each video file to be cached on the cloud server (i.e. lower resolution and higher resolution files). I'm not sure if this is what is causing the freezing in my case with these new workouts. Being in New Zealand, maybe the cloud server I am linking to doesn't have as many requests for workouts. But I don't think it is the same issue with the older blended workouts. If I've played it a few times, it should be cached on the cloud server I link to. I suspect with the older workouts it could be internet connection issues.
 
Hazlady said:
I also get freezing problems, but I also get them with non-STS 2.0 workouts I have blended. Usually, it freezes once or twice but I made a blended yoga workout using Yoga Max, Yoga Relax and Perfect 30 Yoga and Mobility and it kept freezing on me. But it doesn't happen all the time, sometimes it plays right through. It also isn't necessarily at the start of a chapter; it sometimes freezes in the middle of the chapter. Sometimes the Live workouts will freeze for a bit and then continue on with a lower resolution. I use a laptop connected to my TV via a HDMI cable. I haven't done that many of the STS 2.0 workouts and most of the ones I have done have been premixes. A few of them have frozen and then carried on but others, like the Supersets one, I had to exit the workout, go back in, and select the chapter I wanted.

I remember years ago forum admin was explaining how the workouts are located on cloud servers around the world and this can cause issues for new workouts as video files are only updated from the storage server to the cloud server when someone requests them, and it takes a number of requests for different versions of each video file to be cached on the cloud server (i.e. lower resolution and higher resolution files). I'm not sure if this is what is causing the freezing in my case with these new workouts. Being in New Zealand, maybe the cloud server I am linking to doesn't have as many requests for workouts. But I don't think it is the same issue with the older blended workouts. If I've played it a few times, it should be cached on the cloud server I link to. I suspect with the older workouts it could be internet connection issues.
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Thank you for the reply. Today after a chapter froze, I could not get the chapters to advance at all. Also, the "Up Next" message/prompt was missing from the chapters. Hopefully there will be a resolution to the problem.
 
I point blank asked on the other thread, but no reply as of yet. Yes, sometimes they play straight thru and sometimes they freeze, sometimes you can get them started up again,
and sometimes they won’t play no matter what you do. But, as a rule, I don’t experience that with any other chapters that are before STS 2.
 
OMG, I just attempted to do a blender workout which started with the Chest warmup..&
it froze up after about 30 sec. Tried again and did the same thing… I just gave up…certainly hope they get this fixed…..
 
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