zittrig wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2025 8:57 pm
Have you tried to disable USB selective power saving?
I tried this but it didn't fix the problem.
What finally helped was to turn on a feature called "USB power share" in the MSI center software (it's a MSI laptop) under features > general settings. So far the freezing has not happened since. Somehow this was causing problems with my drive.
I had to join the forum because this has been bugging me for months and never once thought it was the player I use or the USB it's plugged into. I've been having this problem on both MPC-HC and VLC with the exact same drive, also had Windows Explorer freeze, and then both MPC-HC and VLC will freeze if I open them right away without waiting a while. I managed to fix it and so far haven't had any freezes.
What I did was
Open Device Manager
Click on PIONEER BD-RW BDR-UD04 USB device
Up top click View > Devices by Connection
Then right click > Properties on the USB input it was plugged into, for me it was USB Mass Storage Device
Go to the Power Management tab
Turn off "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" and click Ok
and that seems to be it, if it freezes again then I know it's something else but so far nothing I've watched has frozen.
Really late update: Yeah, that didn't work, maybe it freezes less, I'm not sure.