• Avid Media Composer

  Initializing Media Stream Manager Freezing Start Up

  Posted by Arica West on February 12, 2011 at 7:29 pm

  I am working with Avid 5 on a MacPro. When I start up my Avid it freezes once it hits “initializing media stream manager.” And then two error messages come up, “Exception:MSM:No directory specified_3.” And “Segment fault in main thread, at address 0x0.”

  Any advice on what I should do to fix this problem?

  Thanks!

  Arica

  Arica West replied 15 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  James Beattie

  February 14, 2011 at 4:12 pm

  This error is relating to the Avid MediaFiles folder on your media drive. The Avid may not have read/write permissions to this volume properly. Does it state which drive this is occurring on? You can go in and rename the Avid MediaFiles folder to xAvid MediaFiles and see if the Avid launches properly. However, your media will be offline.

  If you get into the Avid software properly, open a project, and import a small graphic file to drive (where the xAvid Mediafiles folder is on). This will create a new Avid MediaFiles folder that is happy. Now, go into your xAvid MediaFiles folder, then into the MXF folder, and copy the contents of the MXF folder to the new Avid MediaFiles\MXF folder. don’t overwrite MSM.fmid or MSM.pmr.
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  Arica West

  February 14, 2011 at 4:40 pm

  Thank you for your reply. I actually already fixed the problem. For anyone who has this issue simply delete any files with “msmFMID” and “msmMMOB” off your computer. Restart. Then re-launch Avid and it should work fine.

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