MediaBrowser

[Orbital Shark]

Is any1 else experiencing extreme slowdown?

I've not got the best specs but Media Centre runs fine, it's just Media Browser that slows e.g. When navigating TV Series the screen transition is just too slow.

Any ideas would be great

 

[Mark]

No I have had the opposite, mine seems too fast and it always moves past the the movie I want to select.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Yeah, that happens to me too but once selected it seems to slow down and i have to (very slowly) back out to the start menu.

I'll try to post pics of what i mean

 

[Orbital Shark]

Hmmm, seems to speed up when i'm running in Windowed mode

 

[zay]

Yeah I noticed that as well (the slow transition). However if I use the mouse to try and select, it rolls right past it; I have to use my arrows to get a more controlled selection. I am getting my parts together for a faster machine, hopefully I won't have the same issue.
BTW, what is windowed mode? I probably know, but call it a different name, lol.

 

[zay]

Here is a link to a cool site for free stuff for your MC
MCE ZONE: For all your Media Center Needs

 

[Orbital Shark]

Click the centre icon and it will run in Windowed mode (ignore the battery icon in this pic LOL).

 

[zay]

Oh you mean, like in a smaller window, lol. Told you I knew what it was haha. Thanks man.

 

[DemonSeed]

Orbital Shark try going to your Program Data/Media Browser/Cache
and delete everything inside and let MB rebuild and see how it does.

Mine did that once and that fixed it.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Thanks for that but it didn't do the trick. When i'm viewing (not playing) a movie and it's showing the backdrop & details it just gets slower & slower. As soon as i exit full screen mode it wakes up again & is 100%

 

[zay]

Maybe take it out of Vanilla theme, and see if that helps. I know the whole point is get that sweet looking back drop behind each movie, but try it with out the back drop and see. Like try a detail option and see.

 

[Orbital Shark]

I've solved it!!!

It's all to do with my Video memory. I've just been watching the latest episode of Heroes pied to my TV (not extended or duplicated), native resolution of 1024x768. No slowdown what so ever as i navigate from screen to screen.

It's all to do with my screen resolution, while WMC works fine with my shared Video memory, Media Browser must need more so a lower resolution decreases the Video resources neede.

This is perfect as i only watch WMC on my TV anyway

+rep to those who tried to help

 

[DemonSeed]

Good Im glad you got it.

Hey check it out I just got dune with my intro!
I forgot to add sound to this copy but you get the picture.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFJtkPwlVv4"]YouTube - DemonSeed's Intro[/ame]

So what do y'all think?

 

[zay]

Glad you got it worked out Shark. On another note, anyone tried ShoutCast as yet. I know we all love music, and this is streaming music inside of MC.
mcShoutCast, Internetradio, media center

 

[zay]

Good Im glad you got it.

Hey check it out I just got dune with my intro!
I forgot to add sound to this copy but you get the picture.

YouTube - DemonSeed's Intro

So what do y'all think?

Yeah, major props for that Demon. I will re-render mine tonight. How do you plan to use yours? Just run it on movie night when you got your friends over, right before you launch the actual movie....?

 

[Orbital Shark]

I've also worked out how to trick Media Browser into thinking you have plenty more video & tv files.

Create a text file in your movies folder and call it what you wan (The Matrix) for example, then change the Search & View options to view extentions of known files. Then change the .txt to .avi ...... Simple.

I just love testing this out

 

[DemonSeed]

Yeah, major props for that Demon. I will re-render mine tonight. How do you plan to use yours? Just run it on movie night when you got your friends over, right before you launch the actual movie....?

I will add a copy to my movie folders and give it the name of the movie01 and add 02 to the actual movie name and it will play on start up of the movies I add it to.

 

[DemonSeed]

I've also worked out how to trick Media Browser into thinking you have plenty more video & tv files.

Create a text file in your movies folder and call it what you wan (The Matrix) for example, then change the Search & View options to view extentions of known files. Then change the .txt to .avi ...... Simple.

I just love testing this out

I'm not 100% on why you want to look like you have lots of files?
Having lots of files can be a pain.
See I Know.

 

[Orbital Shark]

Yeah, but i had 200 movies (not much i know LOL) on my external HD.



Before it blew up



I miss my movies LOL

 

[DemonSeed]

Aaaw That Sucks!
I Hate doing things twice!

Makes Me MAD :mad2::mad2::mad2:

Iv been lucky I guess I have 8 hard drives
I started out about 3 years ago with 1 and it been growing every sence.
Up to like 4Tb almost and no failures yet...
(Knock On Wood)