RE: Recorded TV listing is very slow with a large number of record

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Hi again Brian Baker:
Thanks for the tip. I guess for now I'll just quit at 2 T.B. I take
the pc with me in the rv on long road trips and can pick programs from the pc
to watch on rainy days in areas of no tv reception LOL. 2 T.B. will cover a
lot of rainy days I guess!

xiowan..........in tucson

"Brian Baker" wrote:

Xiowan,

I use 750GB disks and I have one for each day of the week. I then run a
script every night to change the MCE recording path to the next disk. I
found that it is much easier to do this way, rather then spanning disks. If
you try to span disks then you have the problem of losing everything when one
disk fails. The other option would be to use RAID, but recorded tv does not
warrant redundancy in my mind.

I hope this helps. However if you do choose this type of option then we
will both be waiting 2 minutes for the Recorded TV menu to come up. Maybe
that will cause someone from MS to fix it or at least respond to this thread.
:-)

I am really tempted to switch to LinuxMCE because it does not have this same
type of problem, but then I would have to get rid of the 5 Xbox360s that I
use as extenders.


"xiowan" wrote:

Hi Brian Baker:
I have a MCE2005 pc with nearly 2 TB of recorded video and I can imagine
it takes a while to display your list since it is 3x larger. I don't know
how to solve your problem but I have a question.........I thought XP had a 2
TB limit on the total formatted hard drive capacity and wondered how you were
able to accomplish this as I am nearing that limit. I have read something
about XP using either basic volumes or dynamic volumes...........are you
using dynamic volumes on your drives? I tried using Vista Home Premium on
this pc but found that the Vista media center interface displays an icon for
each listing & was taking too long to load and too long to scroll thru so I
went back to XP

xiowan...........in tucson

"Brian Baker" wrote:

I have been using Media Center for quite some time and for the most part it
is great. However, we have anywhere from 2000 to 2500 TV recordings at any
one time. When we bring up the Recorded TV listing it takes up to 2 minutes
to display the list. We have had this problem on multiple different media
center PCs and the same problem exists in XP as well as Vista. This tells me
that Media Center itself is spending way too much time looking at something
before it displays the list. Is there any way to stop Media Center from
doing whatever it is that it is doing when displaying the TV listing?

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