Vista Beta Media Center and XBOX 360 Extender

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ChrisMc73 - 25 Aug 2006 17:30 GMT

I got the XBOX 360 to find the Media Center PC and vice versa pretty easy. I
let the extender search and find all my music on my media drive, but
something is wrong because my album count on the Media Center PC is 1,972,
but on the extender the album count is only 1,905. I even tried to copy the
database file over to the mcx1 user, from my user where the file is like
208MB, and it reloaded all the albums again but still with only 1,905 and not
the expected 1,972.

Any ideas?

Another issue is now that the MCX (XB360) has loaded all these 1,905 up,
when I shut down and bring it back up, its acting like it has to reload them
all again, like its not cached? Same thing on my Vista Media Center PC, it
just starts to reload, like its not keeping them in cache...? What gives?

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Anon - 29 Aug 2006 09:20 GMT

Chris I'm also having similar problems on build 5536 of Vista Ultimate:

1. No caching. Performance miserable. Especially with 200gig+ of mpeg4-asp
avi's that it wants to thumbnail and generally bring my sys to a grinding
death.

2. Every time I want to optimise the 360 using the optimise within settings,
the 360 gets disconnected and nothing appears to happen.

3. Really, WMV and mpeg1/2 support is so narrow. Where is the mpeg4-asp and
avc support.....Divx was problematic, XVID compile v1.2 with the smp patch
seems to work ok. CoreAVC v1.5 is ok but will crash WMP11 in some cases of
shutting down before the footage is finished.

4. How the hell does a user disable the performance robbing thumbnaills
within media centre? I'd prefer not to slow down everything and just go by
filenames.

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ChrisMc73 - 29 Aug 2006 17:01 GMT

I'd rather have the thumbnails, I don't think they are performance robbing
besides the fact that it try to reload them everytime after closing media
center, you'd think it should cache it, its just reading xml data, why does
it have to re read it?

> Chris I'm also having similar problems on build 5536 of Vista Ultimate:
>
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> within media centre? I'd prefer not to slow down everything and just go by
> filenames.

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JW - 29 Aug 2006 17:16 GMT

You certainly would not them permently cached in Main Memory till you
rebooted. The operating system does effectifly cache them since it will not
reuse the memory they are in till it is the available memory that contains
data that has not been used for the longest amount of time

> I'd rather have the thumbnails, I don't think they are performance robbing
> besides the fact that it try to reload them everytime after closing media
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>> by
>> filenames.

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