Media portal takes a long time to launch IF you have networked media locations (1 Viewer)

[madfred45]

Hi,

I think I have found the issuse with media located on network shares...
MP tries to access files which are not there.

Have a look at this thread. But there is no reply...
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-support-51/very-slow-browsing-speed-smb-shares-104875/

Hope someone could confirm this.

Thanks,

Madfred

 

[JBravo]

Is your Qnap set to spin down the hard drives when nothing is happening ?

Spins down after 15 min of inactivity.

 

[shadowze]

I know mine spins down because it is in a cupboard in the room (so I can hear the drives spin up)
Iam also using an older version of the qnap firmware due to the spin down NOT working on some of the later versions

 

[JBravo]

I know mine spins down because it is in a cupboard in the room (so I can hear the drives spin up)
Iam also using an older version of the qnap firmware due to the spin down NOT working on some of the later versions

I did also have some problems with the Qnap not spinning down, the problem was not the Qnap itself but related to my MP TV server running 24/7. As long as the TV Server (Win XP) was running the Qnap did not sping down. I then disabled NetBios over TCP/IP for the MP TV server, and then the Qnap spun down as it should.

The MP TV server now run Win 7 x64, and does not interfere with the Qnap.

Did you try TCPView to see current connections?

 

[shadowze]

I know mine spins down because it is in a cupboard in the room (so I can hear the drives spin up)
Iam also using an older version of the qnap firmware due to the spin down NOT working on some of the later versions

I did also have some problems with the Qnap not spinning down, the problem was not the Qnap itself but related to my MP TV server running 24/7. As long as the TV Server (Win XP) was running the Qnap did not sping down. I then disabled NetBios over TCP/IP for the MP TV server, and then the Qnap spun down as it should.

The MP TV server now run Win 7 x64, and does not interfere with the Qnap.

Did you try TCPView to see current connections?

No , why would I need to use tcpview ?
The problem is some change in the code in mediaportal validating folders locations etc
This problem only surfaced 2 versions ago

Any chance of some input from a dev ?

 

[JBravo]

TCPView is always good when troubleshooting network related stuff.

An observation, MP is both started and up and running here before my Qnap has spun up the disks...

A long shot, try to disable loading of Playlists at MP startup; Music - MediaPortal Wiki

 

[shadowze]

TCPView is always good when troubleshooting network related stuff.

An observation, MP is both started and up and running here before my Qnap has spun up the disks...

A long shot, try to disable loading of Playlists at MP startup; Music - MediaPortal Wiki

Hmmm , so your PC is off , you switch it on , it boots , loads windows , starts media portal and media portal loads successfully while
your Qnap discs are spun down ?

No offense but this "feature" was added 2 releases ago , hunting down imaginary problems with my network
is a poor use of my time

 

[JBravo]

Well, my PC was actually ON but the QNAP was idle. I started MP, and MP was started before the QNAP was fully up and running.

If I were you I would double check the playlists. From your logs;

2011-12-16 20:17:17.320312 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: GUIMusicPlaylist: Loading default playlist default.m3u
2011-12-16 20:17:17.322265 [Info.][(6)]: Playlist: Skipping non-existing Playlist file: C:\Users\ss.pc7\Documents\My Playlists\default.m3u
..
loong wait
..
2011-12-16 20:17:53.320312 [Info.][MPMain(1)]: GUIMusicPlaylist: Default Playlist loaded

From my logs loading of playlist take about 2s. Don't know what MP is doing if the default playlist can't be loaded...

 

[shadowze]

Thanks for the info , I will check this later on when I get home from work

 

[shadowze]

Nope , changed location to valid folder

Media portal is still waiting on the shared folders being available