Shared recorded TV

[Doddsie]

Hi all

could someone point me in the right direction please.

2 media centres... recording done on one machine only....recorded TV shared but is very slow to refresh new recordings (8hrs+).

can I manualy refresh or edit reg to improve or even jump in on current recordings

Thanks as always

Doddsie

[cncb]

I am wondering about this too. What has kept me from using WMC in the past is the longstanding bug where the metadata for shared recorded tv on a network watched folder is often unavailable requiring you to remove and re-add the shares to see the metadata (this is discussed here: http://experts.windows.com/frms/windows ... ageIndex=1).

How are people getting around this issue?

[cncb]

Can anyone help?

[barnabas1969]

Media Center was never intended to be used with shared recorded TV. Many have success with this, but if you want to use Media Center as intended, then you will need to use an extender for Windows Media Center.

You can buy any XBox360, HP X280N, Linksys DMA-2100, Linksys DMA-2200 right now. You can find the HP and Linksys extenders on e-bay and Amazon. The XBox360 can be bought new or used.

If you wait until December, the Ceton Echo will be available too.

If you live in Europe, your choice is limited to the XBox360 for now due to the way TV is encoded in Europe. The Ceton Echo is said to handle that type of encoding too, but I don't know when the Echo will be available in Europe.

[cncb]

I am holding out hope for the Ceton extender but until then I will be using my PCs and was wondering if anyone had been able to get around the shared recording issue I described above.

[wally007]

I hope there is a work around for this as well.
I'm going to try Recorded TV HD Addin and see if it improves things because as things are right now its very sucky solution

[barnabas1969]

I remember reading a thread where someone had figured out a way to run a scheduled task that forced Media Center to rebuild the Recorded TV database. I don't remember if it was here or on experts.windows.com and I can't find it. I thought I had bookmarked it, but apparently I didn't. A google search didn't turn up what I was looking for either.

[wally007]

If you find it, please let us know.

In the meantime, I've installed and played around with Recorded TV HD Addin and I think I'm going to buy it.
I wish the list view would be improved, but library is refreshed every 5 minutes, developer is working on solution that would force library refresh everytime you enter the Recorded TV HD Addin and most of all developer answered my email in super quick & friendly fashion.

It has amazing amount of features and options. Sort By, favorites, 3 or 4 themes etc etc ....

[epete]

Are you talking about the script described on Page 6 here?

http://experts.windows.com/frms/windows ... ageIndex=6

Direct Link to teh script here: https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=9061c1e4 ... E1%2114767

[wally007]

thanks for posting but after reading readme.txt it has quite a few drawback:

First you have to run it in interval. ( so I'd schedule it to run every 15-30 minutes ). So no on demand refresh.
Second you have to close media center to run it ? ( per readme )
Third takes 2 minutes and 15 seconds to update Recording location of 470 files. (per readme)

[cncb]

I'm going to try Recorded TV HD Addin and see if it improves things

Did you try this and did it help at all?

[wally007]

Well yes and no.

It will not show 'in progress' recordings but once they are recorded, proper metadata is shown.
Basicly its doing what MCEFileMover script would ( ie. show recordings once they are complete )

[barnabas1969]

The script epete linked is exactly what I was talking about.

I've tried Recorded TV HD. My interest was for the improved interface, not for the reasons being discussed here. It has a beautiful interface, and I liked the functionality. I would have bought it if it didn't have one fatal flaw: It made my HTPC unstable. While running RTVHD, I got BSOD's and several other odd behaviors on a fairly regular basis. The developer is very friendly and helpful. He thought it might be caused because I have 700+ recordings.

I'm not patient enough to deal with BSOD's and such while the dev is trying to diagnose the problem. My Media Center PC is the ONLY source for TV in my entire household. I can't have it crashing all the time... so I un-installed RTVHD and the problems went away.

[mini__me]

With Windows 8 and MC out for that has anyone tried to see if the problem still exists running that? And if so, seeing as we all get 90 days free support from MS with Windows 8 is it worth everyone ringing and logging a call to see if they will fix it?

[cncb]

With Windows 8 and MC out for that has anyone tried to see if the problem still exists running that?

I was also wondering about this. I would guess it is the same since there apparently are no changes to WMC but has anyone tried it?

[3rob3]

So I know this is an old issue, but wondering if anyone ever figured this out? The script above doesn't seem to work for me.

[cncb]

The only method I found to be reliable was to use the Recorded TV HD addon on each PC watching the shared folder.