S-L-O-W thumbnails from server

GlenR · **28th December 2007, 07:08 PM**

I have finally got around to pointing my VMC to my WHS box for music, pics & video. I have used the usual trick of putting shortcuts to the various folders in the users\public\video folder and so on. VMC picks everything up but building the thumbnails is very slow from the server. I have a couple of video folders with about 200 short videos in each and the system almost hangs trying to display thumbnails. Even when the thumbnails are all generated, scrolling through them can cause the machine to freeze for a while. Never had this problem with the videos hosted on the internal drive.

The WHS and VMC are connected on a gigabit LAN, and videos seem to play fine, it's just the sloooooooow process of getting thumbnails.

I have tried using both drive mappings and UNC names for the shortcuts with the same result. Anyone with any hints?

Music browses fine from the server and pics are a little slow to generate thumnails, but not as bad as videos.

GlenR · **29th December 2007, 12:54 PM**

Anybody?

Bueller... Bueller...

dgaust · **29th December 2007, 01:34 PM**

It's a known issue with Vista. There have been a few posts about it over the past couple of months.

There has been some indication that Vista SP1 fixes it, or at least speeds it up but it's nothing I've been able to test since I installed it.

GlenR · **29th December 2007, 02:55 PM**

Oh, this is part of the file transfer issue with Vista is it? I thought that only affected file copy/move not this. That may explain it then. Damned annoying!

dgaust · **29th December 2007, 03:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by GlenR

Oh, this is part of the file transfer issue with Vista is it? I thought that only affected file copy/move not this. That may explain it then. Damned annoying!

It is annoying, as is the thumbnail view anyway. I'd recommend using Video Browser for your video/tv show series.

If you combine it with the ruby script that downloads the series info for TV shows from thetvdb.com and the Collection Manager from the MyMovies package, you have a light weight option of browsing your collection that's much better than Vista's standard.

vlad · **29th December 2007, 07:26 PM**

GlenR,
That was main reason why I have gone back to XP MCE.
I have tried everything people here suggested and had some improvements but after couple of days it was back to usual slow.
Later it has developed the issue when you click on video file and it would take 2-5 min to start.

GlenR · **29th December 2007, 09:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by dgaust

I'd recommend using Video Browser for your video/tv show series.

Thought I'd give this a try. It installed OK and the blog says it just resolves your shortcuts but Video Browser doesn't show any of my videos.

I have shportcuts to a number of folders on my server containing avis in the users\public\public videos folder. Is ther something else I need to do?

dgaust · **29th December 2007, 09:28 PM**

Try your user video folder instead of the public one.

GlenR · **29th December 2007, 11:58 PM**

Yep user folder worked.

The app doesn't do what I need. I have a folder of music video clips and I generate a playlist for them, but this app doesn't show the asx file, so that's no good to me. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Blackdog · **30th December 2007, 07:44 AM**

Hi Glenr i have the same issue and have had since the beta testing. As per the suggestions i also tried to use them but same old thing came back. Its definitely a Vista issue as my MCE2005 box is fine to WHS. From what i have read around the traps looks like Vista upcoming sp1 should fix these issue's cross fingers anyway.