March 30, 200917 yr Since I rarely listen to MP3's, preferring my FLAC collection (which I use J. River Media Center) I hadn't noticed that when I have WMP up the unRAID server will pause breifly on any of the 3 computers connected to it. 2 of the computers run XP Home, the other runs XP Media Center 2005 (I'm running 4.4.2). Anyone else experience this?
March 30, 200917 yr Can you provide more detail as to what you are doing, and what you are seeing, on each machine?
March 30, 200917 yr Author Can you provide more detail as to what you are doing, and what you are seeing, on each machine? Not sure what you are wanting..... I just notice when WMP is loaded I get hesitation/slight pausing. If it is not loaded I don't get any of those symptoms. The wife uses WMC (XP 2005 on the 811n wireless) and I use Homecinema MPC and J. River Media Center on my HTPC and my workstation PC's (both running XP Home SP3 and hardwired). Both my PC's are 780G based boards (Gigabyte & MSI).
March 30, 200917 yr I know I am probably considered irritatingly meticulous when I'm trying to help with a problem, but I know from experience that assumptions are dangerous when troubleshooting, that the words a user may use to explain the problem are not necessarily understood the same way by others. So I always try to clarify any possible confusion I may have, and get as complete and factual a description as possible. It wasn't clear to me if you were talking about 'load times' or 'stutter in playback', and whether these were just a pause in loading WMP or continuous pauses, periodic or random, and whether these were simultaneous on the 3 machines or not. What was paused on the other machines? Were all 3 trying to playback the same thing or different things from the unRAID server, or just appeared slower in general system responsiveness, or still something else I haven't thought of? When you say 'briefly', how long is that, closer to a quarter second or 3 seconds or more? Is it always about the same amount? If during playback, is audio frozen? Does the cursor seem frozen for the same amount of time? On all 3 machines? I'm sorry, but I still don't feel that I understand what you are seeing or hearing.
March 30, 200917 yr Author I know I am probably considered irritatingly meticulous when I'm trying to help with a problem, but I know from experience that assumptions are dangerous when troubleshooting, that the words a user may use to explain the problem are not necessarily understood the same way by others. So I always try to clarify any possible confusion I may have, and get as complete and factual a description as possible. It wasn't clear to me if you were talking about 'load times' or 'stutter in playback', and whether these were just a pause in loading WMP or continuous pauses, periodic or random, and whether these were simultaneous on the 3 machines or not. What was paused on the other machines? Were all 3 trying to playback the same thing or different things from the unRAID server, or just appeared slower in general system responsiveness, or still something else I haven't thought of? When you say 'briefly', how long is that, closer to a quarter second or 3 seconds or more? Is it always about the same amount? If during playback, is audio frozen? Does the cursor seem frozen for the same amount of time? On all 3 machines? I'm sorry, but I still don't feel that I understand what you are seeing or hearing. No problem, I appreciate yours and everyone one else's help on this board. The pauses I'm experiencing are during playback of MP3's in WMP or whenever WMP is loaded and I attempt to watch video via Homecinema or FLACs via J. River Media Center. If WMP is not loaded on any computer everything works great but if it is loaded on one of the computers I get brief pauses (a second or 2) which is annoying. Cursor does not seem frozen during the pauses.
March 31, 200917 yr I haven't heard anything like this myself, but perhaps others can help. If it were my system, I would try to isolate the resource that is being 'starved', by running the Task Manager (with Update Speed set to Low) and watch to see if either CPU or network traffic spike at the same time as your pauses, on any or all of the machines.
March 31, 200917 yr This sounds somewhat like this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3237.0 except in practice when WMP is loading. Are the stutters for a brief moment or continuous?
March 31, 200917 yr Author This sounds somewhat like this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3237.0 except in practice when WMP is loading. Are the stutters for a brief moment or continuous? Happens every 30 to 45 seconds for a second or 2.
March 31, 200917 yr Movies stutter when the split level is set such that different files of a movie are on different disks. If accessing a file requires a disk spin up, the move stutters. Could this be the equivalent in the music world?
March 31, 200917 yr I seem to remember reading somewhere that when 'media' is being played on windows, it throttles the network connection...? Is it the mp3s that are pausing, or something else you are doing at the same time?
March 31, 200917 yr Author I seem to remember reading somewhere that when 'media' is being played on windows, it throttles the network connection...? Is it the mp3s that are pausing, or something else you are doing at the same time? Even if just WMP is the only app running anywhere the MP3's will pause. If WMP is loaded on any of the computers other apps will pause as well with data coming from the unRAID server.
March 31, 200917 yr Have you had a chance yet to try the Task Manager? You should be looking not only for what is spiking simultaneously with the pauses, but if there is an increase in network traffic as soon as WMP is started.
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