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[AustinBike]

I have a home server that has been running XP MCE and MC 12 (latest version). Never really had any problem with the Tivo server.

This week I moved to Vista.  Actually, I started with a fresh drive, loaded Vista, loaded all of the exact same programs that I had on the XP hard drive (except office 2007 instead of office 2000).

When I run it with Vista, the songs play but hang periodically. Typically for 20-30 seconds, once or twice a song.  If I unplug the vista drive and plug the XP drive in, it works fine.

The music all sits on a dlink NAS with a gigabit connection.

If I play media center on the vista desktop, it works fine, never an issue.  It is only the tivo server and vista that has the problems.  When I look at the tivo server log, I don't see any errors. 

Tried turning off tivo desktop as well, no impact (tivo desktop is running on the XP drive with no issue).

Tried forcing the port to 80 and 8079 - no impact.

Thoughts?

[JimH]

Vista has some extra security features.  It's probably related.

A virus checker that is set to check every file every time it's accessed might do what you describe.  We've seen that before.

Try lower bitrate files, just to see if it's related to file size.

Try turning off Vista security (to test).

[AustinBike]

pretty sure that all of the vista security is turned off.  I'll check it out this afternoon and report back.

It was choking on some 128b files as well.

[AustinBike]

Went in and turned off the 7351 different services that load with windows that I don't need.  Between that and shutting down most of the vista security, it now seems to be working fine.

One of those things solved it, I don't have the patience to learn which one it was.

[AustinBike]

spoke too soon.  Vista playback is having long gaps in playback.

[JimH]

Is Vista up to date?  MS had some similar problems with slow file transfers initially.  I think this was fixed.

Try a google search on similar problems.

[AustinBike]

OK, this is getting weird.

It was gapping out on one tivo and not the other.

I rebooted the server and now it seems to be working on both.  There was some MSFT patch that was installed when I rebooted.  As well I received errors that windows defender could not load (I switched the service to manual).  Hopefully one of the two of those was the problem.

[PPatla]

Is it related to TCP/IP 6.0?

[AustinBike]

nope, I turned that off and updated to the latest version.  Neither helped me out.