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Delayed play with NAS HDD
Mr ChriZ:
Like I said in your other thread, MC once loaded for the most part will be running from memory so a portable installation is very unlikely to make any difference.
Have you tried watching for CPU spikes in other processes when MC goes to play these files? You may find some other security app is getting busy in there.
(Have you tried disabling Windows Defender?)
JimH:
--- Quote from: blindjim on February 07, 2009, 05:41:04 am ---Hi Jim
Thanks for the insights.... UAC is OFF. Bothersome, ineffective annoyance that it is... has been off since I found out where to disengage it.
Uninstalling the anti virus app is not an option. Not with a PC. I'd not wish to save the barn and lose the ranch.
--- End quote ---
Disconnect from the Internet and other PCs if necessary. Just to test. It's the only way to be certain.
--- Quote ---I would re-itterate, gaining the input of step by step instructions for a PORTABLE INSTALL, (if thoughts are it is a solution) would be sincerely appreciated.
--- End quote ---
A portable install would not be helpful. It's not the intended use.
strebormj:
blindjim:
Try disabling Vista's firewall, just to get an accurate comparison (WMP vs MC).
As far as media servers go, some NAS products actually host a media server that streams your files, rather than just providing SMB access to them like the NAS itself does.
blindjim:
hello all...
I'm Not quite there yet, but realizing some improvements....
1 I did the Direct show ‘base’ filter installation, following the notes I saved from having done it on the XP Pro desktop. Seemed to go fluently on Vista as well. Now m4a files (apple lossless) will play
2 I’m not too sure if I did the ‘AUTO TUNE DISABLE’ properly though… AS the instructions I found weren’t very revealing to me.
What I did was… Point to START > RUN > ‘netsh’ (and got a DOS window?), then I typed into that window right after the “>”netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
So if that’s how to do it … it’s done.
Why I said "... some improvements" is that I’m experiencing no further lag times or delays, with m4a files played from the NAS drive, in MC 12.0.534 now, with the Vista 32 SP2 Laptop via wireless connection. Yayyy.
BTW, With or without the antivirus checker running.
3 I’M STILL NOT able to play “m4p” files however.
Trying to play m4p files, I receive a window which says I need to authorize this PC…. I follow that process, opening itunes, entering user name and pswd. Yet nothing happens… for a very long time… (if at all) and then maybe it will play … maybe not…
Selecting another likewise file… THE EXACT SAME INFO WINDOW POPS UP AND I MUST THEN REPEAT THE PROCESS again.
So the delays when playing everything but m4p (protected/purchased) files seem to have disappeared, and only these protected files will NOT play… or will NOT RESPOND QUICKLY LIKE THE REST OF THE AUDIO FILES and an authorization for each must be input… EVERYTIME.
Installing and configuring the DS plug in, I saw no “m4p” on the list to check it’s box for DS decoding.
Would the m4p file be represented other than as “m4p” in that list?
I am more than in everyone’s debt for the efforts thus far with this event and thank each sincerely… THEN THIS... SUPER.
ANY ideas about getting around the m4p’s ?
Be well, Jim
Alex B:
m4p files from the iTunes store are different. The files are protected by Apple's proprietary DRM code. MC has been able to play m4p files by using the QuickTime decoding method when QuickTime is installed and the files are properly registered on the used PC with iTunes. DirectShow decoding has never been an option for the DRM protected m4p files. The DirectShow filters do not have any means to access Apple's protection system.
Can you play the m4p files with iTunes on the same PC? If that works then you may be able to pay them also with MC.
It is also possible that Apple has changed the protection system to exclude external players that use QuickTime, but I have not seen anything like that reported here. Personally I have never bought any DRM protected files.
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