»X« Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 I rarely use Media Center on both my PC and Xbox. Last time I tried it was about 2 years ago. But today I thought I would try to watch some movies on my hard drive on my Pc on my xbox. Setup was easy enough (Using Win7) and on my PC I added all my media folders and I could play music and watch movies fine. But when It came to the Xbox it was awful. Loading times for media center was about 2 minutes and even when it loads there is a severe lag of about 7 seconds for every command. I move the left stick up and I have to wait 7 seconds for the menu to react. And it never speeds up. In fact it gets worse sometimes as I can click the stick around and nothing happens, then about 10 seconds later I get this surge of activity. Its beyond painful. Im using Ethernet cables instead of wireless this time around. When I open movies, it comes up with a box saying "updating libraries". This will go on FOREVER. While typing this post it went from 9% to 10% complete. Why is it so slow?!?! Its maddening! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad_onion Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 It runs ok from my desktop. but I have the same problem as you when I try and do it from my netbook wirelessly, it runs ultra slow. however, it's easier to just run the videos from the video library, that way to you don't have to use media center at all. the only time I use media center is when I want to play a video that isn't supported by the xbox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 My XBOX runs media center pretty slow too. So I just avoid using it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
»X« Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 Its just so busted. I tried to just view videos on my xbox without loading WMC and that wanted me to activate my computer. So much googling and searching through settings, I changed my media streaming options to allow my xbox. I had to test the connection on my xbox to my PC. But guess what? It doing so it "forgot" that I had already connected WMC to it moments before and gave me a new 6 digit number to input in WMC on my PC. Now its searching my library AGAIN for files and no doubt make me wait another hour before thats done. Oh and by the way, it still says "contacting..." on my xbox, been like that for 10 minutes. Something so simple as trying to watch a film on my xbox which is less than a meter away from my PC is ending up wasting hours of my time just trying to figure it out, I feel sorry for the average Joe who has trouble with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mad_onion Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 well just forget media center for a minute. what's the problem when you try and play the videos through video library rather than through mediacenter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acnpt Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 On the Xbox WMC go to Tasks> Tune Network and run the test there. Also what are the specs of the computer you are using to run media center?? When I use my desktop, and a wired connection xbox wmc works fine. Its if I use my netbook or a wireless connection that I get problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unimatrix Xero Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 ive just been using it myself and its ok for me :) just need to buy a remote now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo003 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 I have wired connection and with the lasted update and codec (Core 2 duo pc) it's running fine. Maybe it the connection as acnpt said check network setting and connection. I really don't recommend watching it on wireless network, I just don't like hickups which watching a video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
»X« Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 well just forget media center for a minute. what's the problem when you try and play the videos through video library rather than through mediacenter? It asks me to find a computer, mine isnt listed. I go to the website www.xbox.com/pcsetup and it gives me various instructions which don't match Windows 7. But I have all the settings I can find on the right options. Stream my pictures, music and video to all devices on my home network: Check Advanced media streaming options, Xbox360: Allowed Windows Media Player set to stream all media: Check On the Xbox WMC go to Tasks> Tune Network and run the test there.Also what are the specs of the computer you are using to run media center?? When I use my desktop, and a wired connection xbox wmc works fine. Its if I use my netbook or a wireless connection that I get problems. Just running that now, (after 15 minutes of navigating to the menu option). It says poor network performance. There is alot of activity on the network. ( I've hardly seen my router light flash). I have the graph up and it is always in the red, it suggests to "reduce obstructions beween the computer and the extender". How? I think I have done all I can do. The only one thing I havent touched is my Netgear WPS wireless G router (the xbox is connected by ethernet to that and my PC is connected by ethernet cable also). But I don't know what settings I could change on there. Pc specs. AMD 6600 6gigs Memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiGhTfast Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 I thought this thread was about xbox 1 media centre which still owns btw (except for hd). On the 360 just use the video library it plays more formats unless you transcode with media centre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo003 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 I think you need to check your router settings, what router do you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
»X« Posted August 15, 2009 Author Share Posted August 15, 2009 I have a Netgear WNR2000 but I did swap it for my old Linksys WRT54GL running tomato and noticed no difference. It's mind boggling as to what the cause is. Why would a network problem cause menu actions to have a 7 second delay? It's unusable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aergan Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 Go into Xbox WMC, remove all folder shares under each library category. Restart Xbox WMC and add the folders again, go grab a cup of Tea and wait for it to complete indexing your media. It should now be a lot more usable than it used to be. I'd suggest doing this each time you alter your media structure, the "in the background" library discoverer seems to run constantly unless you let it complete a full index and goes nuts when Xbox WMC is trying to generate thumbnails for your media otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unimatrix Xero Posted August 19, 2009 Share Posted August 19, 2009 i used a wired connection but both PC and X360 and it works like a dream when i did a test all my bars where lit (good for HDTV) dont expect the same results from Wireless tech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead_Monkey Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Media center was reasonably fast on 360 under Vista, but it seems like the updates to 7 have caused some slowness when you have a lot of media (I've got 20k songs, nearly all ripped from my own CDs or live material). I haven't checked in with it again, I was hoping that leaving it overnight to "optimize" per the options menu might help. Shadow Complex is too compelling to be bothered with playing music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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