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nostra:
PVD does indeed check if media is available for playing every time you select a movie. It should work OK in most cases, but AFAIK there are some general problems with NAS. Most probably you need to access the files from windows explorer first, before they will be available for PVD.

Aslena:
ok so I have actually fixed the issue without running cables and just thought I'd let you all know what I did in case anyone else needed to know.

From what nostra said about NAS having issues sometimes I got to looking and it seems that when the laptops would boot up they would try to connect to the NAS before the wireless network was actually finished connecting which caused it to not be able to see the share and not have the play button for me.

I fixed the problem by making a .bat file with the following in it to start PVD with instead of the default icon. Basically it just re-adds the network share to my computer again anytime I start PVD so that everything shows up properly.

net use x: \\FREENAS\share
Start "" /MAX "C:\Program Files (x86)\Personal Video Database\viddb.exe"

Explination of what it does:
FIRST LINE
net use  -  the command to map a network drive in windows
X: -  The Drive Letter I use for the share
\\FreeNAS\share  - The network path to the share where my movies are

SECOND LINE
Start  -  tells windows to start a program
''"   -  anything inside the quotes would be a title for the program being opened in this case it is unused but has to be there
/MAX  -  tells it to start the program maximized
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Personal Video Database\viddb.exe"  -  the path that I have PVD installed to

Thanks to everyone for your help :)

rick.ca:
Thanks for the report.

nostra:
Great idea with the bat file. It will certainly be very helpful for other users with NAS.

lungnut:

--- Quote from: nostra on December 16, 2010, 12:04:44 am ---PVD does indeed check if media is available for playing every time you select a movie. It should work OK in most cases, but AFAIK there are some general problems with NAS. Most probably you need to access the files from windows explorer first, before they will be available for PVD.

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(Sorry for hijacking the thread)

Is there any way to disable this "check for media availability" when selecting a movie? My problem is that I have my movies stored across 12 hard drives in my server box and PVD is waking up these drives when it checks to see if the media is online. This causes two problems: 1) There is a delay of several seconds within PVD as the hard drive wakes up, and 2) The whole point of having my drives go to sleep when not being used is compromised by PVD unnecessarily waking them up. I would like if I could have it access the media file only if I select "play".

Thanks...

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