Personal Video Database

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

Everything is showing the correct media lable of "Share" and all of the other file information is correct.

On my main pc all of the movies are always playable at any time, but on the laptops sometimes they are and sometimes they are grayed out and after 30 seconds up to a couple min it will turn green again and I can click it to play the video.

As far as I can tell other connections don't make a difference. I did a test a bit ago and I turned off PVD on my main pc (I usually leave it running all the time) and it didn't seem to matter either way. I also rarely have more than one of the laptops on at a time so that shouldn't be causing an issue.

I think I'll try hooking up one of the laptops via cable instead of wireless and see if that fixes the problem. If it does I'll just have to run some cables. I'm probably better off doing that anyway in the long run because of how much faster it is. I'll let you know if it does fix the problem.