movies from network drive pause momentarily

[hedly]

Hey all,
I've got Sage7 on a windows 7 machine. Haven't changed anything (well, except for having to do a fresh reinstall of the system a little bit ago).

Anyway, a couple days ago we noticed that movies from our server (both DVD and blu-rays) pause for about a half second every 30 seconds or so. The audio doesn't seem to hesitate, just the video.

I saw a post about maybe it was windows defender, so I excluded the Sage directory, but that didn't seem to stop it.

Any ideas?

[NetworkGuy]

I play shows from a NAS all of the time. It depends a lot on your network path to the drive.

For example my NAS is located directly next to my SageTV server. The NAS, SageTV and HDHomeRun tuners are all on a separate switch. And I have never had a problem.

What type of Network Drive are you using? What is the network path?

[Fuzzy]

It could also be signs of a drive failing, and it has to reread a few times to get the data without error.

[hedly]

@NetworkGuy: Network is pretty simple. Server and computer both have gigabit cards. between them is a single D-Link gigabit switch. Cable run from server to switch is maybe 2 ft. From switch to media computer the cable is maybe 20-30ft of cable winding its way through the wall.

@ Fuzzy: Yeah, I had thought of a hard drive flaking out.

It's a new phenomena. No changes to the network. I was thinking maybe:
1: Bad network driver (after a windows update or something)
2: Bad video driver (again, maybe after an update)
3: hard drive going bad

One more update. After I tried messing with windows defender by excluding the SageTV folder, I also excluded sagetv.exe from real time monitoring. After that the Blu-rays stopped hesitating.

Ahhh, but the Blu-rays are actually on a different hard drive than the DVDs. I've got to attach a monitor, mouse and kbd to it to update it to win10. Maybe when it POSTs I'll see a SAFE error.

If anyone has any other ideas, please feel free to chime in. I'll post an update after more troubleshooting.

[NetworkGuy]

Originally Posted by hedly

@NetworkGuy: Network is pretty simple. Server and computer both have gigabit cards. between them is a single D-Link gigabit switch.

Have you tried monitoring CPU and Network on the server while you are having the problem? Could be another program / service that is using the CPU cycles or the bandwidth.