Media scanning

[paaland]

Running Wild Media Server on a HP MediaSmart 475ex Windows Home Server. It's only got a single core Sempron CPU running at 1.8 GHz. But I have 2GB ram. Normal streaming works just fine, even 1280p mkv's barely register on the task manager. My BD390 supports most formats so transcoding is not normally required. But (why is there always a but , I've set WMS to automatically scan folders on changes so that it will detect new media being added to the server.

But any change in the folder structure seems to trigger a full rescan of all folders. If I add a new movie, both movies, music and pictures are rescanned. This takes several minutes with 100% CPU load effectively killing any streaming going on at that moment. A full rescan should not really be neccesary should it? You should be able to pick up which file(s) have been added, removed or modified so only those specific files should be scanned.

[Eugene]

Running Wild Media Server on a HP MediaSmart 475ex Windows Home Server. It's only got a single core Sempron CPU running at 1.8 GHz. But I have 2GB ram. Normal streaming works just fine, even 1280p mkv's barely register on the task manager. My BD390 supports most formats so transcoding is not normally required. But (why is there always a but , I've set WMS to automatically scan folders on changes so that it will detect new media being added to the server.

But any change in the folder structure seems to trigger a full rescan of all folders. If I add a new movie, both movies, music and pictures are rescanned. This takes several minutes with 100% CPU load effectively killing any streaming going on at that moment. A full rescan should not really be neccesary should it? You should be able to pick up which file(s) have been added, removed or modified so only those specific files should be scanned.

You can enable the server as a service Windows, in this case the scanned directory of media resources, which has changed. In future versions I made a change to a more optimal performance.