theburnsta
2009-05-19, 20:17
Hi Guys,
I'm still relatively new at this xbmc stuff, but LOVE it so far.
My aim is to have XBMC work without a keyboard and mouse, and after plenty of problems (none i havent been able to find a solution to on these boards), i've got one left which i need some help on.
Originally i thought i had it set up perfect, XBMC loads in full screen when windows loads, and all my media was pulled from my server using the smb share paths. However i then had the issue of playback stopping randomly and i have gathered this is a SMB share issue and have since mapped my media files to drive Y:/
This solved that problem (atleast i think it has, havent had and random stops since) however it unearthed a new problem.
When XBMC loads on the windows boot, i've noticed that i cant play anything off the y:/ drive, and when i search through my sources y:/ just isn't there. When i exit xbmc and go into windows explorer, it has mapped fine. Reloading xbmc shows that the drive is now visible.
Now i'm guessing that xbmc is loading before windows has a chance to map the drive on startup, but really i'm guessing. Any information regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated.
if i am right is there a way to make xbmc load after windows gets a chance to map the drive. or is there a way to have xbmc rescan the sources via some kind of plugin or script.
Thanks heaps guys
I'm still relatively new at this xbmc stuff, but LOVE it so far.
My aim is to have XBMC work without a keyboard and mouse, and after plenty of problems (none i havent been able to find a solution to on these boards), i've got one left which i need some help on.
Originally i thought i had it set up perfect, XBMC loads in full screen when windows loads, and all my media was pulled from my server using the smb share paths. However i then had the issue of playback stopping randomly and i have gathered this is a SMB share issue and have since mapped my media files to drive Y:/
This solved that problem (atleast i think it has, havent had and random stops since) however it unearthed a new problem.
When XBMC loads on the windows boot, i've noticed that i cant play anything off the y:/ drive, and when i search through my sources y:/ just isn't there. When i exit xbmc and go into windows explorer, it has mapped fine. Reloading xbmc shows that the drive is now visible.
Now i'm guessing that xbmc is loading before windows has a chance to map the drive on startup, but really i'm guessing. Any information regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated.
if i am right is there a way to make xbmc load after windows gets a chance to map the drive. or is there a way to have xbmc rescan the sources via some kind of plugin or script.
Thanks heaps guys