Thu, 08/12/2010 - 13:50 - rufrothy
How to Setup
So I install PS3 media server. I drag a folder with a 50+ BD rips mostly .ts and .m2ts and occasional lower bit rate mkv. with a minute my PC is chugging away running several TSmuxer processes and then consumes all free disk space (about 35g) on the local PC drive and obsviously nothing works after that...
What is PS3 media server doing?
How do I keep it from trying to consume all my disk space on my OS partition.
Sean
OK so I downloaded the latest PS3 media server and added a single directory to it that contains a single bd rip in .ts format. This rip is a valid file and plays on all my other streamers and has been taken straight off bd disc.
ps3 media server has a tsmuxer process running and is consuming all the HD space on my OS parition.
What is this doing and how do I stop it. I dont understand why its transcoding or doing anything to a file that is natively supported on the target platform.
I have terabytes of data on my NAS and it cannot be expected that I have enough local storage to be transcoding these files.
right now this software fills up the HD and crashes my PC.
Please advise as to how to fix this....
Sean
Dear Sean,
Now we understand the issue :-) . The partition containing your media items is much larger than your OS partition. Since the current version of PS3MS uses OS partition to store temporary files, it is running out of temporary storage space causing the system to hang.
The upcoming release (expected in about a week) will use the largest drive/partition in the system for temporary storage. This should solve this problem.
I have a real problem that guys are not answering my question. Why is it transcoding at all?
What is going to happen when I point PS3 MS to my NAS that has 14TB of DVD and blu ray rips?
is it going to spend the next year trying to transcode this stuff.
your previous post in august indicated this release should be out by now?
how do we contact support?
I would like to get a refund.
Sean
Dear Sean,
Your payment has been refunded.
We have tried to understand the issue you have encountered and answered to the best of our knowledge. We first believed that the problem was caused by PMS not deleting the temporary files except when it exits. We solved that problem in the last release on August 14. Clearly that did not solve your problem.
Now we understand that the partition where Windows resides does not contain as much empty space that may be needed for analyzing the media. This part will be fixed in the upcoming release in about a week.
PMS needs to analyze the videos to know how best to play that video on your player. It typically takes 2-3 minutes per movie and only seconds for small videos. Of course, the larger are the number of movies, the longer it would take.
Hope it answers your questions.
It turns out that we don't need to keep the analysis data. The next version of PS3MS (expected in a week) will delete this data immediately after finishing analysis. Thanks for pointing it out to us.
Sean,
It is analyzing different media files. Once it has stopped chugging, you can shut down PS3MS and the those temp files will be deleted. You can also delete them by deleting content of the temp folder that is listed in debug.log file located in the data directory (http://www.rayinblu.com/how#folders).
Once media is analyzed, it would not need to be analyzed again unless you clear the database and delete .blu files. Therefore, when you restart PS3MS, it would not do the same media items again.