Windows Home Server " Video LAG"

[Edd-MJE]

I have setup Windows Home Server this server has been running very well for 90 days or so yet it has problems with video “LAG” everywhere I search finding no help

This server is up-to-date as of today 05-05-2010 all the power pack3 everything including Perfect Disk10

No mod’s to software is on Intel motherboard with 3 gig of ram some videos play well from windows 7 machine others and most will lag tear shutter to freeze my computers both workstations are Windows 7 ultimate and premium.

I do not care for remote to viva internet only for local in home use.

This has become to the point of no functional in reality with the lag on playing video’s MP3 all play well every option works great only when playing movies that I store on the server is bad news.

The same movie if I download to the local computer no problems playing this is not correct is there any place on line to help address this issue other that saying do CHCKDSK drives all check good all new hardware drivers up-to date .most the movies are *.avi even the *.vob files will lock up or tear drop and shutter. Please help.

[DigeratiPrime]

What is the link speed to your computers? For example I have a gigabit switch and gigabit nics in my computers so it can handle the bitrate to stream video.

[adeshaies]

Hi, I have a Window Home Server 2011 NAS at home where I put all of my movies and videos. I have another computer that I use Windows Media Center (on a WIndows 7-64 bits edition) on it where I point my librairies onto the NAS and that I connect to my HDTV. I have a gigabit router where I connect both devices. I ran into issues when I was viewing videos and HD videos. I was having video lags or it was regularly intermittently be lagging. So I started the Task Manager - looking at the networking performance. I did a file copy test. I got around 450 megabits (45%) substained result. So I tested it with a movie via The Media Center application. The Task Manager reported 0 to 2.5% usage having unregular network traffic, going up and down every second or so, and having lags, as usual.

I fixed the issue by doing this : (lag issue resolved reading videos and movies on shared drive)

The solution to this is to elevate to "Real-Time" the priority of the "Server" process on the NAS (or on the computer where the videos and movies are stored).

In the Task Manager, under Service tab, right-click on the "Server" process and choose "Go to process".

You will redirected on the "Process" tab directly on the specific process of the "Server".

Right-Click on it and choose "Set Priority", set it to Real-Time.

Hope this will help people from this lag issue.

I don't know if this impact the "Streaming" to an Xbox, but will try.

I did post this because I could not find any solution on the web for my problem and I found the solution by myself.