Slow loading times
#1
My xbmc has been acting strangely lately. It takes a really long time to get to my videos from the main menu. Also, whenever I open a dvd image, it takes forever and if remember correctly the playback in the dvd menus was a bit choppy. Currently I'm running the T3CH 2010-04-27 SVN rev29407 of xbmc.

A while ago I did change the usb hard drive attached to my desktop that stores all my movies to a larger one. But at first my setup was working like it did before, so I haven't got a clue why it's running so slow at the moment. I tried storing some movies on the desktop's own internal hard drive with the same results. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
#2
This is usually caused by an incompatible media database file - check the log file located in your XBMC folder for such errors.
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#3
Thanks, I tried having a look at the log file for errors and found a couple. Here's the full log:

18:36:13 M: 55791616 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
18:36:13 M: 55771136 NOTICE: Starting XBMC4Xbox. Built on Apr 27 2010 (SVN:29407, compiler 1310)
18:36:13 M: 55771136 NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: Q:\
18:36:13 M: 55771136 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: special://xbmc/userdata
18:36:13 M: 55771136 NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: Q:\
18:36:13 M: 55771136 NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: Z:\
18:36:13 M: 55771136 NOTICE: The executable running is: E:\Apps\XBMC\default.xbe
18:36:13 M: 55771136 NOTICE: Log File is located: Q:\xbmc.log
18:36:13 M: 55771136 NOTICE: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
18:36:13 M: 55771136 NOTICE: Unmapped drive T
18:36:13 M: 55771136 NOTICE: Mapping drive T to Harddisk0\Partition1\Apps\XBMC\userdata
18:36:13 M: 55771136 NOTICE: Setup DirectX
18:36:13 M: 55746560 NOTICE: Mapping drive C to Harddisk0\Partition2
18:36:13 M: 55746560 NOTICE: Mapping drive E to Harddisk0\Partition1
18:36:13 M: 55746560 NOTICE: Unmapped drive D
18:36:13 M: 55746560 NOTICE: Mapping drive D to Cdrom0
18:36:13 M: 55746560 NOTICE: Mapping drive F to Harddisk0\Partition6
18:36:13 M: 55746560 NOTICE: Mapping drive X to Harddisk0\Partition3
18:36:13 M: 55746560 NOTICE: Mapping drive Y to Harddisk0\Partition4
18:36:13 M: 55746560 NOTICE: Unmapped drive Z
18:36:13 M: 55746560 NOTICE: Mapping drive Z to Harddisk0\Partition5
18:36:13 M: 55746560 NOTICE: load settings...
18:36:13 M: 55746560 NOTICE: Mapping drive P to Harddisk0\Partition1\Apps\XBMC\userdata
18:36:13 M: 55746560 NOTICE: special://profile/ is mapped to: special://xbmc/userdata
18:36:13 M: 55746560 NOTICE: loading special://masterprofile/guisettings.xml
18:36:13 M: 55484416 NOTICE: Getting hardware information now...
18:36:13 M: 55484416 NOTICE: Checking resolution 10
18:36:13 M: 55484416 NOTICE: Setting autoresolution mode 1
18:36:13 M: 55484416 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://xbmc/system/playercorefactory.xml.
18:36:13 M: 55459840 NOTICE: Loaded playercorefactory configuration
18:36:13 M: 55439360 NOTICE: Loading player core factory settings from special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml.
18:36:13 M: 55439360 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/playercorefactory.xml does not exist. Skipping.
18:36:13 M: 55439360 NOTICE: No advancedsettings.xml to load (special://masterprofile/advancedsettings.xml)
18:36:13 M: 55439360 NOTICE: Default Video Player: mplayer
18:36:13 M: 55439360 NOTICE: Default Audio Player: paplayer
18:36:13 M: 55439360 NOTICE: Per AV pack settings are off
18:36:13 M: 55664640 NOTICE: special://xbmc/userdata/sources.xml
18:36:13 M: 47153152 ERROR: XML-Configuration doesn't contain expected map root element vkey2char
18:36:13 M: 47132672 ERROR: XML-Configuration doesn't contain expected map root element vkey2char_shift
18:36:13 M: 47132672 ERROR: XML-Configuration doesn't contain expected map root element vkey2char_ralt
18:36:14 M: 46100480 ERROR: Window Translator: Can't find window xlinkkai
18:36:25 M: 46215168 ERROR: DIRECTORY::CDirectory::Remove - Error removing Z:\weather\128x128\
18:36:25 M: 46235648 ERROR: DIRECTORY::CDirectory::Remove - Error removing Z:\weather\
18:36:25 M: 46235648 NOTICE: Network: Using DHCP IP settings
18:36:25 M: 45907968 NOTICE: Checking the Date!
18:36:25 M: 45907968 NOTICE: start dvd mediatype detection
18:36:25 M: 45842432 NOTICE: initializing playlistplayer
18:36:25 M: 45842432 NOTICE: DONE initializing playlistplayer
18:36:25 M: 45834240 NOTICE: load default skin:[PM3.HD]
18:36:27 M: 42422272 NOTICE: initialize done
18:36:27 M: 42401792 NOTICE: Running the application...
18:36:28 M: 31391744 NOTICE: start timeserver client
18:36:28 M: 31326208 NOTICE: XBFileZilla: Starting...
18:36:28 M: 31260672 NOTICE: ES: Starting event server
18:36:28 M: 30146560 NOTICE: ES: Starting UDP Event server on 0.0.0.0:9777
18:36:26 M: 29282304 NOTICE: UDP: Listening on port 9777

How could I solve the problem? Do you think that reinstalling the new tech rev of xbmc and starting with a fresh UserData folder would help?
#4
@eliastico
Use T3CH Upgrader script to download a new XBMC build (T3CH or SSHCS) into a separate folder so you can try it, and choose not to transfer your UserData. Pay attention to the script configuration settings.

http://xbmczone.com/plugin_details.asp?id=126
#5
Cerrtainly wouldn't hurt. You can put the new install in a different folder, if you want to preserve the old one for now - they shouldn't interfere with each other.
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#6
Thanks, tried the fresh install but unfortunately it didn't help.

But while I was at it, I noticed that when I unplug the network cable from the xbox the system starts running smoothly, without a glitch. So the problem has got something to do with the network? Any suggestions? Thanks again for all the help.
#7
I thought there was some change Arnova made on networking, the history is gone and I can't find it. I noticed in your setup you use DHCP, try setting a fixed IP / mask / dns / gateway, see if it helps.
#8
Thanks, I think were close to getting there. I tried setting a fixed static ip. I used these settings: IP: 10.0.0.4, Netmask: 255.255.255.0, Default gateway: 10.0.0.2, DNS server: 88.115.109.42.

But it's still laggy. I think that it starts loading really slowly when the system is downloading something from the internet such as the weather scripts and rss feeds. I Noticed that if I leave the DNS server space empty the system runs smoothly but then again the internet scripts won't work. I was able to get to my videos fast and access my shares when the DNS server was empty or wrong. I've never used a static ip before, so I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong.
#9
Maybe you should use your local DNS server, usually the router - which I asume in your case might be 10.0.0.2, rather than a remote DNS server (the local one caches request and might reply faster).

What you seem to have is a DNS server issue, I would check the settings on your gateway and you can easily check even on yoru PC how fast a DNS server replies using "nslookup server". If you want to try out different servers but without changing them in your settings, use like "nslookup http://www.microsoft.com 8.8.8.8" (see OpenDNS.org or http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/). You can see the DNS servers on your PC using "ipconfig /all" (Windows), if you think it works ok on your PC.

One other thing - you can continue using DHCP if you want, and you can pre-allocate the IPs to your computer on the network using MAC addresses (they are supposed to be unique per network devices). But unfortunately not all consumer routers / gateway allow DHCP reservations...

Choosing the right DNS server not only that it will allow you to access correctly all sites, but a fast DNS server can provide a considerable improvement to your internet experience.

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