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Samsung PC Share Manager taking hours to update

Dec 14, 2008 10:04AM PST

Hi, I am new to the forum - just joined after trying to find a solution to the problems I am having!!

I have just setup a Samsung LA46A950 LCD and and extremely pleased with it. Have used a USB drive to play music through the sound system etc. Windows Media center on wife's Laptop works Ok when it is connected directly via HDMI or DVI to TV. Display is amazing.

I have hit a wall installing the PC Share manager on my networked laptop. I installed version 1.2 that came with the TV. When I installed it I had my WD 500G external HDD attached - the software took several hours to fully install - I assumed it was reading the external drive as well. I found the 1.4.2 update and installed it (over the 1.2?) When asked to reboot, the computer would not restart, (froze on the first screen with the windows logo) Finally restarted in safe mode and went to a restore point prior to the install.

Deleted the directory SAMSUNG(2) from programs directory after checking it was not in the Add/remove programs.

Disconnected the External drive and reinstalled the version 1.4.2

It again took hours to install and when I tried to change the directory so that only the photos directory was displayed it froze totally - ie no progress after an over night session!

Does the software normally take such HUGE times to scan the disk (or what ever it is doing) ????

My laptop is a Toshiba Tecra A7 - Intel T2300 @ 1.66Ghz with 1 GB RAM
Hdd is only 60GB with 41GB used. Running Win XP SP3. Using Norton IS 2009 - it seems good compared with previous versions I have tried !

When the display says "updating ??" (can't fully remeber), Task Manager shows that Wiselinkpro.exe is using just under 50% of the CPU time - ie hogging one core when the Share Manager appears to be frozen - little or no HDD activity !? I let it go like this for an hour or two before "killing it"! Starting it again WiselinkPro.exe is not using CPU time but the I/O Read Bytes is 5,157,774,203!

Of course the TV cannot even see the PC at all !! But this is probably another issue (network?) I can ping the TV and see all other PCs and can see the Windows Home Server as a UPnP device - should I be able to see the TV in My Network Places??

I have the TV on fixed IP 192.168.2.21 My routers are 192.168.2.1 (Internet gateway) and 192.168.2.2 (lounge room sharing & wireless) WHS is on 192.168.2.5 and the PC start DHCP from 192.168.2.100

TV CAN access the internet to show weather, stocks and news from Yahoo. Using Cat 5 cable connection only (no wireless for TV or PCs at the moment)

I am not game to try installing Share Manager on my main PC as it has 3 x 500GB drives - going by my laptop's results it will take the rest of the week to install!! ?? (Maybe I will try an old unsed PC with a fresh Win XP install and see if that works!)

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Now I'm embarrased !!
Dec 14, 2008 3:17PM PST

Well after the post I gave it another go and tried to set it to a directory with just a single file in it!

I went away (& mowed the lawn) and when I came back the "Please wait while updating changes on PC" had actually finished !!

Tried the TV and the single music "mp3" file played !!!! Happy

I added extra files, more music and then some photos so that I now have a total of about 25 files. All works Ok now. Still trying to get video AVI working ... Setting the changed state only takes a few seconds now...

It appears that the software scanned the whole system for some reason or at least the "My Documents" folder. Admittedly, there are 16,000 files in there (24GB) and includes my full iTunes directory.

Maybe it would be best to create a blank directory and only add a few files at a time - it took all night first time around and the WHS backup may have "killed it" I am now thinking.

Anyway just thought I would let you know that it is now working.

From another post I saw, it looks like I will not be able to run the software on my WHS as it is based on Server 2003 and apparently the latest software does not support this?? As the other person said, it would be much better to be able to have it on a machine that does not get turned off.

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PC Share
Dec 14, 2008 3:38PM PST

Stingray_15b,

Welcome to the forum - I'm glad to see you got it working. Sorry it took some trouble to get there.

I've listed from the manual a list of files that PC Share (and WiseLink) will support. It may be possible that not all your video and audio files will be supported. Some that aren't listed may actually work, however, this is the list of things we know SHOULD work.

http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp60/samsung_hd_tech/Page82.jpg

The resolution, audio and codecs all must be lined up for the video and audio files. I say that because you mentioned that you have a lot of music files from iTunes, and those aren't always in mp3 format.

I hope this information is useful.

--HDTech

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File formats for PC Share and WiseLink
Dec 16, 2008 12:56PM PST

Thanks for the link.

I have been trying AVS Video Converter with some success.
The video from my Canon S1 IS digital camera will not play "as is"

I found a number of video types that play Ok.
One option that I also tried was cropping the 4:3 that comes from the camera to 16:9 wide screen.

This worked better than I expected and made the resulting clip look bigger on the screen.

Ray