Windows Maintenance while streaming

[paulsalter]

Hi,

Not sure if this is a windows issue or something Mezzmo could prevent happening

Not every time but sometimes when I am streaming, windows maintenance kicks in (auto defrag is the bad one), streaming files from my external drive this is no issue, but if I have anything local on my c drive this causes stuttering in the playback

If I move the mouse then it stops, and playback is fine until it resumes the maintenance again, usually after about 5 mins, is there anyway that Mezzmo can prevent maintenance running, I would have expected windows to see it is doing something and pause these tasks, but it seems as though if no mouse/keyboard activity is seen, then windows assumes the machine is idle so starts its maintenance tasks

I can solve this by making sure nothing is stored on the c drive (including transcoded files) but just wondering if anyway other than that to prevent this

Thanks

[Paul]

We'll investigate this further to see if Mezzmo server can prevent the maintenance task being triggered in Windows. In the meantime, you could disable automatic maintenance in Windows. See this link - http://superuser.com/questions/497500/disable-automatic-maintenance-in-windows-8.

[paulsalter]

Thanks for the reply
I will use the method you linked to when next streaming local files from c drive

Its not often I stream content from here, so no big issue and can be got around

Cheers