Question about Vista's Media Center + Windows Home Server

[XBoxLPU]

I have ~700 GB of Free space on my Windows Home Server box.. and only about 20Gb (it is a 40Gb Hard drive) free on the box running Vista Ultimate/Media Center. So it just seems natural that I should want to incorporate the two together huh. Why does Microsoft make this so complicated?

I followed this guide and I have ZERO problems recording directly to the server and seeing the Recorded TV.

My problem begins with the settings on the Recorder Storage menu, the only location available is the C: drive (can't change it) and my quota size of recording is limited to 20Gb or so of the local drive.

If I save settings on the Recorder Storage menu the size of the local 40GB HD is stored in the registry @

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Settings\VideoSettings
DiskLimit=

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Media Center\Service\Recording
Quota=

I can change these numbers to increase them but the available Recorder Storage does not change. Is there anyway around this?

 

[Raduque]

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[RebateMonger]

Can you just schedule a task on Vista/MCE to move any new media files from the local PC to the shared folders on WHS? I don't know if this would cause any difficult-to-solve Media Library indexing problems, if such things exist in the Media Center programs.

 

[XBoxLPU]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Can you just schedule a task on Vista/MCE to move any new media files from the local PC to the shared folders on WHS? I don't know if this would cause any difficult-to-solve Media Library indexing problems, if such things exist in the Media Center programs.

Yes I could with any of the many sync programs but if there is only enough storage space to record 20Gb of TV which is only 5 hours I would hit that limit if I had any day where I scheduled multiple recordings

Though I didn't really want to, I removed a 250Gb hard drive from the WHS box and installed into the Media Center box. Now I have 62 hours and plenty of space that I don't have to worry about it.