As for drives, we like to use Western Digital Purple surveillance drives. I
have had bad luck with Seagate drives dying after a year.
Rick Goetz
R & L Media Systems
rickg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: lptv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lptv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ;
Gil Reynolds
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2021 10:03 AM
To: lptv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lptv] Re: What to do if Masterplay says it took too long to load a
file
I know Rick commented on this... but if it's just starting to do that. I'd say
best buy a new 7200 HD or a Solid State Drive.
We had the same issue about a year ago with an older 1TB drive and it started
throwing up the slow drive speed problem. We replaced it with a 7200 4TB
enterprise drive and haven't had any issues since. Here is the one we got.
It's an off brand drive, and is fairly cheap with a 2 year warranty.
https://www.amazon.com/MaxDigital-7200RPM-Enterprise-Internal-Warranty/dp/B072WMLS52/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1
<https://www.amazon.com/MaxDigital-7200RPM-Enterprise-Internal-Warranty/dp/B072WMLS52/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=MaxDigital&qid=1616684315&sr=8-2>
&keywords=MaxDigital&qid=1616684315&sr=8-2
Gil Reynolds
VP / Station Manager
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Cell 870-391-6060
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 8:09 AM Keith Leitch <keith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi LPTV Loopers,
For my Masterplay system, it didn't play a file this morning and said to check
my drive/system speed. I suppose this means that the hard drive needs to be
replaced, right? I saw that the defrag tool automatically runs every Wednesday
at 1AM, so the drive is not fragmented.
Has anyone else experienced this? I have seen other warnings that files were
able to load but that they took a long time to load. Is there a setting in
Masterplay to load files sooner? In this case, it only tried to load the file
6 seconds before it was to play.
2021-03-25T05:29:54.040 004 try to open D:\Masterplay\Videos\UChannel\UChannel
News.mp4 0x0@29.97 00:00:00;00 MR:0
2021-03-25T05:29:59.595 002 PlaylistAdd failed 5 times, give up:
D:\Masterplay\Videos\UChannel\UChannel News.mp4 -1 -2147220899
2021-03-25T05:29:59.596 001 Open failed but it took 5.554 seconds, check your
drive/system speed
Blessings,
Keith
