I hope this isn't a sign of things to come. My first night of properly using the Media PC, and I've hit a bit of a snag.
I set Wanted to "record series", and I noticed that the first episode was complaining that there wouldn't be enough space to record it. There quite clearly is – there's 100gb of space on the disk. While trying to investigate further, EShell (which is basically Media Center) crashed. "Fair enough", I thought, "these things happen. I'll try again".
I then set Supernatural to "record series". The same thing happened, and EShell crashed. I restarted Media Center again, and whilst navigating around the scheduled recordings page, EShell crashes. This happened fairly consistently. During all this I was recording the first episode of The Apprentice, and credit to Media Center, it has managed to record the whole program, with (by the looks of it) minimal hiccups.
I've also checked the event log, and there are large numbers of "Failure opening database connection" and "Exception opening connection to database" errors. An hours worth, in fact. Funnily enough, exactly the same amount of time that The Apprentice was recording for.
Back in a moment…
…Now that The Apprentice has finished recording, it appears that everything is working fine…how strange…
I will be keeping an eye on this one.
