Drive freezing on video playback/odd file system

WD Legacy Products Other Network Drives
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Hi

Using my WD drive as a media drive connected to my xbox 360. Two issues, one odd, one troublesome.

Firstly, everytime I use my xbox to browse the drive an extra folder gets added to the menu tree.

I.e, the navigation should be video/Media:TMS then I choose between “All Videos/By Date/ By Folder/By Year/Personal Rating/Playllists.”

However, everytime I nagivate to the drive extra folder options get added, there are currently 30(!!) extra “By Folder”, “By Year” and “Playlist” folders. If I turn the xbox off and on again, there’ll be even more folders added. Any idea??

The problem I’m then having is that a lot of video playback is pretty stuttery. Can go through a phase of pausing very frequently for 3 or 4 seconds. Terribly irritating when trying to get into a good movie!

I’m running the latest firmware, and these problems have occured since updating. I also have a ton of mp3s and photos on the drive, and I’m wondering if the drive is having trouble indexing so many items…Any settings help to correct this would be hugely appreciated!

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How do you access the MBW? As as share or as a media server? Can you please provide more details like the configuration you have or what you have tried so far?

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I have a fairly standard network at home. The hard drive is connected by ethernet to an aolynk 4 port router, xbox is connected to the same router. The computers I use to access the drive do so wirelessly.

Not sure how the xbox connects to it, I never changed it so it’s however it does it by default. PC’s just connect to it as a shared drive.

I imagine the xbox is reading it as a media server using the twonky software. Can I get it to bypass that and just read it as a shared drive? How?