ell, you would think that Windows 7’s new MediaCenter would be up to the task of recording your TV to a network share/drive.Too bad, it looks like it’s just not possible.
I have a windows 2008 R2 server, and a Windows 7 machine with a TV card. Since my server has 2TB of storage, it would be nice to record directly to it’s networked drive. (I mounted it as Z:).
I tried the following:
1. Selecting it in Media Center Itself: Not working. Not available.
2. Editing the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Service\Recording , setting RecordPath to Z:\TV. Not working.
3. Editing the registry: setting RecordPath to \\server\TV. Not working.
4. Creating a Symlink (mklink \D) to Z:\TV and \\server\TV and setting that in the registry as RecordPath.
Currently I am out of options. I could ofcourse Install Windows7 on my server, but I have no license for that, and my windows 2008 r2 is free from dreamspark.
Are there people that are succesfully recording to a networked drive/storage?
Update 1
Some friendly soul at SuperUsers.com suggested using StarWind to make a iSCSI drive. It turns out that it only supports disk-images, so I can only use a pre-allocated 500GB file.
Multiple connections to a single iSCSI target with a NTFS filesystem can result in hosing your filesystem, so it aint a solution for my problem, since I need to acces the recordings also from my laptop drive, without having my media center pc on.
Microsoft oh Microsoft, why do you not just work with Mounted Network Drives…..
This works nicely. You create a windows scheduler task that runs when a recording finishes and copies over the recorded program. Works fine for me (and i’m running win7 on a 32GB SSD), but remember to use quotes in the batch file if the file path has spaces.
http://www.mediacenterhouse.com/forum/archive/index.php/thread-349.html