<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Dennis Cartier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennis.cartier@gmail.com">dennis.cartier@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Michael T. Dean <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com" target="_blank">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 08/10/2009 09:28 AM, Dennis Cartier wrote:<br>
> I thought I would try using my WDTV device (with the WDLXTV firmware<br>
> for network operation) to be a temporary frontend. I found the<br>
> mythrename.pl script and set about getting the recorded content<br>
> exposed to the WDTV over NFS. The content was recorded from a HD<br>
> Homerun ATSC tunner.<br>
><br>
> The first problem that I ran into was that the symbolic links the<br>
> script makes are not really suited for the way the WDTV mounts the NFS<br>
> shares. WDTV wants to always mount things under a common mount point<br>
> (/tmp/media/usb/[mount name]). I figured this would simply be a minor<br>
> bit of work to modify the script to create relative links that take<br>
> into account the mount structure of the WDTV device.<br>
<br>
</div>Assuming the WDTV device supports it, you can also use CIFS and have the<br>
server resolve symlinks for you. Add the lines:<br>
<br>
unix extensions = No<br>
follow symlinks = Yes<br>
wide links = Yes<br>
<br>
to the "[global]" section of your smb.conf.<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
<div><div></div><div>_______________________________________________<br clear="all"></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>The WDTV does support CIFS, but unfortunately NFS is the only available protocol able to meet the bandwidth requirements of 1080 content. CIFS is good up to 720p on the WDTV, but anything higher requires NFS.<br>
<br>I am not sure if this is a limitation of the WDTV only, or if Samba is just not fast enough in general.</blockquote></div><br>Just to follow up on this for anyone with the same issue, it turned out to be the packet size was too large. I added "rsize=8196" to the end of the xmount line in the net.mounts file and all was good.<br>
<br>Now to hack the rename script for the WDTV directory structure.<br><br>Dennis<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side. ”<br>
<br>Hunter S. Thompson, US journalist (1939 – 2005)<br><br>