TexasAg

It's just to make local DNS queries resolve.

For anybody else that has the problem as me, I was able to solve it by creating a file, dnsmasq.d/10-custom.conf, that contained addn-hosts=/etc/pihole/extrahosts.list then I created the extrahosts.list file in the pihole directory with the hosts entries I wanted for my local network.

Hi all, What's the best approach for creating a hosts file for systems on my lan within the pihole docker? Thanks.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but I would greatly appreciate a newzbin invitation if anybody has one. Thanks.

WD officially launched their 1.5 and 2TB drives today: http://westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=576 Hopefully it will hit newegg soon.

I have 2 switches in between my unraid server and my popcorn hour. They're just basic d-link gigabit switches. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127082 I haven't noticed any performance issues.

Tom, It looks like this update has fixed the issue that I encountered with files not being sent to the correct disk in a user share.

AnyDVD HD is required software to break the copy protection. If you want an ISO, there really isn't anything simpler than ripping to iso from anydvd. ToNMT is a nice program, but it's basically a front end for eac3to and tsmuxer. It downsamples HD audio to either DTS or AC3. It also only lets you keep one audio/video track, and doesn't allow you to keep subtitle tracks (how are you doing this?). ToNMT basically just simplifies the ripping process for blu-ray, and forces things that you may not want (losing HD audio). I personally just do everything "manually" with TSMuxer/TSRemux and TS Splitter. I do actually use tonmt to identify the correct mpls on seamless branching files as it seems quicker to use that BDEdit. You have to remember though that not everybody is streaming to an NMT like the Popcorn Hour. Some people are running an HTPC connected to their TV/Projector, mounting the BD iso and playing it back with PowerDVD. For those people, there is no need to strip the main movie from the BD. They just need a copy of the disc on their HDD/server.

I still don't think you understand. If your files will stream from your PC to the PCH via Samba, then they will stream from an unRaid server as well. Unraid is not the bottleneck here. You will run into the same bitrate limitations no matter what you use as a server - unraid/freenas etc. That said, if your files are coming out at 20gigs, you're probably well below the 38mbps Samba limit and will not have any problems streaming to the PCH (which we already know because you can stream them from a PC without problems). More specifically you're at about 22mbps assuming a 2 hour movie.

I'm not sure while you would say that. The popcorn hour can support SMB up to about 38mbps. HTTP to 42mpbs. NFS to 32mbps. SMB speeds have been improved with recent firmware updates. I don't know if that trend will continue. These speed limitations are all on the PCH's end, not unraid. Generally speaking, you'll have an easier time streaming high bitrate files via HTTP. You can use a program like myihome on another PC on your network or you can install llink on your unraid box. I know that others have done this, but I'm not linux-savvy enough to do it myself. Personally, I just remux the m2ts files to remove the unnecessary video/audio/subtite streams and lower the required bitrate. I very rarely run into a movie that stutters and even then, it's only for a few seconds or so.

You can achieve SUSTAINED write speed above 15MB/s? And by sustained I mean writing several gigabytes with this speed. I'm asking because for systems like UNRAID there is typical an initial burst of speed and then huge speed decrease as transfer continues. This behavior is common not only for UNRAID, but also for cheap NAS solutions for home segment. I found an UNRAID review in some online computer magazine some time ago and they come to the same conclusion with sustained writing speed way below ten megabytes per second. Virtually all of my transfers are 20-30GB files.

I think the speeds have something to do with a combo of your board, drives, boot options, etc. I'm experiencing increased speeds all around. I'm seeing 15-20MB/S write speeds with 4.4 Final.

Looking into this... Any updates? Thanks.

If you'd like to scramble eggs on it, it's not a bad choice. I have one in my server and I won't be buying another. And when it's finally time to replace my 1tb's with 3 or 4tb drives, that will be the first one to go.

The next batch is going out on the 18th. They update shipping status on networkedmediatank.com