November 1, 201114 yr So over this past weekend I set about putting my PCH C-200 back in use in our family room. I've been using an HTPC in our pseudo-home theater room for a while so the C-200 was in retirement. Anyway, the HTPC has no problems whatsoever streaming Blu-ray movies (ISOs) from our new unRAID server using the default Samba share for that folder on the server. I sat through Beauty and the Beast with my granddaughters Saturday evening and there were no problems. But when I got the C-200 back online and tried streaming a Blu-ray ISO I was getting horrible stuttering. Remembering a similar problem back when I first started using WHSv1 to stream to the C-200 where I had to use NFS shares on the WHSv1 server, I setup NFS for the Blu-ray-Movies user share on unRAID using *(ro). I updated that share on my C-200 and viola!, it works just fine now streaming a Blu-ray ISO. So my question is, is this behavior to be expected or have others at least seen the same thing?
November 1, 201114 yr As I recall, the Popcorn Hour products have always worked much better with NFS shares than with Samba.
November 1, 201114 yr Author As I recall, the Popcorn Hour products have always worked much better with NFS shares than with Samba. That would certainly seem to be the case. Perhaps a better question is do I have anything to be concerned about with respect to having an NFS share source on my unRAID 4.7 server?
November 2, 201114 yr do I have anything to be concerned about with respect to having an NFS share source on my unRAID 4.7 server? I've been running an NFS share to feed my PCH A-110 without issue since 4.7 was released. Kevin
November 2, 201114 yr Author I've been running an NFS share to feed my PCH A-110 without issue since 4.7 was released. Kevin Thanks, that's good to know! -Kevin (also)
November 2, 201114 yr I use nfs exclusively with pch c-200 and a-200 in 4.x, and now 5.0. In fact, my only usage of samba is for access to the unRAID flash drive.
November 2, 201114 yr Update the firmware on the C-200 and set it to 10/100. I've watched hundreds of Blu-rays over Samba on the C-200. NFS is not needed (it was on the A-110).
November 2, 201114 yr Same as neilt0, Make sure the firmware is updated as they did make some improvements to samba and set the networking speed to 10/100. NFS is generally a faster file share but samba is fast enough for all my blurays. Josh
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