OK I have upgraded to the latest beta, 4.5b6.

 

Testparm lists the "UNMovies" as a share, with the dump as follows.

 

[uNMovies]

    path = mnt/user/media/video/movies

    read only = No

    include = /etc/samba/smb-share.conf

 

Now when I look at the unRAID server from my PC I see the "Tower" and listed in it are disk1,disk2,flash,media and unmovies.

 

However I can access disk1,disk2, flash and media but not "UNMovies" when I click on that the system just hangs. In fact if I have previously tried to access "UNMovies" on the tower I cannot access anything that I could before and I need to reboot the unRAID server.

 

The PCH cannot access the "UNMovies" share either.

 

Any ideas?

 

Ridley

 

 

It looks like are still missing the leading "/" from /mnt/user/......  your file looks like it contains mnt/user/movies......

 

What exactly do you see when you type

cat -v /boot/config/smb-extra.conf

 

From the telnet prompt, what do you see if you type:

ls -l /mnt/user/media/video/movies

 

 

 

OK I added the leading "/".

 

And then a though occured to me..........

 

Repeat after me, I must remember that linux is case specific....

 

I checked the case of the folders changed the script and it appears to be working not both on the PC and on the PCH.

 

So, thanks for all the help.

 

Ridley

OK I added the leading "/".

 

And then a though occured to me..........

 

Repeat after me, I must remember that linux is case specific....

 

I checked the case of the folders changed the script and it appears to be working not both on the PC and on the PCH.

 

So, thanks for all the help.

 

Ridley

Repeat after me....

If in the future I ask a question, and somebody gives me advice... at least "read" what they wrote. 

If I do not understand, ask politely for clarification.   

They are probably trying to help... but will quickly find themselves assuming the first basic items they suggest were tried.

 

Glad you are now working with the PCH.  I know the media players are a very nice addition to my LAN...  (We have two MG-35 media players)

 

Joe L.

I mentioned both items in the prior post. (case sensitivity, and the missing leading "/") the answer was there... if you read and understood it.

please excuse my ignorance.  I am a PCH (no hard drive) user who recently built an unRaid box.  I got llink running on it, which was pretty straight forward.  YAMJ, however, hasn't been.  The instructions for install are rather windows-centric, and can't seem to find something more applicable to a flash installation of linux like unRaid.

 

hoping to make some headway on this....any help appreciated.

 

thanks in advance,

calvin

I have two A-110's and they both seem to suffer the same problem.  When I play content from drives that are not spun down, it works flawlessly.  If the popcorn hour attempts to access content on any drive that is spun down, it freezes and never comes back.  I need to reboot the popcorn hour.  After a reboot, all is well until a drive spins down again and that will cause the popcorn hour to lockup again.  Both of my A-110's have the exact same symptoms.  I am using SMB.  Can anyone help me?  Does anyone use popcorn hour and unRAID successfully where the popcorn hour is able to access a spun-down drive with locking up and requiring a restart of the popcorn hour?  Thanks!

My PCH works fine spinning up drives on unRAID... but I use HTTP and not SMB or NFS.

My PCH works fine spinning up drives on unRAID... but I use HTTP and not SMB or NFS.

 

Hi bubbaQ,

 

i have some questions. How do u access your box with http (i mean the data, not the main site of your unRAID Server)? How will the content of your server be shared.The first time i saw that somebody dont't use well known "protocols" (like SMB, NFS, WebDAV etc.) was the blog from backplace <http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/>

From their website: ....The pods boot 64-bit Debian 4 Linux and the JFS file system, and they are self-contained appliances, where all access to and from the pods is through HTTPS....

 

O. K. i used HFS (a http file server on windows), but i don't know how to share my data (user shares) on my unRAID-box with http, so that my MacBook Pro can see them.

 

Hope you can help me 

i have llink running on my unRaid server (as well as the standard samba shares) to share data with my PCH via http.  getting that running was easy (search for it here, there's a wiki), but I've been trying to get YAMJ running as well, and that hasn't been nearly as straight forward.

How do u access your box with http

 

I have a full Slackware install with unRAID to hard drive, and run Apache.

So I researched HTTP and it seems like this won't allow DVD playback via VIDEO_TS folders with full menu control.  Currently, I have my DVDs ripped to VIDEO_TS folders and have full menu control while streaming over SMB to my PCH.  My wife likes the special features, etc.  So...  is there a solution for using the PCH to stream VIDEO_TS folders with full DVD menu control that doesn't cause any issues when spinning up a drive from unRAID?  Anyone have a solution for that?  Is it possible via HTTP?

 

Thanks!

Is it possible via HTTP?

 

No.  Transcode to MP4, and use a MKV container.

Is it possible via HTTP?

 

No.  Transcode to MP4, and use a MKV container.

wouldn't that lose all the menu stucture that he says he wants to retain?

 

When I get a chance, I'll play around with my PCH via samba and see if I have the same issues with spun down drives you say you have.  I don't recall seeing the problem you describe.

You can configure YAMJ to stream everything over HTTP (llink), apart from DVDs, which can stream over Samba or NFS:

 

http://code.google.com/p/moviejukebox/wiki/Using_YAMJ_With_LLink

wouldn't that lose all the menu stucture that he says he wants to retain?

 

Yes, but who want's them?  I mean really, you can do chapters in MKV.  PCH bookmarks and resumes where you left off.  If you want the xtras (bloopers etc) you encode them separately as separate MP4 vids (I think in my entire life, I kept one "extra" ... the one from Dancing at the Blue Iguana").

 

I'm a purist... when I watch a movie, I watch a movie the way the director intended -- not play with a remote and jump around.  Cest la vie.

 

Marketing... bleh.

wouldn't that lose all the menu stucture that he says he wants to retain?

 

Yes, but who want's them?  I mean really, you can do chapters in MKV.  PCH bookmarks and resumes where you left off.  If you want the xtras (bloopers etc) you encode them separately as separate MP4 vids (I think in my entire life, I kept one "extra" ... the one from Dancing at the Blue Iguana").

 

I'm a purist... when I watch a movie, I watch a movie the way the director intended -- not play with a remote and jump around.  Cest la vie.

 

Marketing... bleh.

i'm not saying it's the norm to keep them, the guy just specifically said he wanted to do so for his wife who likes to watch the extras.

 

now if i could only figure out how to get YAMJ running on my unRaid box....

No.  Transcode to MP4, and use a MKV container.

I am technical but a lot of this is new to me.  From what I have read it looks like MP4 and MKV are both containers and can contain many different video formats.  What are you transcoding to?  MPEG-4 AVC/h264/x264?  I have found many different guides for transcoding and I am not sure where to start.  Is there a guide or process somewhere that you would recommend?  Based on what I have read, it looks like I am going to try using either MeGUI or Handbrake and transcoding to x264 in a MKV container and then use llink to stream to my PCH with YAMJ.  I know I will lose the DVD menu info, but I can create MKVs for the extras my wife is interested in and add as an extra in YAMJ.  Once I get that figured out my next step is to figure out a process for Bluray titles.  Thanks for any advice or help.

Everything you need to know .... http://www.doom9.org/

To keep everything rip them to .iso or .img, view them over samba, works great on my egreat NMT.

 

DVD Shrink will often allow you to rip only what  you want in terms of languages, menus etc....

ConvertXtoDVD allows conversion back to DVD.

 

NMT can play straight rips of DVDs just select the VIDEO_TS folder.

 

MP4, MKV and TS (Playstation 3) are popular wrappers.

 

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/

Thanks for all the information everyone.  Lots of good info.  I have much more reading and testing to do with transcoding DVDs to x264 in a MKV container.  The good news in the short term is that I switched from Samba to NFS and my PCH no longer locks up when it attempts to access a drive that is spun down.    I do get an occasional error when spinning up a drive and need to return to the previous window within YAMJ but I can live with that for now;  at least with using NFS I don't need to keep power cycling my PCH every time a disk needs to be spun up.  Thanks for all the advice and the links.

I have a 1.5TB drive in my PCH right now.  I would like to move all the data from it to my server.

 

Can you plug the USB into the server from the PCH and will it recognize it , then use windows to move the files over ?

 

I'd normally just try, however I am in the middle of moving the info via USB from the PCH to my PC to the server and I didn't want to disrupt it.

 

If it works, I will continue the data transfer that way as right now its taking me about 7 minutes per DVD5 rip.    300+ DVDs on the drive at 7 minutes each is 35 hours

Can you plug the USB into the server from the PCH and will it recognize it , then use windows to move the files over ?

 

Just map the "share" folder on the PCH as a network drive on your Windows machine.  When Windows asks, the user name is "nmt" and the password is "1234".

 

Kevin

I'm stealing a question betaman asked in another thread ( he didn't get an answer on yet and this might be a better place to ask it ):

 

Cache_dirs:  I thought I might need this to prevent disks from unnecessarily spinning up; however, I'm using my UnRAID server to feed my PCH which has a jukebox installed on a local HD in the PCH.  Is cache_dirs going to be of any benefit in this situation since I am browsing my media library with a static jukebox on a completely separate hard drive?  If cache_dirs is still a benefit then is there any modifications required to make it work with the powerdown script (e.g. location of files on my flash drive)?  Currently, I have to hit the stop button twice on the UnRAID main menu to powerdown the server.

 

I always had to browse to my index.html file on my PCH, so I would technically have to browse the files on the server to get to it before I get to my static Jukebox directory, so in my case, having the cache_dir might be of benefit still ?  I did this as I couldn't mount more than 1 share, so I would browse to my drive and load the specific index.html file (ie. E: was kids movies, F: was TV shows, etc. ).    Now, I will have one big share called "media" on the server.

 

I've skimmed a bunch of the PCH threads and I am not 100% clear on which way I need to go.  Some say use llink , others use Samba, however I guess it may depend on each person's needs.  I'm trying to determine which method to use that will A. not have issues with drives that are spun down  B.  stream all content without having to rebuild/remux/re-encode (all the different "re")  .    I rip all my movies to .iso , I have tv shows in .avi and .mkv and I have trailers in .mov .  In the future I will have a BD drive to rip too.

A110: Use llink, no need for cache_dirs, as http requests don't tend to wake up the drives not in use.

 

C200: I use Samba, as I have full BD rips -- can't use llink. Drives are spinning up a lot, so I will be using cache_dirs.

I'm running with an A-110 .  Haven't found the value in getting the C-200 yet  ( ie. I can't justify the cost as it doesn't offer enough improvement ).

 

I will ignore cache_dir for now ( one less thing to read and learn ) and I will research llink   

 

Yes... despite my number of posts, i am a newbie ( just been asking lots of questions ) 

I always had to browse to my index.html file on my PCH, so I would technically have to browse the files on the server to get to it before I get to my static Jukebox directory, so in my case, having the cache_dir might be of benefit still ?  I did this as I couldn't mount more than 1 share, so I would browse to my drive and load the specific index.html file (ie. E: was kids movies, F: was TV shows, etc. ).    Now, I will have one big share called "media" on the server.

 

Do you really want it this way?  I know you're moving content to the UnRAID server now but you could've easily created one share under Windows (see http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=20270) for an effect similar to "user shares' in UnRAID.  In any case, just relocate your index.htm file if you don't want to navigate to the file every time.