Author: Dennis

Dennishttp://www.aroundmyroom.comDennis Slagers, Just a guy from Holland

CFULLHDMA: beta 1.11.21

Ok, it took me long hours debugging why in certain situations the mounting of Samba Shares was failing. In short: not many users whould have seen this bug. Only in certain configuration setups like the one I am using myself. But enough reason for me to tell everyone on the beta list not to use it unless you are willing to suffer the issue not be able to mount.

Afer finding and analyzing the issue

Back from business trip

No updates the last few days. I was away for a business trip somewhere in sunny France. We took the Thalys and the TGV (and Metro) .. Quick and easy.

Meanwhile I am home again so a quick update. Tomorrow I’ll check if I have more things to tell yes/no. Now we close the notebook. Working day ends.

CFULLHDMA: Beta firmware 1.11.13 release

Betaversion: 1.11.13

  • New: smbf replaced for CIFS. Better support for Samba Shares under Kernel 2.6.
  • note: samba shares with usernames are NOT yet supported (error 407)
  • New: Support for Conceptronic CHD3NET Landisk.
  • New: Support for FLAC 8,16,24 bit format.
  • New: UDP support for Multicast Streams in IMedia
  • Fixed: some iMedia content cannot play.
  • Fixed: TS files which have more than one PMT could not be played.
  • Fixed: iMedia loading icon issues.

Main focus for this release was to give better support for Samba Shares. Beta testers will be informed today. Note: new download location for firmware will be used to save bandwidth for this site.

Please discuss this firmware in the forum and use the trac system for your beta test info. All beta testers who applied on the cfullhdma page will be notified.

CFULLHDMA: Playing with UDP multicast traffic

An undocumented feature reveal ;-)

Adding UDP multicast streams in the IMedia part of the CFULLHDMA.  Tested from 1.11.04.06/09

  • – open MSIE or Firefox: http://[ip-address]:41952/web/IMedia
  • – Add new Station and enter in the Title: UDP test Stream
  • – In the URL section add the following: udp://239.0.0.1:1234

save this.

For my test I used a simple MPG stream (high bandwidth could be problematic) of 800MB with 1 hour duration.

Download VideoLan (VLC) In my test environent I used 0.8.6c but I know there is a newer version available

create a startup line or batch file with the following command:

start vlc.exe -vvv [path to videofile] –sout “#duplicate{dst=std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=239.0.0.1:1234}}” –repeat

example:

start vlc.exe -vvv E:\MPEG2\Video1.mpg –sout “#duplicate{dst=std{access=udp,mux=ts,dst=239.0.0.2:1234}}” –repeat

VLC will be started and plays the stream. Now go to your IMEdia part of the CFULLHDMA (Red remote control button) and select UDP test stream .. you stream must start .. where it is at that time ..

Oh .. and if your LED’s of your router / switches are flashing like hell .. hey that seems to be normal with this kind of traffic ;-)

No idea if someone can use it in his/her environment but this is the place to share..

more info or discussion in the Forum

Redesigning Study Room

Today we redesigned the study room which is our control room. The HiFi installation, the PC’s, the Notebook, the Server .. (around 4 UTP connections are in the wall so short cables is the only thing we need).

The server was moved to the livingroom (yeah, we have UTP there as well) on Saturday. Around 16.00h Sunday we moved it back to the study again. No downtime .. the UPS is alive ;-) About 1 or 2 minutes 20 seconds no network activity. It’s patched through a main connection to the main switch so no extra switches are used.

A little geeky but if it’s working, it is working great.

Weekend!

So .. it’s weekend.. a last e-mail just sent . and of course used a wrong from: address.. Pfff..

So do not expect toooooooo much this weekend. I am  r e l a x i n g (so watching TV series) .. and turning off the Monitor.