Popcorn Hour/Syabas NMT

[efalsken]

Can we get Netgear to officially support a Popcorn Hour or other Syabas NMT (http://www.syabas.com, makers of the software package running on the Popcorn Hour) device?

I happen to have an E-Great NMT (EG-M33A) and it mostly works great wired or wireless (Syabas Mp3 playback is lacking a few usability features, but that's for them to improve, not NetGear). It's played just about every media file I've thrown at it, and then some. As the most popular media player device, it seems like it should get official support.

[shoei]

I've been running a HDX1000 NMT (same core as the PCH) against files on my ReadyNAS NV+ for 7 months now, and it seems to work just fine ?

(well, until I tried to expand my NV+ ... see other thread .... but that's essentially unrelated to the HDX)

What additional support would you want Netgear to provide ? These are two distinct and independant devices residing on a network ?

I'm a little confused

Cheers....

Shoei

[efalsken]

Just so they can get one in-house and "officially" support it. (reduces risk of things "breakin")

I've noticed lately that my vidoes suffer a lot and spend a long time buffering, sometimes losing connection a few minutes into a movie and taking a long time to find my ReadyNAS again.

[shoei]

Hi Again,

I see, well I can't influence Netgear to support PCH gear etc but you can pick my brains if you like

Buffering time and lost connections are something I have only experienced very seldomly streaming across my home network from either for my NAS units (one's my NV+, the other is a conceptronic 2 disk unit "cheapie" I got a good deal on when I bought the HDX1000).

I used to notice that starting movies took a while (initial buffering) but I solved that issue by upgrading my network spine to gigabit using a Netgear JGS524 prosafe 24 bit gigabit switch. Now movies buffer very quickly and I have no connection losses to either of the NAS units. I've even tested it with a data transfer between the NAS units whil streaming to the media tank from the NV+ and, apart from a second or two extra during the initial movie start up, there were no other issues.

Are you streaming HD ? I'm using 4.7GB .iso's as my weapon of choice for movie storage. Also are you using wired or wireless (the wireless dongles are sometimes pretty flakey ....)


Cheers....

Mark

[efalsken]

I've got all my Gear pugged into my 100mb 802.11n wireless router (D-Link, I don't really like Netgear's routers) and there are no extra hubs, so there's no packet collisions. I've noticed the dropouts on both wired and wireless (also wireless-N, sitting right next to the router) connections. It's probably my ReadyNAS (an older X6 model) overloaded. I need to get some large drives and do a complete factory-reset...but 4TB is a lot of stuff to off-load.

[shoei]

Far enough, let me know how it goes.

Another possible check would be to get a small gigabit switch and use it for point to point.

[efalsken]

Oddly enough, lately it has been unable to play a complete MP3 file (SMB or DLNA). It takes a reasonable time at "buffering" then it displays the song info and sits for almost a minute before it starts playing. No matter what I do, it only plays a minute or two of the song and then stops.

[MichaelR64]

I own a PCH-C200 and are on the pch beta testers team.
The pch is picky regarding switches.
I used to use dlinks dgs1005 but these do not suffice.
Using jumbo frames is a notorious issue among all media streamers, not just the c200, and i had it turned off at my pc and my nvx pioneer.
The pc would stream ok but the nvx wouldn't.

When i dumped the dlinks and upgraded them to HP Procurve 1400's i can stream full HD material with the highest bitrates while downloading with 4threads from newsservers AND while nzbget is unrarring a movie.
All this with jumboframes on at the readynas nvx pioneer and gig/e enabled at the C200.

The C200 is compatible with the nvx, it is just that the switches need to be better than your average consumer grade stuff.

Sidenote: the C200 does streaming over nfs only tru nfs-tcp and the built in networkbrowser accesses it over tcp causing browsing to work but streaing to fail.
Creating a mapping in the c200's share menu allows you set it to nfs-tcp. That should work.