Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/17 16:57I'm trying to play some iso files from Popcornhour, and I can't find the right syntax to set up network shares in SwissCenter. All the descriptions I find are for the beta firmware which I don't have, so I'm stuck with the 080612 one.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/17 17:26Try:
[SMB] UTSI-7F05ELHKG9:IMAGESPlayer : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/17 17:39Thanks, you saved my day once again
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/17 18:27I don't want to revert back to the last public firmware so could you tell me what the following URL shows you:
I'm wondering if I can use this page to automatically define the network share, or at least provide all those defined in a dropdown.Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/18 00:42I don't want to revert back to the last public firmware so could you tell me what the following URL shows you:
When I open this URL, I see the network share management page of the PCH, the html is attached if you need this for testing the parsing - the user interace of my PCH is in German.
I guess you'll have to look for the local machine name in the page string and match the last part of the link string ("IMAGES") with the path on the local host(K:\Movies\IMAGES"). It will make the process much more user friendly.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/18 06:09Thanks, looks like I can use this
I'll parse the page and offer the network shares in a dropdown, correctly formatted according to firmware.
Later firmwares allow you to name the share to anything you like, so there's no way I can automatically match media location with share.Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/18 06:25Hmm, I don't understand, why the dropdown? There's a 1:1 mapping between the folders, so the user shouldn't be given any choice. If I type in "K:\Movies\IMAGES" and press submit, I would want SwissCenter to find the correct share right away. There can be only one "IMAGES" share mounted on the PCH as it is not possible to have more than 2 levels in the string {host_name}/{share_name}. Or am I missing something? You could have a input field to manually overwrite the value in case the NMT is turned off or unavailable. Or a validation message saying "No matching share found, input manually?".
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/18 06:59The later firmwares don't list the network shares as {host_name}/{share_name}, it is simply {share_name}. And the {share_name} is user defined on the PCH.
In your case you have 'K:/Movies/IMAGES' mapped to '//UTSI-7F05ELHKG9/IMAGES'. On the PCH it may not be called IMAGES. I have a mapping of 'D:/Videos/DVD_Images' but on the PCH this is simply listed as 'DVD's'. There is nothing to make a definitive correlation.
So the best I can do is offer all those defined on the PCH to select from.Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/18 07:45Ah, in that case a select box is just fine. I too want that beta fw Could someone email it to me: Utsi74@gmail.com?
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/18 09:33I now have it correctly forming the network share for SMB and the newer firmware, but I don't have any NFS to test with. So...
Can someone provide the html page containing NFS shares?Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/18 10:28If you email me the fw, I'll put some effort into figuring it out this evening
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/18 11:10The firmware is too large to email, but if you do 'find' it then remember that I need the html page with NFS shares for the 080612 release, and the latest beta.Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/18 17:13Damn, this was harder than I had expected. Had to install Cygwin and screw around with things I'm not familiar with. Here's the 080612 html. It's a rar file.
I managed to get my hands on the beta firmware, now to install it and hope it doesn't mess up my pch. I'll report back.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/18 18:08I wasn't expecting anything but the share alias. In your case the Network Share in SwissCenter should be entered as 'NETWORK_SHARE/nfstest'. Please confirm.
Are your previous two SMB shares still working on the PCH after the firmware update? I suspect you may need to redefine them on the PCH, then re-enter them in SwissCenter as 'NETWORK_SHARE/IMAGES' and 'NETWORK_SHARE/Media2'.Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/18 18:47I wasn't expecting anything but the share alias. In your case the Network Share in SwissCenter should be entered as 'NETWORK_SHARE/nfstest'. Please confirm. Correct, it works with that syntax.
Are your previous two SMB shares still working on the PCH after the firmware update? I suspect you may need to redefine them on the PCH, then re-enter them in SwissCenter as 'NETWORK_SHARE/IMAGES' and 'NETWORK_SHARE/Media2' Yes and no. Media2 is a regular movie folder, and it works without doing anything with the blank share field. IMAGES, however, is a dvd iso share, and it doesn't work when changing from the previous syntax [smb] etc. to 'UTSI-7F05ELHKG9/IMAGES'. I didn't restart Simese.exe, could that make any difference?
I'm sorry, but I need to catch some sleep now. Give me instructions and I will do some more testing tomorrow.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/19 06:39I meant does your SMB IMAGES share still work on the PCH (not SwissCenter). I suspect you may have to re-add it.
The network share identification stuff is now complete, I'll submit the changes later in the day.
Thanks.Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/19 07:26Yes, they still worked. I did not need to do anything on the PCH. But when I opened my shares for the first time, the display names (alias names) were blank. When I closed the share page, they were set to the same as the real path if they were blank.
Looking forward to seeing the results.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/19 17:22You haven't checked it in yet, have you?
In the config page it says: The network share is only required for the media type 'DVD Video', and will be ignored for all other media types. This is the SMB/NFS network share link and must be entered in the form 'NETWORK_SHARE/DVD' where DVD is the 'Share Name' defined in Setup->Network Share on your Popcorn Hour (or other NMT).
I've read here that there's better performance over smb/nfs than over http with the latest PCH firmware. Maybe you shouldn't ignore it for other media types?
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/20 07:39You haven't checked it in yet, have you? No, had PC trouble and some real work issues.
I've read here that there's better performance over smb/nfs than over http with the latest PCH firmware. Maybe you shouldn't ignore it for other media types? There may be better performance but it would not fit in with how we do things in SwissCenter. With SMB/NFS you can only send a single file at a time!
In SwissCenter we use playlists for all media types. This allows us to have the now playing screen, multiple file movies, background music to photos, etc. So if we did use SMB/NFS then we would lose everything that we use SwissCenter for.Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/20 14:05OK, I don't know enough about SwissCenter to argue that, I'll just take your word for it. I don't even know how I would notice better transfer speed, would it be less studdering or would I just simply be able to play movies that wouldn't play over http?
As an alternative, you could provide a smb/nfs solution with reduced functionality just so we could stay inside SwissCenter when playing for example MKV's encoded with High@L5.1 profile.
I don't know if it's possible to add redirects to smb/nfs to the playlist or if introducing that feature would mean too big changes to SwissCenter, but it sure would be nice. I usually play one file at a time anyway.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/20 14:59I usually play one file at a time anyway. What?!? No music videos? Showcenters 1000g/200/250HD Popcorn Hour A-100 Netgear HDX101 Powerline Adapters Windows XP Simese 2.07 running latest SVN NAS Server IBM NetVista 900Mhz/256RAM
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/20 15:13I don't feel the need to see P Diddy's latest videos. Music is about hearing not watching
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/21 11:37Music is about hearing not watching I dunno... some singers I just never tire of watching... I really don't know why
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/21 13:05That's a good argument for multiple file support: Mariah Carey (video) + Metallica (audio). (The other way around would just be wrong). But hey, why not Mary Carey instead? She does what Mariah does well, only better
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/22 10:12As an alternative, you could provide a smb/nfs solution with reduced functionality just so we could stay inside SwissCenter when playing for example MKV's encoded with High@L5.1 profile. Lets see if anyone has any issues with high bitrate MKV's over HTTP first.Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/24 17:05They say they've found a way to improve HTTP performance now, so there may not be need for any changes after all.
Now there's another problem: I downloaded the latest version from svn and that gives me the following errormsg in the config page under "Configuration"->"Folders".
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Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Simese\Data\base\capabilities.php on line 111
Any ideas?
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/24 17:09Folders?Showcenters 1000g/200/250HD Popcorn Hour A-100 Netgear HDX101 Powerline Adapters Windows XP Simese 2.07 running latest SVN NAS Server IBM NetVista 900Mhz/256RAM
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/24 17:13Hum.. "Media Folders" maybe? Section=DIRS. I've got a Norwegian version, you see.
Anyway, The error message went away as soon as I removed the foreach loop and just hard coded my popcornhour ip as a quick fix.
Edit: Something's messed up with my clients table. The sql "select * from clients;" returns error 127 from table handler. But "SELECT count(*) from clients" returns 1. Strange..
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/24 17:44We're seeing this MySQL error 127 quite a bit recently. No idea what's causing it though
If you install the MySQL Administrator you can do a repair on the table to fix it.Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/24 17:48I tried "delete from clients;" and it removed the message. But the table did not get populated again though, even after restarting both the PCH and Simese
Will try the MySQL Admin thing tomorrow if it doesn't repair itself overnight.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/25 03:30Problem resolved, or at least I think so. When I had deleted everything from the table clients, the table looked like this:
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ip_address varchar(100) PRI
box_id varchar(100) YES
user_id int(10) unsigned YES
agent_string text YES
device_type text YES
last_seen datetime YES
screen_type text YES
screen_x_res int(10) unsigned YES
screen_y_res int(10) unsigned YES
browser_x_res int(10) unsigned YES
browser_y_res int(10) unsigned YES
aspect text YES
port int(11) YES
Yes, mac_addr, browser_x_res and browser_y_res were missing. So I had to manually add these columns myself:
Then it worked. Any idea why this happened? Is the db a bit unstable?
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/25 06:32When you grabbed the code from SVN did you also get the database folder which contains patches for the database? Sounds like you are missing patch_0021.sql, patch_0022.sql, and patch_0023.sql.Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/25 13:01I checked the database folder, and all the patches are there. But I've had the error msg from the beginning, also when installing the package version. I asked a friend of mine, and he has it too. I suspect there's something wrong with the clients table, create script or the datatype in mac_addr. Have you tried doing a clean install yourself lately?
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/25 19:20I'm still using my original db from over 18 months ago, no problems so don't really want to re-create from scratch.
In Expert Options->Edit The Database try entering:
repair table clients;
Does this fix it?
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/26 02:00I already fixed mine, so I would have to re-create the problem. You're perfectly capable of backing up your database, so just ask nicely next time I'll see what I can do later today. I don't have much faith in databases repairing themselves, though.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/26 07:46OK. Backed up everything and deleted the Simese folder.
-Installed the new popcornhour package. -Turned on my PCH unit and accessed SwissCenter. -"Select * from clients;" failed with message: "Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: Unable to save result set in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Simese\Data\base\mysql.php on line 379"
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"Got error 127 from table handler"
-Executed "repair table clients;" without errors. -"Select * from clients;" executed without errors. You were right!
But what screws it up in the first place?
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/26 08:12But what screws it up in the first place? No idea! What's even stranger is that a few users have reported exactly the same over the past few days using plain 1.20.1, why now?Player : Netgear EVA700 & Popcorn A-100 (081106) Server : Vista SP1 Home Premium (Simese 2.07, SwissCenter current SVN) Spec : Intel C2Q Q6600, 2GB RAM, 1Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/26 09:01My guess is that it's been there all along. It's only just becoming an issue now when you've started using the table.
As a quick fix you could release a patch with the repair statement or run it as part of the create script.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/26 11:03The Simese package comes with a pre-built database, Perhaps the clients table in that database is corrupt? Player : Pinnacle Showcenter 200 and 1000 (wired ethernet) Server : Windows XP Pro running on an Athlon XP 2200, 768 Mb RAM, 1.8 Tb storage.
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Re: Popcornhour and network shares - 2008/08/26 11:56That is probably it
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Could someone email it to me: Utsi74@gmail.com?
