Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/20 07:31There seems to be a problem (reported by others on the PopCorn Hour & Istar forums as well) when using the the Simese server software with a Syabas NMT.
The Popcorn Hour & iStar Mini are just badged Syabas NMT using the EM8634 chip.
The UPNP Discovery and Menus work fine, the problem is when streaming a movie via http. The film will start to play then it starts to stutter and freeze, from what I understand the http block size that Simese is sending is too small. I have tested the Popcorn Hour with IIS6 & myiHome and it streams just fine with either.
At the moment my work-around is to use Simese for the menu's on Port 8000 and IIS to stream the movies on port 80. Not a very clean solution and limits the use of bookmarks!!
I have emailed Marco in the hope that this can be fixed.
Thanks DuncanMedia Player: 2x PopCorn hour's (Just replaced the Snazio) Media Server: Windows 2003 with Simese & IIS6 Storage: 6Tb Raid-5 Internal to server, 16Tb Raid-6 iSCSI San.
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/20 07:55Hi,
I'll mail you back with a few questions and if we find a solution I'll post it here.
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/20 16:49It looks like the problem is solved. I gave Duncan a new Simese version. It is really rough and not final, but it uses a more sophisticated internal webserver. I guess Syabas NMT uses some more 'advanced' HTTP stuff which the Simese old version cannot handle. If someone has the same problem and want to try this version, please let me know.
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/20 17:05yes, please I want to give it a try.Popcorn hour, Showcenter 1000b, WinXP, nabaztag/tag
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/22 11:32It looks like the problem hasn't been solved. Right now we're complete lost .
By the way: this version does not support the bookmarking yet and yes, it starts with an empty gray window
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/22 15:32Sorry, it won't start because it's missing the 'FastMM_FullDebugMode.dll' The entire error message is this: "This application has failed to start because FastMM_FullDebugMode.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."Popcorn hour, Showcenter 1000b, WinXP, nabaztag/tag
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/23 07:14Ok, stupid . It was a debug build and I forgot this was needed. But...in the meanwhile I found one (again stupid) bug with the help of Duncan which could be the cause of the stutter. Could you try this one?
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/23 07:18Marco - could you post the link please? I'm testing Swisscenter on a popcorn box now so it would be very useful for me too! Player : Pinnacle Showcenter 200 (wired ethernet) Server : HP MediaSmart EX470 NAS (Windows Home Server / Sempron CPU / 2Gb RAM / 2.0 Tb Storage).
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/23 18:43tried it and liked it It plays flawelessly (both SD and HD files on an SDTV)
Do you still want the log info on this ?Popcorn hour, Showcenter 1000b, WinXP, nabaztag/tag
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/24 07:10jovel wrote: Do you still want the log info on this ? No, I think I finally found the bug. The 2.0 version will not send any files if the size is between 2GB and 4GB, 6GB-8GB etc. The other sizes are no problem. I'll try to squeeze the bookmarking feature in Simese and release a first alpha version.
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/25 08:47Brilliant let us know when the alpha's there and I'm sure we can all give it a test. Showcenter 200, Popcorn A-100 - Wired Windows 2003 Server Swisscenter, myIHome
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/26 05:18So far with a quick play with the debug version it looks good, tried very quickly a few different file types (avi's, mkv 720p, wmv 1080p) and they all seemed to stream well and fast forward nicely.
Will play a bit more over the next few days.
Thanks for all the work and let us know when you get a version with bookmarking working (and the media scheduler would be handy if you can put the code into the new version)
thanks again
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/28 15:50I just tried using the simese 2.0 exe. All I get is a mesage saying failed to access a php.ini file. If I run with admin priviledges then all I get is a blank debug window - no startup messages.
Any ideas?
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/31 10:48Turbo wrote: Thanks for all the work and let us know when you get a version with bookmarking working (and the media scheduler would be handy if you can put the code into the new version) Here is a version which should support the bookmarking. In the zip file is a folder named 'web', if you extract thins in the application folder you can go to http://127.0.0.1:8000 (or your port number) and execute the media scheduler. You have to use 127.0.0.1. This page is not final and might disappear in a next version
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/31 10:51castalla2007 wrote: I just tried using the simese 2.0 exe. All I get is a mesage saying failed to access a php.ini file. If I run with admin priviledges then all I get is a blank debug window - no startup messages.
You do have a running 1.4x Simese version and you just replaced the simese.exe? Where does the message appear, as a messagebox in the screen or in the browser?
The blank debug window is 'as designed', so this is normal.
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/31 11:24Thanks,
I've installed it remotely and will try it tonight.
I guess I'm ok using something like windows scheduler to call:
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/31 12:01The old scheduler still works if the 'config\Simese\SimeseSchedule.ini' file exists. Only the interface has been removed. So if you didn't change anything, it should still work.
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/31 12:11The old scheduler still works if the 'config\Simese\SimeseSchedule.ini' file exists. Only the interface has been removed. So if you didn't change anything, it should still work.
Marco, the latest SwissCenter release has a page for configuring the Simese scheduler via the SimeseSchedule.ini file, so you don't need to add a UI unless you want to
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/03/31 14:50Ooops thanks Rob didn't see the Scheduled Tasks option.
Thanks
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/04/01 19:16Yes ... running latest simese. The message appears in a window box.
Run as administrator (Vista) and it seems to work but doesn't pick up any previous settings.
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/04/06 17:31I just tried version 2 debug for a second time in Vista. I replaced the original simese.exe with the degug version.
If I run not as admin I get an windows panel message saying int can't write to php.ini then an access violation message.
As admin, I get no messages but there's no tray icon - so I assume it isn't running?
Just checked - it is running. So how do I update my media files without the helpful tray menu choice to update?
Any advice?
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/04/06 18:26castalla2007 wrote: So how do I update my media files without the helpful tray menu choice to update?
Under media management select "Search for new media"
A schedule utiity is built into the config for version 1.2
Hope this answers your query...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: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/04/06 18:34Thanks ... I managed to figure out your tip ...
but the lost of the tray icon is a shame ... will it appear in the final version?
I installed the debug because I was getting a freeze on avi files. Haven't had a chance to test out whether it's made any difference.
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/04/14 08:59I'm pretty sure resuming still isn't working on the Popcorn with the latest beta of Simese.
Can anyone else try it out to prove it's not just me.
Thanks
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/04/15 14:58Did you use the 2.0.1 version? I'm pretty sure this 2.0.2 version does support resume
No tray icon, only a main window if you start it as executable and set ShowApplicationForm=1 under the [Common] section.
You can force the media update by using the http://localhost/8000/serverinfo. Here you can (un)install the application as a service or as a windows-startup exe.
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/04/15 18:56Oh dear ... 2.02 is very clumsy with this serverinfo page - I started it as executable without changing the ini file - I can't discover how to stop it!!!
Is the tray so difficult to reinstate?
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/04/16 03:21castalla2007 wrote: Oh dear ... 2.02 is very clumsy with this serverinfo page - I started it as executable without changing the ini file - I can't discover how to stop it!!!
Normally you shouldn't have to restart it, but I didn't think about the ini file... I'll think if something. In the mean time, use the task manager to 'end task' Simese.exe.
The tray... Well...I'm considering that too.
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/04/20 20:33Hi Everybody. This is my first post so please be gentle. I do own a Popcorn Hour and have decided to give SwissCenter a try for, hopefully, the best streaming performance out of the bunch of alternatives.
Anyway, I'm trying to get my Popcorn to see MKV and M2TS files. I've read this thread and added the file extensions to the "capabilities.php" file in the Simese application folder. I've restarted the services for Simese but I still can't see these types of files.
What am I missing? (I swear I did do a search)
Thanks.
EDIT: I figured it out. I had to run a media search. I can see all the files now. I just have to try it out now.
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/05/17 16:13marco wrote: Did you use the 2.0.1 version? I'm pretty sure this 2.0.2 version does support resume
No tray icon, only a main window if you start it as executable and set ShowApplicationForm=1 under the [Common] section.
You can force the media update by using the http://localhost/8000/serverinfo. Here you can (un)install the application as a service or as a windows-startup exe.
Marco.
I had high hopes with Swisscenter with the PCH (since most of the clients for the PCH or SMB are so limited) and I like SS for my SC1000. Resume is one of the big features missing natively from the PCH and I thought SS could fix that. Alas, as another poster on this thread has noted, even with Simese 2.02 and SS 1.2 while I can play all kinds of content, resume doesn't work. The option shows up bu the PCH always starts back at the beginning of the content.
Has anybody gotten resume to work with Simese 2.02 and the PCH?
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Re: Simese and PopCorn Hour - 2008/08/25 04:15Hi,
Any more news on resume, I'm now using Simese 2.05 and latest Swiss from CVS but it still doesn't seem to work. Everything else is great though.
Thanks for all the hard work.
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Well...I'm considering that too.