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Byte
Raymond L
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Re: SAMBA on GFS

Hi there, 

 

I understand you want to use it via the IPad, but im curious to find out if the same lag behaviour occurs via smb on mac/pc? using VLC and also interested in the network traffic MB/s ?

 

Once i get my new IPad (sometime this week) I'll try "Buzz player", from experience it seems to run alot better over SMB than good player.

Byte
p0ttyp1g30n
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Re: SAMBA on GFS

Quoting gunnery sarge Hartman:

 

"heck, I like you. You can come over to my house and **** my sister"

 

Thank you all, guys! You saved my day(s)!!!!!

 

Byte
Raymond L
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Re: SAMBA on GFS

Hi! just got my new IPad and attempted to stream 720 MKV file (>4GB).

 

Playing the same MKV file over my real NAS via MBP + VLC, I have noticed network traffic varies between 560-850kb/s.

 

Streaming the same content over samba on IPad via good player/Buzz player all lagged out (every 2 mins or so)

 

My next steps were to convert the file to 720 MP4 (hopefully it will still be large >4GB), given the file plays natively off the IPad player i wanted to see the Network bufferring causing the skip of frames (most likely)

Kilobyte
hef
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Re: SAMBA on GFS

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mkv hd video playback works great for me. 1080p and 720p on both android and desktop.

 

running samba 3.6.0 with 1ghz overclock, 600mhz min speed, dlna removed, webserver removed and on android using estrongs file explorer for browsing and mx video player for viewing. android is an lg optimus 3d (lg-p920).

 

on both android and desktop i get transfers maxing out around 2.45MB/s.

Byte
tyfoon1
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Re: SAMBA on GFS

Sounds like some extensive hacks but goof news that this seems so give you goof performance.

 

Did you install this from the guys from hackseagatesatellite.com? I have not problem paying as long as I get something that works...

Byte
p0ttyp1g30n
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Re: SAMBA on GFS

You can use the linked page here and follow their instructions (close to 1:1 match, but the differences are pretty obvious) to disable minidlna.

I wouldn't bother disabling scan and the webpage as the benefits are very limited towards performances of the drive and fiddling with configuration and script files becomes less obvious.

 

By simply disabling minidlna you save:

1) memory;

2) CPU;

3) battery (as a direct consequence of bullet 2, being minidlna a resource hog - about 45% continuous CPU usage on my GFS).

Disabling scan saves you about 20% CPU for a limited time (a few minutes at startup) but then the process disappears having completed its task (unless it's the first scan or you added ALOT of contents since previous scan!).

Disabling the webpage saves live memory usage but pretty much no CPU (unless you use it for some reason, but then you'd miss the point of using SAMBA), but prevents you from using some other useful features like joining existing WLANs or changing security (that are available through other scripts, but harder to manage IMHO).

 

Anyway, preventing minidlna from running is a very good thing overall, (if you don't strictly need it) for the list of reasons above and allows for an easier streaming of content; i was not able to stream full HD contents before, but when I commented out minidlna from the startup and resume scripts I gained ability to stream those as well and the CPU of my GFS remains constantly UNDER 20%...

 

Byte
tyfoon1
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Re: SAMBA on GFS

Had no time yet to disable DLNA but with DLNA on, I can't stream a 1080p to my Mac over SMB (using VLC). 720p is doable but not super smooth.

 

How can I check a transfer speed on a Mac by the way?

Byte
p0ttyp1g30n
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Re: SAMBA on GFS


tyfoon1 wrote:

Had no time yet to disable DLNA but with DLNA on, I can't stream a 1080p to my Mac over SMB (using VLC). 720p is doable but not super smooth.

 

How can I check a transfer speed on a Mac by the way?



If you're not running any other bandwidth-hungry applications at the same time as VLC streaming, launch "Activity Monitor" (in Macintosh HD|Applications|Utilities) and select the "Network" tab (well... button maybe) halfway to the bottom of Activity Monitor's main window.

There you'll enable monitoring of network usage in the underlying graph and you'll see what throughput will be occupied by the ongoing transfer (i.e. most likely you'll see the data rate due to VLC streaming your contents).

With DLNA off I could stream 1080p to my Mac (using Movist, to tell you the whole story... I didn't check with VLC...).

 

Byte
Raymond L
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Re: SAMBA on GFS

I noticed that playing MP4 (720) files via native IPad video player (Goflex app) performs quite well (compared to playing via Good player/buzz player)

 

Byte
tyfoon1
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Re: SAMBA on GFS

Does the GoFlex app still work when DLNA is switched off?? I was under the imression that is needed DLNA on