I've recently started trying to make mvpmc work on a MediaMVP H3 with mvpmc 0.3.0 and, frankly, can't get it to run reliably. Any help appreciated.
What I am trying to is shuffle play a playlist of ~3000 items (all audio; mostly ogg, some mp3; TV output is not actually a requirement) as a client of a NAS device (an Asus WL-HDD). I really don't want to have to install an entire MythTV or similar. Indeed, if I were willing to go that far (and assuming that I ran Windows), I'd simply use the vendor's software rather than mvpmc. I have had some WL-HDD specific problems (the web server is for admin only and will not serve arbitrary content, the SMB server is SMB-only (Samba 2.0), no CIFS, ...) so, at least until I get to a working configuration I'm running with a desktop PC running Debian Sarge instead. Even in that configuration, I'm having problems: - When using http (Apache 2.0), the sound is very choppy. Peering at the wire traffic is un-nerving; there's an awful lot of ZeroWindow, which is a pretty blunt way of performing flow control for TCP; there are better approaches... - When using CIFS (Samba 3.0), the MediaMVP periodically wedges. - When using NFS, the Media MVP periodically wedges. After several iterations I noticed that, before wedging, it would play in starts, perhaps 100ms of audio followed by 2s of silence. On the occasion that I noticed this, I did manage to login and run ps, although it took 3-4 minutes to do so. I noticed about ten mvpmc processes running (why?) and about fifteen mvpmc zombies (!!). It really did feel as though the machine's CPU was saturating, but lacking the usual tools (no top, no TIME column in ps's output), I was unable to diagnose why. - I did see something about choppy MythTV output being the result of a 10Mb/s limit being exceeded. I'm not using MythTv, but just to be sure, I placed a 10Mb/s hub (and nothing else) between the MediaMVP and desktop PC. The same problems appeared to occur. (For comparison, there is usually the 100Mb/s switch in a WRT56G in between the two devices.) I'm running out of ideas here; have I missed something obvious? - Raz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
