Re: [Discuss] Mythbuntu on VMWare slow

2015-03-25 Thread aldo albanese
on a similar topic, I'm trying to mount an nfs drive to a linux box.  I'm learning and reading about nfs and mounting but each article I read they mention a different way to do it.  I would like to mount QNAP NAS drive to the Ubuntu VMserver in which in the directory there are real time stream

Re: [Discuss] Verizon FIOS TV and HDHR digital tuner

2015-03-25 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
I have an HD HomeRun Prime (the CableCard version) that I am using with Comcast. I bought it; it's not rented from Comcast. (I also don't rent a cable modem or router from them.) It took three tries and a technician visit to get them to activate it successfully. I wasn't charged for the visit

Re: [Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread aldo albanese
Thank you, very much appreciated. Aldo On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 10:58 AM, Dan Ritter d...@randomstring.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 02:22:50PM +, aldo albanese wrote: on a similar topic, I'm trying to mount an nfs drive to a linux box.  I'm learning and reading

Re: [Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:14:16AM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: aldo albanese wrote: ...in one article someone suggested to use TCP instead in the syntax instead of UDP. In /etc/fstab: hostname:/share /local/mountpoint nfs ro,tcp,rsize=1048576 1 1

[Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 02:22:50PM +, aldo albanese wrote: on a similar topic, I'm trying to mount an nfs drive to a linux box.  I'm learning and reading about nfs and mounting but each article I read they mention a different way to do it.  I would like to mount QNAP NAS drive to the

Re: [Discuss] Verizon FIOS TV and HDHR digital tuner

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Metro
aldo albanese wrote: ...stream files from HDHomerun (a TV Verizon box that stream tv in real time). Are you saying Verizon actually supplied you with the Silicon Dust HDHomerun digital tuner? I presume that would be the HDHR version with a slot for a CableCard descrambler. (Or do you just mean

Re: [Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread Richard Pieri
On 3/25/2015 11:14 AM, Tom Metro wrote: So rsize=1048576 is going to increase efficiency for large files, but what's the advantage for using TCP instead of UDP? There is none. -- Rich P. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org

Re: [Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: aldo albanese wrote: ...in one article someone suggested to use TCP instead in the syntax instead of UDP. In /etc/fstab: hostname:/share /local/mountpoint nfs ro,tcp,rsize=1048576 1 1 Assuming a readonly mount for large media files. So rsize=1048576 is

Re: [Discuss] Verizon FIOS TV and HDHR digital tuner

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Metro
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote: Comcast doesn't really support the HD HomeRun at all. Their people were pretty much clueless about what it even is; That fits with what I've read on the MythTV user's last back when I was following it. So not surprisingly, no change. I don't think the company

Re: [Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread Tom Metro
Dan Ritter wrote: In this case you aren't really streaming... Sure. Early versions of MythTV worked this way, with live video streamed via an NFS mount point. (Newer versions stream over a TCP protocol.) The application thinks it has a reliable file and will not be expecting to have to do

Re: [Discuss] Verizon FIOS TV and HDHR digital tuner

2015-03-25 Thread Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
So long as the FCC mandate for CableCards remains in place, Comcast and Verizon can't completely eliminate support for them or even restrict them to specific devices. They can only keep doing what they are doing, which is making life difficult for people who want to use them. The long term fate of

Re: [Discuss] NFS mounts

2015-03-25 Thread aldo albanese
Tom,Sorry about the misunderstanding, Verizon only gives the Cablecard not the HDHomeRun.  It works great with RPI2, Kodi and Mythtv on Virtual Server.  I had to confess, since I'm not even close to be a beginner with Linux I had some problems with the entire system. I.e. RPI would not handle