Enhancing PopCorn Hour and NMT

vectra

Static M.e. wrote: »

Hi Vectra,

How are they going for you?

Im looking to get something very soon but Id love to hear what you think about them.

Thanks

Sorry for the late reply
Was busy watching movies from my Egreat

Delighted with it bud.

The only thing I notice to complain about would be intermittent "Jerky picture" {judder}
Now.
I have not investigated this too much but i could almost swear that it is my Hard drive caching.
I am going to try a different one in it soon so will know better after that, as this one is formatted to NTFS I need to format to ext2 i think to use the facilities in full.
What I will do tonight is put a movie on m8 pen drive and see how that goes
All in all
I am 100% over the moon with it.

My reccomendations?
Go get one.
You wont regret it. :cool:

MediaTank

vectra wrote: »

The only thing I notice to complain about would be intermittent "Jerky picture" {judder}
Now.
I have not investigated this too much but i could almost swear that it is my Hard drive caching.
I am going to try a different one in it soon so will know better after that, as this one is formatted to NTFS I need to format to ext2 i think to use the facilities in full.

When you install an internal drive, one of the threee partitions is used as a swap partition. This allows for smoother playback of high bitrate movies.

Glad you like it

MT

vectra

MediaTank wrote: »

When you install an internal drive, one of the threee partitions is used as a swap partition. This allows for smoother playback of high bitrate movies.

Glad you like it

MT

Aha...!!
I knew I would make a mess of it



Cheers

Wolff

Do you need an internal disk then to play back non juddery Mkv files ?

Would you get the judder from an external one all the time because its NTS formatted ?

So would all your Highbit rate files have to be on the interanal disk ?

Came across something similar on the popcorn hour - juddery on external disk
smooth on internal

The Divx has no problems on either

MediaTank

It helps to have the internal disk for MKV files with high bit rate, reference frames, DTS sound, etc. However, the latest firmware has improved this area greatly so it should not be necessary as Syabas have changed how MKV is streamed with the latest firmware which (theoretically) will fix the issue. If however the MKV is 1080P and encoded above level 4.1 then all bets are off.

vectra

MediaTank wrote: »

It helps to have the internal disk for MKV files with high bit rate, reference frames, DTS sound, etc. However, the latest firmware has improved this area greatly so it should not be necessary as Syabas have changed how MKV is streamed with the latest firmware which (theoretically) will fix the issue. If however the MKV is 1080P and encoded above level 4.1 then all bets are off.

Can you fill us in on the format setup?
I know the Egrat will do it but it is what partition etc files are placed after?

Also
What is the latest firmware?
I know there is some talk RE:
0808
then I have seen
080818

Confused

MediaTank

The MKV playback has been completely reworked, and now incorporates the Haali Media Splitter in the latest firmware. Upgrade to it (081008) if available for the eGreat and you should be good to go if the 1080P content ius within specification. This upgarde fixed a lot of issues with very high definition files for me.

See here for details on the specifications: http://networkedmediatank.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#MKV_files_on_the_Popcorn_Hour_and_NMT_players.

Installing an internal disk allows you to run the NMT applications and so is worth doing. The box takes care of formatting the disk for you so you don't need to worry. Three partitions are created - data (the biggest) for your media files, a swap partition (to increase performance) and a partition for the NMT apps. This also makes it easier to install one of the many jukebox applications on the box.

vectra

MediaTank wrote: »

The MKV playback has been completely reworked, and now incorporates the Haali Media Splitter in the latest firmware. Upgrade to it (081008) if available for the eGreat and you should be good to go if the 1080P content ius within specification. This upgarde fixed a lot of issues with very high definition files for me.

See here for details on the specifications: http://networkedmediatank.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#MKV_files_on_the_Popcorn_Hour_and_NMT_players.

Installing an internal disk allows you to run the NMT applications and so is worth doing. The box takes care of formatting the disk for you so you don't need to worry. Three partitions are created - data (the biggest) for your media files, a swap partition (to increase performance) and a partition for the NMT apps. This also makes it easier to install one of the many jukebox applications on the box.

Great stuff.
Looks like the latest firmware for me then is the 080818

Will post back after the weekend as I am busy to then :cool:

slemons

vectra wrote: »

Sorry for the late reply
Was busy watching movies from my Egreat

Delighted with it bud.

The only thing I notice to complain about would be intermittent "Jerky picture" {judder}
Now.
I have not investigated this too much but i could almost swear that it is my Hard drive caching.
I am going to try a different one in it soon so will know better after that, as this one is formatted to NTFS I need to format to ext2 i think to use the facilities in full.
What I will do tonight is put a movie on m8 pen drive and see how that goes
All in all
I am 100% over the moon with it.

My reccomendations?
Go get one.
You wont regret it. :cool:

Congrats on the purchase vectra.
I was wondering how much it cost you in total? Were you caught for customs?
Was it off this site?
I presume you went for the eg-m31b?

Thanks,
John

vectra

slemons wrote: »

Congrats on the purchase vectra.
I was wondering how much it cost you in total? Were you caught for customs?
Was it off this site?
I presume you went for the eg-m31b?

Thanks,
John

Mo bud.
I actually bought it from Ebay >> HERE <<
Actually delivered very fast.
No customs etc.
Cost me around €270 I think
Well spent i say :cool: