AC Ryan Playon HD!

Anyone here using Thumbgen and TVIXIE?

I stopped using YAMJ and trying out the above programs to build my jukebox.
 
unwired said:
Anyone here using Thumbgen and TVIXIE?

I stopped using YAMJ and trying out the above programs to build my jukebox.
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I had a look at Thumbgen as well, looks really cool. But as far as I can see, Thumbgen doesn't give you a jukebox option?
 
Roger.Wilco said:
I had a look at Thumbgen as well, looks really cool. But as far as I can see, Thumbgen doesn't give you a jukebox option?
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correct. but you can use thumbgen to fetch your data and then use Tvixie to make the jukebox.

or use Tvixie to scrape data and do the jukebox.
 
What exactly is the jukebox bit??

I know about the thumbnail creators, but not sure about the jukebox bit
 
Anyone else here buy the wireless dongle?

I have the Dlink DSL-2740U wireless router and the dongle, yet if i want to copy a movie to the player it maxes out at 2.5mb/s, so i dont think i am getting the full 300mbs link.

Anyone have any advice on where to start?
 
remybfg10k said:
Anyone else here buy the wireless dongle?

I have the Dlink DSL-2740U wireless router and the dongle, yet if i want to copy a movie to the player it maxes out at 2.5mb/s, so i dont think i am getting the full 300mbs link.

Anyone have any advice on where to start?
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From the AC Ryan forum :

In light on the recent feedbacks regarding the slow network speed reported when using our Wireless N Dongle, I would like to advise users on the actual throughput of a 802.11n network.

Wireless Networking has all the complexity of traditional wired networking with the additional complications of signal strength issues such as radio interference and barriers, as well as additional overhead related to wireless transmission that commonly halves its real world throughput over the theoretical raw data rate.

As such,
- 802.11b has a theoretical speed maximum of 11 Mbits/sec with a typical transfer rate of around 4.5 Mbits/sec (0.5 MB/sec) with an ideal signal.
- 802.11g has a theoretical speed maximum of 54 Mbits/sec, with a typical transfer rate of around 23 Mbits/sec (2.5 MB/sec) with an ideal signal.
- 802.11n has a theoretical speed maximum of 300 Mbits/sec, with a typical transfer rate of around 74 Mbits/sec (9.25 MB/sec) with an ideal signal.

Fast Ethernet has a theoretical speed of 100 Mbits/sec (12 MB/sec)
Gigabit Ethernet has a theoretical speed of 1000 Mbits/sec (120 MB/sec)

Users can also read up on more information via wiki at this location,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11

Please note that the max net bit brate of 600Mbits/sec is based on the finalised 802.11n standards with a throughput of 144Mbits/sec.

Back to our wireless N dongle specifications, it supports MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) technology with 1 Transmit and 2 Receive, which translates to a maximum of 150Mbits/sec transmit and 300Mbits/sec receive in theory.

Now with reference to the above transfer rate for 802.11n (300Mbits/sec), a typical transfer rate of around 74Mbits/sec (9.25MB/sec) with an ideal signal, our wireless N dongle should be able to have a transfer rate of approximately 40Mbits/sec which is around 5MB/sec (1Mbit/sec = 0.125MB/sec)
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabit_per_second#Megabit_per_second

Please note that you will not get a wireless N transfer rates if you connect to a wireless G router or neither if you connect to a wireless N router with WEP or TKIP security.

5 Ways To Fix Slow 802.11n Speed
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30664/228/
1. Use the Correct Measure
2. Use Draft 11n Clients
3. Don't Connect Draft 11n and 11b/g clients to the same router
4. Use WPA2/AES
5. Don't use Channel Bonding

Some test results with iperf. You can also download iperf and run it on a command prompt, I'm using the following parameters, iperf -c IPADDRESS -i 1 -t 180 -w 200K, you can also type iperf --help to see the available parameters. I will try to provide more test results when I am back to work on the 29th. I'm actually on vacation now... :grinning:

Average transfer rate of 4.59MB/sec in NONE security mode


Average transfer rate of 4.52MB/sec in WPA-AES security mode

Average transfer rate of 2.47MB/sec in WEP or TKIP security mode


The above test is performed with our wireless N dongle on the Playon!HD over a TP-LINK TL-WR841N wireless router.

Based on the test report, users should be able to transfer at rates of approximately 5MB/sec and above, depending on the network environment and configuration.

Please take note that this article remains as a guide to our wireless N dongle transfer rate. Should you have any problem arising with your networking speed, please email to our tech team at [email protected] with your network configuration and transfer rate attained, we will try our best to look into it.

Hope this article helps.
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This part seem to correspond to your speeds : "Average transfer rate of 2.47MB/sec in WEP or TKIP security mode"
 
Can anyone help me with Yamj please?
I ran the installer and it scanned my drive which took about a day, everything completed however on the new Firmware on the Playon HD, there is no "jukebox" tab.
Any ideas?

Thanks
 
marine1 said:
Can anyone help me with Yamj please?
I ran the installer and it scanned my drive which took about a day, everything completed however on the new Firmware on the Playon HD, there is no "jukebox" tab.
Any ideas?

Thanks
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The latest beta firmware does have it, which is what I am using. I recall having to do it differently with the previous firmware but for the life of me I can't remember now.
 
I dont know what i've done but now i am getting between 96KB and 146KB per second :rolleyes:

Tomorrow i need to troubleshoot this step by step...
 
The problem was lying with my AC Ryan, i reconfigured Connection 2 and it is now working, how do i now delete Connection 1, thats my next to do list
 
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