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30-11-2008
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My System: a sky mini dish + a Dreambox 600S with Gemini- 430 and CCcam 2.0.8 |
hi, i am considering buying a harddrive for my dm600 as i have failed to setup a cifs mount as discussed in another thread. Does anyone know if i can ftp divx, avi, xvid files etc. to the hard drive and play them is there a codec to be installed? Thanks | ||
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It might be cheaper to burn the files to a CD or DVD media and play them in any DVD player with DivX support. Burn to rewritable media so that you won't have a big stack, unless you want to keep them as backup. Surely you have a standalone DVD player? They are dead cheap nowadays. | |||
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Blog Entries: 1 My System: DM7020S ~ DM500s ~ sg2100 ~ Gemini  If he were not a wizard, from head down to the root, you would have got to worry-your DB only boots | It can't play any of those formats. You can stream them from a PC running suitable software but it's easier to play them in a DVD player that can handle all formats, as HB suggested. | ||
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My System: a sky mini dish + a Dreambox 600S with Gemini- 430 and CCcam 2.0.8 | Yes point taken but i want to record from my tv so thats why i was going to but the harddrive plus i have failed to mount a cifs mount and the streaming with VLCf cuts out in the middle of the movie i havent tried that other streaming plugin that you recommened MHKU. Am i likely to have the same problem with that streaming plugin? Also its hard to believe that there is no codecs for the dreambox that will allow you to play these formats after all it is like a little computer isnt it? | ||
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My System: DM 600-S, AB IPBox 9000HD, Moteck SG2100, Fracarro Penta 85 dish, + some puters | If you dont want to burn to DVD disk, You could also use a converter like ConvertXtoDVD to convert the DivX or whatever files. The Dreambox should be able to read the resulting VOB files. Or you could us the DVD player feature/plugin in the blue panel to play as a complete DVD. It works a treat  I thought you already had a hard-drive installed, I highly recommend you install one regardless of playing Divx files, it will be money well spent. | ||
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My System: a sky mini dish + a Dreambox 600S with Gemini- 430 and CCcam 2.0.8 | Yes I considered buying one a while back i will purchase one now. i was thinking of purchasing a 30gb hard drive do you think that would be sufficient for recording sports etc about 15hrs recording? Out of interest what size is yours and what size do you recommend Thanks | ||
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My System: DM 600-S, AB IPBox 9000HD, Moteck SG2100, Fracarro Penta 85 dish, + some puters | I have a 40G drive which allows for around 20 hours worth of recording. If the drive gets full, I move stuff to my pc, I have it setup so that I can also play the files on the PC via Dreambox . You'll get roughly 1 hour per 2 gig, so 30G would be enough for around 15 hours.
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My System: a sky mini dish + a Dreambox 600S with Gemini- 430 and CCcam 2.0.8 | Ok sounds good how do you set it up to play files from pc on dreambox is there some time of plugin or is that using the cifs mount? | ||
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My System: DM 600-S, AB IPBox 9000HD, Moteck SG2100, Fracarro Penta 85 dish, + some puters |
Add the following line to the file, /etc/automount.cfg, Code: nfs -fstype=cifs,rw,soft,udp,nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,user=dreambox,pass=pass ://192.168.1.2/k K is a second shared harddrive on the PC that I use for video / pictures / music. e.g. //192.168.1.2/YourMediaFolder Or have a look at the attached image. Go to Blue Panel / Extras Setup/ Automount The share on the PC will be mounted to /automount/nfs on the Dreambox. | |||
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