<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Jay Foster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jayf0ster@sbcglobal.net">jayf0ster@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im"><br>I copied the (non-transcoded) file to my Windows machine, and VLC and Media player still fail to play it. MPlayer would. It takes less than half the program length of time to copy the file, so network bandwidth still does not look like my problem. I have tried both a wired and wireless connection with the same results. </div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br> </blockquote></blockquote></div>Could this be problem with samba? Does it need to be configured specially to handle streaming large files? They copy just fine.
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<div>Could it be possible that samba is corrupting the file when you copy it via the network... doesn't seem likely. You could confirm by copying the file with SCP or SFTP <a href="http://winscp.net/eng/index.php">http://winscp.net/eng/index.php</a>.</div>
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<div>I'm actually a bit suprised that it didn't play locally. Next thing to try is connecting the HDHR to the windows machine and watching live tv with VLC. In theory, the file you copied from your backend is just a dump of the stream... so playing back from the HDHR should have the same issue. </div>
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<div>Another thing to try is playing the file on a different windows machine... perhaps yours does have something unusual going on.</div></div>