Freenas 8 and Popcorn Hour C-200

[Robin Mitchell]

I have successfully setup and configured Freenas 8.0.1 RC1 for use as a File Server for Media files.

ZFS Pool of 6x2TB disks in RaidZ configuration.

Cifs/Samba Share is accessable from Network, and am getting Transfers of 85MB/Second to/from a connected Windows 7 PC.

Trouble I have now is that when I try to access files from my Popcorn C-200, the PH fails to play. I know there are issues with the PH and Gigabit Networks, and have set to 10/100 within the PH Menu. (With the C-200 set on Auto/Gigabit, picture stutters after about 2 mins)

I used to use Freenas 0.7.1, and the C-200 together without any problems (with the C-200 set at 10/100, rather than Gigabit).

A bit frustrated now, as I am not sure what to try next.

Any ideas?

 

[ProtoSD]

Not sure this will fix your problem, but RC2 just came out yesterday. You might give that a try and see if it helps.

 

[Robin Mitchell]

Thanks, I saw that last night and will give it a try. I'll let you know how I get on.

Regards
Rob

 

[howi42]

Did you find a solution for your problem ?
I see something similar with FreeNAS and an AC Ryan Mini2 mediaplayer :

Connection to PC is always excellent, to the mediaplayer in many cases just bad.

Thanks, Wolfgang

 

[Robin Mitchell]

Ended up configuring popcorn to use NFS TCP. This allowed the two to work together without stuttering. I did have a thought that it could be the fact that the Freenas machine was connected to a switch, which was connected to a router, to which th popcorn was connected, whereas the PC was connected directly to the switch, but haven't tested this theory yet as it works with TCP.

Best of luck. Regards

Rob

 

[howi42]

Ok, thanks,

I tried the NFS way, but it is even worse.
In addition, the NFS shares seem to have problems with codepages.

- Wolfgang

 

[temm]

Same problem here,

0.7.2 was working fine with smb and nfs shares.

Installed 8.0.2 and i'm getting write speeds up to 85MB/s from my mac with afp. NFS shares work fine with pch (a bit of delay to start) but smb is either not starting playback (spinning wheel/cursor) of starts after a while with continuous shuttering.

I played around with cifs settings in freenas but with no luck.

Teo

 

[nite244]

I have a Popcorn Hour C-200 as well and it's been working great with an SMB share via a Win2k3 server (single drive too, not multi drive like my FreeNAS setup), but the SMB share from my FreeNAS server was starting to stutter on high bandwidth streams (Blu-ray ISO). Low to medium bandwidth streams (such as DVD ISOs or less) would work fine over SMB on FreeNAS, but the Blu-ray ISO were just not holding up. From info in this thread, I've tested the following on my Popcorn Hour with my FreeNAS server:

- SMB - works fine for most scenarios, but high bandwidth streams (Blu-ray ISO) were stuttering
- NFS - nearly unusable for Blu-ray ISO (almost instant stuttering), didn't test anything else
- NFS-TCP - so far, seems to work great without any stuttering

The NFS-TCP setting is the Popcorn Hour C-200 (not FreeNAS). I just used a NFS share on FreeNAS and used Browse in the Network Share section on the Popcorn Hour to add the NFS share (I also had to add a username/password on the Popcorn Hour, but that was due to my NFS share setup on FreeNAS)

I hope this helps anyone running into similar problems. Now I just hope it continues to work for me :)