On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:34:38PM -0500, Tom Metro wrote: > If your photos aren't accessible through your UPnP server, the the first > step is that you need to have a network mounted file system that you can > browse through the Filesystem application in mvpmc. See: > > http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/remotedrive > > Then read: > http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/menus.filesystem > > for more information on the Filesystem application. > > In particular, note that when viewing a photo in a directory of photos, > pressing a number key on the remote will start a slide show of the > images in that directory with the specified number of seconds between
This information was very helpful and enabled me to get the filesystem browser facility working to a more useful extent. Many thanks. A couple of observations and related questions: 1. Browsing photo directories containing .jpg files seems to work a lot better with filesizes below a certain maximum file size. For example this directory displayed fine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/photos/nyparty$ ls -l total 6844 -rw-r--r-- 1 rich rich 287327 2005-01-01 20:10 000_0055.JPG -rw-r--r-- 1 rich rich 243464 2005-01-01 20:10 000_0056.JPG -rw-r--r-- 1 rich rich 165768 2005-01-01 20:11 000_0057.JPG ... But this one just displayed 2 pictures and kept switching between the first 2 of 36 pictures: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/photos/nypartybig$ ls -l total 22620 -rw-rw-r-- 1 rich rich 993890 2004-12-31 22:03 000_0055.JPG -rw-rw-r-- 1 rich rich 782891 2004-12-31 22:04 000_0056.JPG -rw-rw-r-- 1 rich rich 517966 2004-12-31 22:04 000_0057.JPG ... Same photos, only difference being that the smaller file sizes had been compressed slightly to serve over the web quicker for family members still on dialup connections. Is this a memory/buffer limitation of the Mvpmc hardware ? If so what is the maximum .jpg filesize likely to be supported ? 2. Previously I hadn't managed to automount the filesystem from my server without a telnet into the mvpmc and using command lines. Editing my dongle.bin.config to the following: rdate -s 192.168.1.1 mkdir /home /etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.1.1:/home /home mvpmc -c 192.168.1.1 Worked fine. Previous problems - a. Previously I tried using the udp option on the NFS mount to improve efficiency (wonder if this is tied in with the .jpg file size limit ?). b. Previously I had tried doing the mount after running the mvpmc command, switching the mount commands to before the mvpmc command may have helped. (Does the mvpmc command not return ?). Richard Kay. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
