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wagb4
Sep 08, 2014Aspirant
Media Applications Recommendations
I seek opinions, recommendations, etc. from users with experience with the applications avaiable for my new RN102 as to which I should use for sending Photos and maybe music and videos from the NAS to...
wagb4
Sep 15, 2014Aspirant
It looks, to me, I have correct properties of the movie file and that the RN102 should play the movie.
I did another refresh and the Poster art appeared - good sign. I am now suspecting the RN102 is just not up to the task of pumping out a MP4 over my network; strange! My network should be capable. I have Fast Ethernet (100 mbps) over cat-5; nothing wireless is in the mix. Like I said, another node on the same LAN with Plex can pass the same MP4 file. I have only DSL at 3 Mbps Internet which I don't expect to support movies, but the LAN should handle it.
The movie file is using H264 and ACC
Movie information in XML format:
I will research the Plex forums and the Internet for ideas. If you come up with other suggestions please pass them on.
Thanks
I did another refresh and the Poster art appeared - good sign. I am now suspecting the RN102 is just not up to the task of pumping out a MP4 over my network; strange! My network should be capable. I have Fast Ethernet (100 mbps) over cat-5; nothing wireless is in the mix. Like I said, another node on the same LAN with Plex can pass the same MP4 file. I have only DSL at 3 Mbps Internet which I don't expect to support movies, but the LAN should handle it.
The movie file is using H264 and ACC
Movie information in XML format:
<MediaContainer size="1" allowSync="1" identifier="com.plexapp.plugins.library" librarySectionID="3" librarySectionUUID="3b623d83-05ca-4051-8760-03b19c66495c" mediaTagPrefix="/system/bundle/media/flags/" mediaTagVersion="1370274120"><Video ratingKey="2" key="/library/metadata/2" guid="com.plexapp.agents.imdb://tt0033045?lang=en" studio="Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" type="movie" title="THE_SHOP_AROUND_THE_CORNER" contentRating="NR" summary="Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal." rating="8.3999996185302699" year="1940" thumb="/library/metadata/2/thumb/1410806542" art="/library/metadata/2/art/1410806542" duration="11850000" originallyAvailableAt="1940-01-12" addedAt="1410730280" updatedAt="1410806542"><Media id="2" duration="11850000" bitrate="1383" width="720" height="480" aspectRatio="1.33" audioChannels="1" audioCodec="aac" videoCodec="h264" videoResolution="480" container="mp4" videoFrameRate="24p" optimizedForStreaming="0"><Part accessible="1" exists="1" id="95" key="/library/parts/95/file.mp4" duration="5925000" file="/run/nfs4/data/Videos/The Shop Around the Corner (1940).mp4" size="1024369100" container="mp4" has64bitOffsets="0" hasChapterTextStream="1" optimizedForStreaming="0"><Stream id="81" streamType="1" codec="h264" index="0" bitrate="1216" anamorphic="1" bitDepth="8" cabac="1" chromaSubsampling="4:2:0" colorSpace="yuv" duration="5924953" frameRate="24.000" frameRateMode="vfr" hasScalingMatrix="0" height="480" level="40" pixelAspectRatio="8:9" profile="main" refFrames="4" scanType="progressive" width="720"/><Stream id="82" streamType="2" selected="1" [b]codec="aac"[/b] index="1" channels="1" bitrate="160" language="English" languageCode="eng" bitrateMode="vbr" duration="5924864" profile="lc" samplingRate="48000"/></Part></Media><Genre id="37" tag="Romance Film"/><Genre id="38" tag="Romantic comedy"/><Genre id="39" tag="Drama"/><Genre id="40" tag="Comedy"/><Writer id="23" tag="Samson Raphaelson"/><Writer id="24" tag="Ben Hecht"/><Director id="22" tag="Ernst Lubitsch"/><Country id="21" tag="USA"/><Role id="25" tag="Joseph Schildkraut" role="Ferencz Vadas"/><Role id="26" tag="Charles Smith" role="Rudy"/><Role id="27" tag="Edwin Maxwell" role="Doctor"/><Role id="28" tag="William Tracy" role="Pepi Katona"/><Role id="29" tag="Margaret Sullavan" role="Klara Novak"/><Role id="30" tag="Sara Haden" role="Flora"/><Role id="31" tag="Frank Morgan" role="Hugo Matuschek"/><Role id="32" tag="James Stewart" role="Alfred Kralik"/><Role id="33" tag="Inez Courtney" role="Ilona"/><Role id="34" tag="Felix Bressart" role="Pirovitch"/><Role id="35" tag="Sarah Edwards" role="Customer"/><Role id="36" tag="Charles Halton" role="Detective"/></Video></MediaContainer>
I will research the Plex forums and the Internet for ideas. If you come up with other suggestions please pass them on.
Thanks
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