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KarVi
Feb 23, 2015Aspirant
Readynas 104 gives errors during playback via VLC.
I am running a rn104, which is being a little troublesome. It has the latest firmware installed, but ever since I upgraded 6.2.x versions, I get errors playing video files from a share on the Ready...
KarVi
Mar 04, 2015Aspirant
StephenB wrote: Teaming is enabled on my pro-6 (also LACP).
Generally I only see "bad file descriptors" from VLC when I sleep my laptop with VLC open. The messages show up when I wake up the machine, and resume playback again. I haven't seen mid-stream issues with the RN102 either, though that is really used for backup.
Anyway, it sounds like the PC is somehow losing the connection to the NAS. If you keep a windows explorer pane open to the media directory, can you still see the files when the problem occurs?
Is the PC a laptop or desktop? If its a laptop, are both ethernet and wifi enabled?
The computer is a desktop machine with Gigabit ethernet connectivity. I allways have full access to the net and the NAS. I can see all the files while VLC fails, the connection is allways rock solid stable. I can transfer hundreds of gigabyte to and from the NAS, without errors.
And as mentioned earlier, playback with VLC with files on my NV+, on the same computer, through the same network cable, from the same network switch, is _allways_ without errors.
I think that this makes it unlikely that the problem is with the PC or the network connection.
As it seems no-one else experiences this error, I guess I'll have to live with it. Will probably have to replace this NAS with something else, and throw it out.
Perhaps its time for a FreeNas build (or something like that). I work in IT as a profession, so I think I know what I'm doing. It should be easy for me to build such a setup.
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