Guide: Setting up Recording to a PC or NAS

[zaradoct]

Hi, how can I play my recorded movies that I recorded in my PC by the Dreambox to my TV?

[Norway321]

Thanks

Thanks alot for useful information!

[dpierik]

File location

How can i change the location where de files or safed?

[satlasertv]

thanks so much

[rayyen]

Great guide, thanks!

[beenieman]

WOW!!
Hello to everyone from Barbados in the Caribbean.
This is a great tut!!

[harky]

like to ask if i use telnet (rounter) to rec will it slow down the rounter connection???

[glenn_ost]

nice guide

[Beppe71]

Hi
I need help to set up my NAS and record on it. I have a DM500C with DK V.1 immage. I have been able to mount the NAS and even play movies from it but I have problem to record movies on it. If I try to record I get this message "Record failed due to inaccessable storage".
I have checked the record paths and tried two different set up: /hdd and /hdd/movie.
Can you please help?
Thanks
BP71

[trampjuice]

Recording...

I am not sure about DK1.1 but heres my experiance.
I have a another linux box on the network (192.168.1.x) and its got a whopping great HDD attached to it. I have setup a samba share on it called movies.

After many months 'upgraded' to a neutrino image which was great for everything but NAS recording, I have just reflashed an old Pli Jade image today and have been amazed at how great it records AFTER CHANGING SOME SETTINGS.

Record settings:
Description – Media
CIFS, 192.168.1.14
Mountpoint : /media/cf
Server Directory: movies
Username : root
Password :xxxx
Options : soft, rsize:8192, wsize:8192

The key thing I found was to take off all the options you think will make it faster - like sync, linuxext, rw etc..and just leave 'Soft'; Its miles better at reading and writing to the NAS. In fact its near perfect now!!!!!! I think part of the problems with recording are dm500 resources - with a 6mb Image like PLi Jade its prob running far less processes and so has plently of CPU left to record nice and fast even while you are watching the thing. With a 8MB image like Neutrino you have to turn off the cam and even then the result is garbled.

Mountpoint is also called 'client directory' (Its the mount point for the dm500!)

[trampjuice]

One more thing

Don't forget to change your 'Recording and Playing Settings'
Recordings on --> '/mnt/cf/movie'
or you will be looking at a blank screen and wondering where all the files went and why you can't access them for hours like I did!

[trampjuice]

By the way - does anyone know how to

Turn off the cam on Pli Jade images on record, or someway to kill non core processes when its recording - it would prob. record even better then with more CPU left over. (maybe via command line kill ps etc...)

[trampjuice]

Yet another thing

Make sure that your server/NAS directory is read write - i.e. chmod 755 on it or under windows right click and change permissions to make it a share. Then check your share permissions work so you can read and write a file to it.

The other key thing is to check that your filewall is not blocking traffic!
You can test reading and writing from the share from the dreambox by opening up telnet and logging into it.

Form the command line -

mount -t cifs //192.168.1.1/hdd/movie /media/hdd -o user=admin,password=admin

check its mounted properly with 'mount' again.

(obvoiusly replace with your username and pw)

With this you should be able to test that reading and writing from the dbox to the other computer works - that eliminates a lot of problems and leaves only the details of the images setup to worry about!


Then mount the

Hi
I need help to set up my NAS and record on it. I have a DM500C with DK V.1 immage. I have been able to mount the NAS and even play movies from it but I have problem to record movies on it. If I try to record I get this message "Record failed due to inaccessable storage".
I have checked the record paths and tried two different set up: /hdd and /hdd/movie.
Can you please help?
Thanks
BP71

[cameronr]

This is my first reply to a forum. I found this "guide " very helpfull

[techno_konan]

thx for the DOC