[mythtvnz] Media Player Frontends?

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Nick & Ann Read <nick.read at engineer.com> wrote:
>> An update in case anyone was interested. I managed to get on of the Hisense
>> units (MP800H) for $50 off TradeMe so thought it was worth getting to
>> experiment. After a bit of playing around with MythTV recorded HD samples,
>> and a firmware update, here are my conclusions:
>>
>> Pros:
>> Very quiet and power efficient front end (apparently <18W but I didn't
>> measure)
>> Cheap :-)
>> Plays TV3 and TVNZ HD very well, no artifacts, sound was fine (analog, HDMI
>> or optical SPDIF). No issue with MPEG2 from DVB-S or PVR350.
>> Even played the AVCHD lite video files from my Panasonic TZ7 (ZS3)
>> Works off SMB network shares or uPnP
>> Runs embedded Linux, so in theory at least should be expandable/flexible in
>> features
>>
>> Cons:
>>
>> No myth frontend scheduling, recording categories, deleting files etc
>> Playing off SMB shares, it won't read symbolic links (eg the pretty
>> directory, but tv & video recordings are otherwise fine)
>> Playing off uPnP, it can't jump in time, REW, or FFW beyond 2x. Didn't work
>> with Myth uPnP but FUPPES was OK.
>> No jump during playback (eg 30s forward, or 10s back)
>>
>> The last point is pretty much a killer for me right now. Assuming I find a
>> way around the symbolic links issue (any ideas?), it is possible to FFW up
>> to 32x, or jump to specific times in the file, but it really sucks compared
>> to just skipping forward a few times to get past adverts.
>
> I disagree, I use sticky keys in my frontends now, which speeds past
> the ads. I prefer it to a jump.
>
> As for symlinks, is the device mounting via the cifs module or the smbfs module?
>

Reading man smb.conf,  follow symlinks should be on by default on the
server/backend, but check that it hasn't been switched off.