Comments on: How to watch commercial-free HDTV on Demand without cable

By: admin

admin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:00:35 +0000

Thanks for the tip! Automating torrent downloads is something I’ve wanted to do from the get go, but at the time they didn’t have uTorrent for mac, and was a little hesitant on putting the torrent selection process on auto-pilot.

After doing this for a while though I can see that it would work pretty well to automate the torrent downloads.

I heard they recently released uTorrent for mac, will definitely check that out.

http://mac.utorrent.com/

By: Quickroute

Quickroute — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:20:36 +0000

Nice info on streaming HD using a media box but why wait to read your RSS feed for a new torrent when you can configure Utorrent to directly search and auto download your show in the format you require or you can use Miro or TED to do similar. I leveraged a few other posts and wrote the ‘HOW TO?’ here

http://paddyinba.blogspot.com/2008/10/tv-or-not-tv.html

By: giviz

giviz — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:21:21 +0000

Damn it ! I do not see that NFS and SMB haven’t the same format. NFS will not work WITHOUT the colon, SMB will not work WITH the colon…

Anyway, thank you a lot for saving me several hours, now the connection between TC and PCH is ok.

I test 2 HD movies (1080p BlueRay Rip), that’s fine. It take more time than with NFS when you move from the beggining to 50% (hit 5 on the zapper), but well, it’s totaly playable.

I will make more tests on the coming days, now I need a home theater to play DTS audio.

Well, again, thanks a lot for your help.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:02:08 +0000

Try removing the colon “:” after the “20″ in your url…so it would look like this:

smb://192.168.0.20/Capsule

I’ve only tried the 1080p quality once, and it streamed ok givin that its connected to the TC via the ethernet cable.

By: giviz

giviz — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:55:29 +0000

I really dont understand why, but it doesn’t work :/

Ok, so let’s try again :

It’s SMB and not NFS ( sure you can play 1080p movies without lack with SMB ? )

So, I use that rule :

SMB://192.168.0.20:/Capsule
Username : none
Password : TC password

Capsule is the Volume name of my TC when it’s mounted in Mac Os Finder.

Now with SMB, PCH said that “host is unreacheable” :/

Of course TC is reacheable and my mac can ping both TC and PCH.

Please, can you take a screenshot of your TC File Sharing section configuration ?

I try a lot of configuration, without any results :/

By: admin

admin — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:13:24 +0000

I went back in to look at my configuration, and it turns out I had the format of the url wrong (I’ve updated it in my above comment).

Also, I’m actually using SMB.

My url looks like this:

smb://10.0.1.1/data

“data” is the actual drive name when its mounted on my mac…not the root folder name that’s in it.

I put in no username, and my Time Capsule password…and that works.

Hope this helps.

By: giviz

giviz — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:48:28 +0000

Hi, I buy my Time Capsule and try to access it with my PopCorn Hour, but that doesn’t work :/

TC : 192.168.0.20
PCH : 192.168.0.11
MAC : 192.168.0.2

PCH can access MAC with NFS.
MAC can ping both TC and PCH, so the network is ok.

I use that rule :

nfs://192.168.0.20:/Videos

Videos is a folder on my TC root directory.

I try to add the TC password on the rule (without username), but that doesn’t help.

What rule do you use (NFS exact match user what password (TC pass ?)) and what config do you use in TC ?

I Use in TC :

- Active File Sharing with Time Capsule Password, without Airport access and without Bonjour.

Thank’s for your help.

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:31:25 +0000

Yep, 1080p works great. I connected my time capsule to the popcorn hour via ethernet cable, then in popcorn hour i put in:

smb://10.0.1.1/MountedDriveName

I did however have issues with a couple of HD movies that encoded the audio in surround sound…the video quality was awesome, but the audio just didn’t come though…and I think that its because my HDTV doesn’t support the audio encoding…cause the audio worked fine on my mac laptop.

Hope this helps.

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:09:40 +0000

Ahh, yep! That must be my problem. Will have to check for the firmware update. Thanks.

By: giviz

giviz — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:48:22 +0000

Thank’s for your answer !

Good to know that Time Capsule works with NFS
I’ll buy mine very soon.

For your issue with the audio, I think it’s because your movie have encoded audio in DTS and for now the PopCorn Hour doesn’t decode it (licence probleme, it will be ok in a futur firmware), AC3 works good.

To play movies with DTS audio, you have to use an external decoder like a Home Theater for now. HD TV’s doesn’t decode DTS and probably will never do.