[mythtv-users] Samba or NFS?

jonr jonr at destar.net
Sun Apr 10 17:49:32 UTC 2005


Xiaotian Sun wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2005 7:33 AM, Sasha Z <kleptophobiac at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I think it's been fixed. I have a das boot recording which is 2.8 GB
>>(director's cut)... and samba has no problem serving it. The downside
>>is that mplayer doesn't seem to be able to seek a file that flipping
>>huge. I'll try nfs and see if that works any better with bigass files
>>like das boot.
>>
> 
> 
> There's an option to enable large file support in mplayer in the configure step.
> 
> Xiaotian

Is samba being mounted with 'mount -t smbfs' instead of 'mount -t cifs'? 
  I had a problem with playing files over 2GB and ripping a dvd to my 
file server until I used 'cifs' instead of 'smbfs'. Maybe I missed 
something.

Jon


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