Working with MP over a wireless lan? (1 Viewer)

[bigfishnz]

hi there guys and girls

i have been using MP for about a good 8 months now never had any problems and find the program much better then MCE, my issue is...... i have now set up my MP over our house wireless, as of now i have mp installed on 3 computers and the mp reading to the main computers shared/public section so all the computers can access the harddrive and movies. i dont use the tv section of MP as i have no tuner and really only wanted it for a movies which works like a dream. All 3 computers can access the movies and play them great no issues there.

what i am needing to know is there a way i can just have Mp on the main computer and the other computers use MP over the wireless lan. i dont intend to run 3 instances of MP just the one but for some reason when i installed the software in the shared public folder the other computers cant run the software? is there something i can do!!

All three computers run there own mp fine while reading the main comuters hard drive for the movies its just i need to update all three computers movie information on each computer.

Cheers

Fras

 

[zamoth]

Wireless is not very good for streaming, but it can work perfectly.

You specially have probleme with :

Bandwidth : You may have problem if ALL 3 computers are using the same wireless ...
Deconnection : If you get a wireless deconnecting times to times, you will have serious problem, as your movie will freeze

So, maybe try with 1 PC ... first

 

[bigfishnz]

i dont have a problem with my wireless my movies stream with no problems at all what i need to now is how to get media portal playing from the master computer too all other computers on the network so i dont need to change each database on each computer.

 

[zamoth]

Ok, I just read carfully again your message. What you want to know, is if you can run MP over a shared folder.

I don't know. Depends on registry informations. But what I know (and U too) is that ONLY 1 PC will be able to launch MP at a time.

Theorically, it should be able to work ... But it needs to be done with caution ... And it should be slow to run and to use ... Try to do this :

On all computer, decide a letter to launch MP ... let's say x: for example

On the first computer :

1) Add a logon script wich looks like this :

subst x: "c:\program files"

This has to be done BEFORE installing MP AND BEFORE launching MP

2) Install MediaPortal on your X: drive

3) share "c:\program files\" with FULL Rights

On all other computer

4) use the subst command only once, and install MP on X:

5) remove the subst command (subst x: /d)

6) and add your shared MP folder on drive X:

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Anyway, this is a very ugly installation ... Might work, but with no garantee ... and if you get disconnected, might break down MP database.

 

[Marcusb]

if it's mostly just that you don't want to have to keep updating movie and music databses, then I think the best thing is to run the MPs as usual, all on their own PCs, and then have a script that will copy the master databases from the main PC to all the others at regular intervals.
You'll probably need to use the same UNC paths for all MP configurations to, so even if the folder is on a local drive, use UNC naming to specify it in MP configuration.

 

[zamoth]

Yet, I think it is not a good idea ... But copy of databases is better for stability. And you might need a DFS like enviornment if you want to do it with least efforts.

 

[haolgen]

I have wireless N network and runn MP TV Series and Moving pictures. The databases and movies are all on a central server and that work fine... the problem i have is on my slower machines i do notice i hiccup in the files every 5-10 mins thisis because MP default player has no buffer and cant handle any wireless interuption (which inevitably happen) when plugged in with cable all is fine. I'm using MP 1.0.0.21149.
Playback of 720p is fine ... 1080p however is another kettle of fish.. (oh and live TV works beautifully on wireless N)

thanks

 

[wenkman]

Hi there!

I would like to do the same as you say "haolgen". Does this server/client environment work with MP, so you just install a server and can use the same database of movies in "mymovies" on all of the clients?

thanks.

 

[haolgen]

Weel to centralize your database on your server follow this edit here.
UserGuides/CentralisedDatabases - MediaPortal Manual Documentation

Then you can watch the same movies and keep te database the same accros all machines.

TV and movies stream fine over wireless n (sometimes i get HD rips pause for a second a couple of times but i havnt had to time to play around with tweaking it)

Anyway

Let me know how it goes!

 

[apoptygma]

I wouldn't recommend doing what the OP is talking about here. Adding that much overhead to 3 wireless connections in the name of saving ~300mb of hard drive space on the other machines is just a bad idea full stop.