Well written.

You mentioned that since you use SMB for file serving that it was up an running in seconds. I have a couple of Vantec NexStar LX File Servers (HD enclosures) that use SMB but with no luck browsing them. The mvix “sees” them but once connected cannot see the contents of the drives. IOW it sees the root but it appears empty. Any idea why?

Much appreciated.

Have you tried taking a copy of my samba file and tweaking it to match your needs.
Are you using Debian?

One problem I experienced was where I could view the folder on Mvix but couldnt see the contents. This sounds similar to yours. This was down to linux software firewall blocking the mvix device. Once I opened up ports for samba everything worked fine.

If you arent familiar with configuring your linux firewall i highly recommend firestarter. This application enables you to easily see what traffic is being rejected by your linux firewall. You can easily create a rule to allow specific traffic just by clicking a button.

You can get firestarter by running

apt-get install firestarter

Let us know how it goes. It does sound like a firewall issue to me if you can view the folder.

Gadgetblogger.

Great review. This box is getting there, but I’m still looking for Nirvana. Not just wireless NAS connected to the hard-wired player, but a wireless player, utilising the broadband wireless network we all now have at home, to stream to multiple clients. Hence, someone sitting downstairs in the lounge could be watching a movie, kids upstairs watching their favourite cartoons, while someone cooking in the kitchen listening to internet radio or their favourite music tracks. Oh, and I’d also like a wireless sound system!

Now I’ve seen various components of these, but nothing as one complete unit. How close is the MX-760HD to providing this all-in-one box?

Regards,

Khurrum

The MX-760HD is merely the start of this. Just as the ZX spectrum was the start of home computing. We will look back on the MX-760HD in a few years and say hey this thing was so slow, lacks this feature etc etc but Ill always remember that Mvix got there first

Thanks.

I currently use XBMC and the only thing that would make me upgrade is to play hd content over the air and I was hoping you could help me out!

Thanks,
Jay.

You may be aware you can download and endode videos in Divx HD format.

You can read more about it here: http://www.divx.com/hd/#faq3
You can view some HD videos here - http://stage6.divx.com - In the search box type HD to search for HD format videos

If you stream these videos over the wireless connection then the quality will be in HD format. I must admit that most movies I watch are in DivX HD format and I havent noticed any significant glitching issues.

Im using Linux with Samba to host my video files and a Vigor2800VG wireless router.

Let me know if you need any assistance.

If you are planning on IFO and VOB files I would definitely recommend direct cabling. The bandwidth involved with these files will be huge. If this is your plan Id probably recommend you just plug a laptop (one that that has s-video output) into your tv and connect to your other pc via UTP cables.

The Mvix is more suited to DivX, Xvid, Mpeg, Avi formats where the video has been compressed to allow streaming without the requirement for a huge amount of bandwidth or processing power.

1. When trying to play videos wireless over the network through the network shares it tries to load the file but hangs, I left it for a good 15 minutes and it never starts. Works fine on the LAN cable connection.

2. When I download a DIVX HD file .avi it will never play, says unsupported file type. Normal DIVX files work fine.

Any help would be much appriciated.

Thanks

Alex