After a 5 hours flight from Hurghada, Egypt, we are now back home (03.15 AM) I will be catching up my e-mail tomorrow ;-) .. no idea how much e-mail (and spam) I can expect after not using, touching any PC for 2 weeks !

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Server was down: Latest php4 upgrade caused php5 to fail on webserver. Needed to de-install php5 installation to have webserver working again, than re-install php5 pkg file for Bluequartz

Webserver working again.

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After getting valueable feedback from beta testers using e-mail and the bugtraq system I’m about to release a new firmware version (Release Candidate).
We do release this firmware with Kernel 2.4 so that’s why you will see 1.09.32 as firmware version
Kernel 2.4 firmware images will be released in the 1.09.xx. range and Kernel 2.6 firmware images in the range 1.10.xx 

Firmware versions in the 1.10.xx range will not be released to the public yet. 

It is the intention to release this version (1.09.32.06) as internet upgrade and as downloadable firmware file from the official website before the end of this week.

New Beta firmware Release (Release Candidate)

• fixed: issue where watchdog could not operate
• fixed: ogg music playback (fast backword to the begin of music file)
• fixed: zoom minimum size is zero
• fixed: Some playlists were not played well
• fixed: In certain conditions MKV file could stutter
• fixed: IMedia could crash
• fixed: zoom button keeps in screen (press zoom, adjust screen and after few seconds icon disappears)
• fixed: DVD cannot display subtitle when there is only one subtitle track (no menu)
• Improved: Recognize playlist by it’s extension (treat as a folder)
• Improved: iMedia music stream robustness
• add new feature: flac support: (note: some FLAC files could give issues: which is under investigation)
• add new feature: increase zoom rate
• add new feature: when playing music enable also the screensaver
• add new feature: support external subtitles for ts, mov, mp4 and wmv, m2ts
• add new feature: support IGMP for UDP streams
• add new feature: Save Samba Username & Password
• add new feature: seek by time. Press 0 to enter 00:00 [hh:mm], if you want to jump to 50 minutes you enter: 0->0->5->0 at the screen you will see: GOTO 0_:__ [hh:mm]” when ‘0′ is pressed (not for DVD playback)

This upgrade is available now. Use the Internet Update function in the setup menu to update to 1.09.32.06 People using beta 1.10.xx.xx should upgrade manually by USB. The update file will be available through the official website tomorrow 15/08/08

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After getting good feedback from various users and testing myself as well I was really unhappy with the way the UPnP server was integrated and causing issues with updates. And not to forget having issues with Playstation 3 and suddenly missing SRT support again (neat feature which is not available within many UPnP servers, so I could get some fame… (I already have cause we do have Kernel NFS ;-) ).

Today a new release for beta testers ..  1.04RC5.

What is extremely important is that after firmware upgrade you NEED to reset the CH3SNAS to factory defaults. If you do not do this than certain scripts will not be updated from firmware into flash.

1. Fixed: users should be able to play 8GB MOVIE files through the UPnP AV server (Especially PlayStation 3 users)
2. Fixed SRT support:  When a DMA is actively requesting for the SRT file the UPnP server gave it and the subtitles were displayed correctly during playback.
3. Fixed & Updated: some users reported that updating the UPnP AV server was not possible, no new files were entered into the database. We have verified the working and we have re-introduced the ‘RESCAN’ button to give users the ability to force a database rescan.

Please be notified that if you modify the SHARE PATH (by default folder ROOT) into a folder which contains a white space the auto-update feature will NOT work

So do not use: ‘Media Video’ but use ‘Media-Video’ or ‘Media_Video’ otherwise the inotify tool will not start. It does not matter if the main shard folder is containing folders with white spaces in its name. Just do not start with it.

Download the 1.04RC5 here

Note: messages recieved upon the ‘kernel’ messages seen is under debugging/investigation. If someone has an easy ‘how-to reproduce’  it could be useful

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Is the following line for mounting samba shares a good one?

smbmount //server/share /tmp/mountpoing -o lfs,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,username=xx,password=xx

Or has someone a better mount line? Like something with CIFS?

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Today i’m upgrading to Wordpress 2.6 .. so some items could not work properly during transition .. stay back, relax and stay tuned till I’m ready

Update: Wordpress 2.6 has bugs (hey .. everyone got them!) I just noticed that uploading my images to a non default folder were not working. Lucky the bug can be easily fixed by uploading a new function.php file

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We promised ourselves to start or end a good day with Champagne or a Cava ;-)

We are again busy with firmware(s) … it never stops ;-)

People do not know what ROT13 is .. I wrote somewhere a sentence, but no-one did notice it yet .. It has a easter-egg / feature / functionality hint in it ..

Testing some features/ functions of the CFULLHDMA after some feedback users

I’ve received some new files which are not playable … it’s good to get a lot content to see if it’s playable yes or no ..

Let’s make it available to some people .. ;-)

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This dashboard widget queries Google Blog Search so that when another blog links to your site it will show up here. It has found no incoming links… yet. It’s okay — there is no rush.

Wierd message in my incoming blog link list ..

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What to be expected to be fixed in next beta firmware?

• Fix NFS is not able to resume and play files after stopping playback.
• Fix DVD menu issue
• Fix MKV subtitle disappear issue
• Fix DVD [LANG] key issue
• Fix AVI mutltiple language srt issue
• Reproduced but probably not fixed  yet: DVD Chapter issue (stuttering)

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I had some severe issues with my server this evening and I had to restart it. Did not want to wait .. so any pending ftp upload: sorry ..

b.t.w. if you upload content for analyse with CFULLHDMA please include your name and/or e-mail or notify me by e-mail cause I see duplicate info on the server and I do not know why this is ..

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