Month: October 2008

CFULLHDMA: during firmware upgrade I lost power

Oh oh .. you are upgrading your CFULLHDMA and suddenly in your home there is no power anymore ..

Is there a way to fix the CFULLHDMA? There are 2 ways to fix a bricked CFULLHDMA

If you see a Blue Screen, than you have the opportunity to fix the bricked CFULLHDMA by using a USB drive/stick with upgrade.bin. Instruction are displayed on-screen.

If the CFULLHDMA is giving a BLUE SCREEN, the kernel is still running and you can fix your CFULLHDMA.  The device is searching for the upgrade and it will upgrade.

There is a small change that this way will work as kernel root files can be damaged too easily when a firmware upgrade fails (due to power failure).

The other way to fix the CFULLHDMA is by using a serial console cable. (I can do that) .. ;-)

More about this using console cable will be explained when needed or requested.

Important for all CFULLHDMA beta testers

CFULLHDMA beta testers have to register themselves again for beta-testing (and be able to download beta firmware versions) at the CFULLHDMA PAGE. If you did not receive any e-mail this morning from me your e-mail address was lost totally. Only a limited amount of people could be informed.

The new way of subscribing yourself for beta testing gives you more control with what e-mail address you want to subscribe or if necessary unsubscribe yourself without my interaction.

Pre-Announcement: CFULLHDMA beta release 1.09.54

New beta release firmware will be released soon with this changelog:

v1.09.54

  1. Fixed: iMedia page could not be accessed on Vista
  2. Fixed:  Some AVI file could not be played due to not supported audio stream
  3. Added: Show total subtitle and total audio track number
  4. Fixed: No sound when switching from DTS to AC3in DVD sometimes
  5. Fixed: Sometimes a video could freeze
  6. Fixed: MKV Video with OGGvorbis Audio not sync
  7. Fixed: [BGM] hotkey did not work on AVI file
  8. Added: Support MKV VC1 video
  9. Fixed/Added: Give a work-around to get IP number when failed

beta testers will be informed about this beta release when it’s available.

Update: the support for MKV VC-1 video did not make it in this firmware release unfortunately.

 

 

NZBGET & enhanced UNPAK script

Last week I installed NZBGET and used a simple postprocess script unpacking downloaded usenet stuff. I found another script from ‘Ydrol’ .. which was created for the PopcornHour. Altough this script is not perfect and have same ‘issue’ as the older postprocess script this script is very enhanced. It is smart, it makes connection to imdb and it puts stuff is special folders .. WAUW ..

The script has 1 bug: if you download multiple DVD’s in one NZB and they have same folder structure (like *.rar and video_ts in it, than the files will be overwritten, so names of rar files were (are) not taken into consideration

I have created a tar file with all the original files and the files I use for the CH3SNAS. It are the modified unpak.cfg & unpak.sh files. Put the 2 files in the /ffp/etc folder, check the file properties for unpak.sh alter the nzbget.conf file to process unpak.sh (not postprocess.sh)  and restart nzbget ..

I have altered paths so that you use /mnt/HD_a2/usenet/* folder the files to be stored.

Downoaded files will be put in a category name, an unsorted folder or movie, erotica etc.. hardlinks will be made for New or Recent stuff .. WOW .. 

try it and if you have some suggestions to fix the ‘issue’ or any other changes you might worth to mention, do not hesitate to use the comments ..

UPS & Server

Perfect.. de UPS heeft vanmiddag de server in de lucht gehouden

Ik wilde een lampje aan doen en die zei: POEF! .. en direct een piep van de UPS .. Rustig in de meterkast de schakelaar omgezet en jawel hoor .. alles mooi nog in de lucht .. Mooi simpel UPSje en het blijft draaien als een tierelier ..