USB storage dilemna

[linsladeboy]

I am having a bit of a mare getting this receiver to recognise and play video files(MP4)
It recognises and plays video files copied on my Lexar 32GB flash drive no problem, but I get error message "no playable files found " with any other make i.e Sandisk, Kingston etc..
I have cleaned and formatted 3 seperate USB drives to fat 32 on my pc before copying files(same files as on Lexar) to drives but nano wont recognise any of them.
Drives are recognised when I check "storage devices" in receiver menu so have have come to a dead end on what to try next!

[judge]

When in the movielist, press yellow for location & select the USB stick.

[linsladeboy]

Hi judge, thanks for reply but how do I access movielist if I can't drive contents?

[linsladeboy]

Sorry about typo, I meant to write "can't access drive contents"

[linsladeboy]

Ok, for those of you that may be interested( which doesn't seem to be many by lack of response;) I somehow have found a strange solution to problem.
I did a short live tv recording to one of the usb drives that showed" no displayable files" error message, took out and re-inserted drive and low and behold receiver picked up just recorded file and also all other video files on drive:thumbsup:
I did the same procedurewith a couple more different make of usb drives that receiver would not recognise and they are all now working ok. Not sure if it's a vix image( I am on 153 build)or a Technomate problem as I have only had receiver for a couple of weeks and came with image pre-installed.

[cactikid]

usb are they setup to ext3-4 and show mounted,i was having issues with recordings but it turned out epg was going to harddrive and 1 recording went to usb and would not play stuttered.using a 1tb toshiba external powered,had to change network mounts as it showed usb got switched,reset them and all good.

might be a driver issue but if you want to record externall powered mounted one is best.

[linsladeboy]

Hi Cactikid, reading your post I am thinking that perhaps my usb slots are probably not setup correctly.
One is set to media hdd which I use to back up vix image and settings on a usb drive that is permanently connected to receiver and other to media usb which was the one giving me problems.
What is option ext 3and 4? I have seen it in menu options, but vix manual doesn't give any instructions on this so have left it alone( this is my first linux box so am being a bit careful)

[cactikid]

ok both my usb for epg and external hdd are setup to ext3-4 like in mount manager you see both external hdd and usb setup and what it should say on this

[linsladeboy]

ok both my usb for epg and external hdd are setup to ext3-4 like in mount manager you see both external hdd and usb setup and what it should say on this

Hi mate, I appreciate your help and support but you have lost me:eek:
Don't see " choose where to mount your devices" anywhere in vix image menu?

[cactikid]

blue button on remote-vix--mount manager- it scans for devices and should list both usb and hard drive-green button -setup mounts and you should see as above.

[linsladeboy]

ok, thanks. Appreciate your help, easy when you know;)

[cactikid]

somethings you know somethings you dont and have to ask we are all learning:thumbsup:

[Larry-G]

ext3, or third extended filesystem, is a journaled file system that is commonly used by the Linux kernel. It is the default file system for many popular Linux distributions. Stephen Tweedie first revealed that he was working on extending ext2 in Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem in a 1998 paper, and later in a February 1999 kernel mailing list posting. The filesystem was merged with the mainline Linux kernel in November 2001 from 2.4.15 onward.[2][3][4] Its main advantage over ext2 is journaling, which improves reliability and eliminates the need to check the file system after an unclean shutdown. Its successor is ext4.


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3

The ext4 or fourth extended filesystem is a journaling file system for Linux, developed as the successor to ext3.


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4

Basically ext3 and ext4 are the best formats to use with your receiver for recording TV shows and movies. If you use external drives you can use the windows fat32 format but that is limited to 4GB so if your recording goes over this it will be split by the system, for NTFS you need to install a driver or the drive may not be recognised properly.



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[linsladeboy]

Hi Phoenix,
Thanks for taking the time to explain, now all starting to make a bit more sense to me:thumbsup:

[robsunited]

A bit dim when it comes to this stuff. I have a usb flash drive into my SE containing my backups, epg, and some recordings. Currently it is in FAT32 format. Would it be more beneficial to format (if I'm correct in my thinking that means initialising it through the box menu) into EXT3 or 4 or should I just leave it as it is? Many thanks for taking the time to read this.

[abu baniaz]

If you are recording to it it is best to have device ext file system. You must initailise (format in windows terms) as youhave mentioned. Ext file system does not have the filesize restriction that fat32 has.

Please be aware that you wont be able to write to a device in ext file ystem it using windows computer directly. There are applications to allow you to read.
You must remove the USB device when flashing by USB.
It is always a good idea to have a backed up ready to use image ready to flash in case things go awry and you are not in the house.

[robsunited]

Spot on again abu. I'll make the change tonight.

I use Filezilla to ftp onto the drive. I never use Windows directly to put things on it.

Good advice re backups etc, from your advice when I first got the box I do regular backups and save them on another pen.

Again, as per earlier advice from you, I am aware of the flashing protocol re having this usb drive out of the box before flashing.

Many thanks for your ongoing support abu. :cool:

[abu baniaz]

Just in case you were unaware, you can navigate to your receiver using "My Computer/Windows Explorer" and transfer files. No need to use Filezilla if you don't want to.

[robsunited]

:cool: Thanks for that. I wasn't aware no. By the way. Initialised tonight and all going well. Cheers :beer_toast:

[robsunited]

Just in case you were unaware, you can navigate to your receiver using "My Computer/Windows Explorer" and transfer files. No need to use Filezilla if you don't want to.

Still using ftp. Don't see my receiver in Windows Explorer. Pleased to say (fingers crossed) I've had much better results with my recordings since initialising to ext4.

[birdman]

Still using ftp. Don't see my receiver in Windows Explorer.You'd need to install and configure Samba for that.

[abu baniaz]

A version of Samba has been included in image for a while.

Maybe workgroup names need to be checked.

[robsunited]

Was missing a letter from the Workgroup name. Simple mistake had me tearing my hair (what little I have left) out :p Thanks guys.

[birdman]

A version of Samba has been included in image for a while.OK. But it won't work until you've configured it (which I don't do as I don't use MS Windows, so don't use CIFS, so have no smbd process running).

[abu baniaz]

Have to disagree. Most users use windows and the workgroup name was changed some time ago to be Microsoft's default so that it just works.

workgroup = WORKGROUP
Obviously you cannot have a solution that fulfills everyone's individual circumstances. But in this case, the majority of users should be fine without any configuration changes.

[birdman]

Have to disagree.Not sure what about. All I was saying was that, AFAICT, it doesn't run unless you first configure it to run. However - a further check shows it runs out of inetd, so won't run unless something tries to access it (and when I do it does run).
Sorry for the mis-information.