Suiname
Dabbler
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- Dec 5, 2012
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So, currently my media center setup is as follows:
I have a mac mini attached to my television which is acting as my home theater PC. For watching media, I use xbmc because it is familiar and awesome. I really like how well it discovers my media, and it's easy to use which is important for my girlfriend to be able to use it when I'm not there.
Currently the media is stored on my NAS running freenas 8.3, and all the media is on an AFP share which is seen by the mac mini. xbmc then accesses the AFP share and streams the files on my TV, the machines are both connected to the same gigabit switch so performance is solid. Everything was working swimmingly for the longest time, however, the last two movies I've watched have started showing some issues. A few days ago for the first time I noticed a yellow blinking light on the alert section at the top right of the web admin interface. When I click on it, it would say:
WARNING: The volume Share (ZFS) status is UNKNOWN: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected.Restore the file in question if possible. Otherwise restore the entire pool from backup.
I went to the commandline and input:
Surprising to me that it said the last file I had streamed was corrupt. I did a scrub and cleared the zpool alert, it did not come back. However, yesterday I was streaming another movie, and in the middle of the movie a couple times the stream paused and was stuck and my mac mini appeared to temporarily lose connection to the AFP share (the OS warned me it was lost, but it was so quick it was already reconnected by the time I finished reading the warning). Restarting the stream allowed me to watch the file to completion. Again, the warning light in the admin interface told me that the file I was watching was corrupt, again a scrub cleared up the problem.
So I'm wondering, is this not the best way to stream media from my NAS to my TV? Should I be leveraging something else, like DLNA to do so? Thanks in advance.
I have a mac mini attached to my television which is acting as my home theater PC. For watching media, I use xbmc because it is familiar and awesome. I really like how well it discovers my media, and it's easy to use which is important for my girlfriend to be able to use it when I'm not there.
Currently the media is stored on my NAS running freenas 8.3, and all the media is on an AFP share which is seen by the mac mini. xbmc then accesses the AFP share and streams the files on my TV, the machines are both connected to the same gigabit switch so performance is solid. Everything was working swimmingly for the longest time, however, the last two movies I've watched have started showing some issues. A few days ago for the first time I noticed a yellow blinking light on the alert section at the top right of the web admin interface. When I click on it, it would say:
WARNING: The volume Share (ZFS) status is UNKNOWN: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data corruption. Applications may be affected.Restore the file in question if possible. Otherwise restore the entire pool from backup.
I went to the commandline and input:
Code:
zpool status -v
Surprising to me that it said the last file I had streamed was corrupt. I did a scrub and cleared the zpool alert, it did not come back. However, yesterday I was streaming another movie, and in the middle of the movie a couple times the stream paused and was stuck and my mac mini appeared to temporarily lose connection to the AFP share (the OS warned me it was lost, but it was so quick it was already reconnected by the time I finished reading the warning). Restarting the stream allowed me to watch the file to completion. Again, the warning light in the admin interface told me that the file I was watching was corrupt, again a scrub cleared up the problem.
So I'm wondering, is this not the best way to stream media from my NAS to my TV? Should I be leveraging something else, like DLNA to do so? Thanks in advance.
