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Kroozbox - PVD to media theatre solution

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Chelli:
Ok after viwing a youtube video of the pocorn mour Media Tank think thats not like D_link Dsm 520 Media center at all so don.t seem to fit the needs I was thinking of
sinch the PCH has it's own idolated hard drive contained within it and possibly can access the web in a way or ways that mine can't
 my system has 9 hard drives attached 5 of which are totally dedicated to my music and video collection  enclosed in a separete server case and share a sata mulyiplexor and using just a hard drive listing is really boring
looking thru 500 plus tirtles  in a Dos format without things such as alphabetical listings or by genre or descriptions or graphical displays
krooxebox may work fine as a web based system on the pc but it is a far cry from I what I hoped it would
and how often do I watch or even want to watch videos on my computer screen only
unless it can adress the web functionality of the DSM 520 and other similar models or get a video card with an hdmi or compononet output that I can transfer the computer to an available componoent or HDMi port have little use for it

Chelli:
I.d like to know if the startme.bat or installservices,bat can be placed inWindows startup so it automatically loads when does
 also when trying to play a video or audiofile just get an empty webpage and nothing plays Do I hsve to assign it a Media player and if so where do I do that

Nono:
Sorry for the delay,

An NT service exists so the program will automatically starts when Windows is starting up. You don't need to put the service or the STARTME in the Windows 'startup' folder.
Just run INSTALLSERVICE once and Kroozbox will start automatically each time Windows start (you don't even need to log in).

Now, there are some specifics to Kroozbox running as a service (look at the 'overview...pdf' documentation for details). It needs the proper credentials to access the music/video if they are located on a network drive. If they are located on local drives there is no issue and you can install as a service without more configuration. However, for debugging purpose, I suggest to make Kroozbox work as a simple application (with STARTME) first - make sure that everything is working and only then make it run as a service.

Your other problem is that you see Kroozbox user ineterface on the PCH or on your PC browser but you cannot start the movie!? That's a comon problem. It probably means that Kroozbox is unable to find the media using the location specified in PVD.
Try to make it work in the browser first (http://192.168....:9008) <-- put Kroozbox IP address in there.
Check the link assign to the movie play link. You should see something with "&media=..... " inside the link. This is the location that Kroozbox will use to get to the movie. Be sure that Kroozbox have access to that location. If the movies are entered in PVD from another machine then where Kroozbox is running from, you may have to do a link relocation in Kroozbox. If your movies are localed on multiple drives you should use the 'PVDLinkRelocation.properties' file located in the template root folder. If you have only one drive you can set the value of 'dbaseMediaRoot' and 'localMediaRoot' located in the kroozbox.properties file located in the root of your template (explanation provide in the file).

Another way to see what is happening is to set the 'debug' flag to 'true' in the corresponding Kroozbox.properties (located in the root of your template location) and restart Kroozbox with STARTME. Check the screen output when you click on the Play link (from browser or PCH). Kroozbox will tell you what is wrong - you can also post the output here so we can help more.

Make sense or are you lost?

Chelli:
 you lost me
tall /Ican say is the video link appears correct
the address bar  of the blank screen says
 my ip add.9008/&media=G:/Tinker Bell/Tinker Bell/Tinker Bell.avi which is where the file is stored but no video player starts only the blamk webpage
  I need to know where I set the default video player up to play it

Nono:
I don't have a DSM520 to test Kroozbox with. So, my help would be limited.
There is NO place to select your player. Kroozbox is HTTP based and as such is expected to behave with any box that can stream through HTTP.

It seems from the DSM520 specs that it should work. Make sure that you can play that file properly without kroozbox (with the default DSM520 interface).

You could try to force UUEncoding on the link... it might work:

* Open the kroozbox.properties file located in your template folder.
* Change the value of the 'UUEncodeMediaLink' parameter from 'false' to 'true' (without the quotes)--> UUEncodeMediaLink = true
* Restart Kroozbox and test.

You could also try with a very simple link (like G:/TinkerBell.avi )... without any spaces or none-english characters.
I will check if I can dig up more information on the DSM and development.

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