Spiderbox Home streaming

[dad46]

Hi, has anyone had a messege saying "this file will be supported later" when trying to stream a avi file from my netbook, the file does play but only for a few seconds, can anybody help. thanks

[noypi]

Re: Spiderbox Home streaming

not all avi's use the same codecs. my suggestion is, try several other avi files u have and see if none of them play or some od them do. pls report back what happens.

[fandm]

Re: Spiderbox Home streaming

How big is the file, spiderbox only supports files upto 4 gig because it is a fat 32 system

[redhezuk]

Re: Spiderbox Home streaming

Hi, has anyone had a messege saying "this file will be supported later" when trying to stream a avi file from my netbook, the file does play but only for a few seconds, can anybody help. thanks

Unfortunately I found the Homestreaming quite limiting on the Spiderbox as the other limitation is the inability to change the aspect ratio when the file is being played.

[euroslob]

Re: Spiderbox Home streaming

Most boxes today mainly use TS (transport stream) Don't they?

When I recorded anything that I wanted to put onto a dvd disc I had to first convert the files.

[sataday]

Re: Spiderbox Home streaming

I convert to "XVid MPEG-4 Codec (AVI)" to stream to spiderbox.

[dad46]

Re: Spiderbox Home streaming

Hi Guys, thanks for all of your suggestions, I have tried various sized files, some either just play the audio with no video, and others will play audio and video but only for a few seconds before stopping. I will experiment with different files and report back, thanks

[noypi]

Re: Spiderbox Home streaming

Hi Guys, thanks for all of your suggestions, I have tried various sized files, some either just play the audio with no video, and others will play audio and video but only for a few seconds before stopping. I will experiment with different files and report back, thanks

hopefully in the next spiderbox firmware, all the other codecs will be supported. and even mkv files.

[fandm]

Re: Spiderbox Home streaming

It needs the next generationof spider to be programed for New Technology File System,ntfs or there will still be a problem with file sizes.

[redhezuk]

Re: Spiderbox Home streaming

hopefully in the next spiderbox firmware, all the other codecs will be supported. and even mkv files.

Noypi, that would be nice but I wouldn't count your chickens as I suspect the support for the Spiderbox is likely to reduce in the future. I also understand that part of the problem is that the codecs aren't open source.

[toby69]

Re: Spiderbox Home streaming

i am new to this home streaming bit myself, seems it no good in spiderbox as does not support but what can be gain by being able to home stream. never done this before.

[fandm]

Re: Spiderbox Home streaming

you need this file first

[euroslob]

Re: Spiderbox Home streaming

I do have a good solution to streaming but there doesn't seem any point in making decent replys to post's anymore, mine keep getting deleted!

[cannydo]

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Waste of time streaming on a spider breaks up and loses connection with these boxes. You also must have correct media streamer or it will not work at all. I spend several days looking into it when I first received my box.

[toby69]

Re: Spiderbox Home streaming

well i will forget about it then, as not much use for me thanks all.