Dave’s Occasional Brainfart

MX-760HD #2

I got NDAS working on my new toy last night using the winpcap method of scanning for the device keys rather than waiting for the email to show up telling me what they were. This morning I got the official keys by email. *shrug*

Anyway, NDAS on the MX760HD is horrible. It’s very very slow. I don’t know why it’s slow (if it’s a network issue with the device itself not getting full speed or if it’s NDAS). But everyone is reporting slow transfer speeds.

As they’ve already got the ability to read remote network shares why didn’t they just enable writing via them as well? a simple samba share or some such since they’re using a custom linux OS.

Meh. It works well enough so far. So I’ll see how it behaves as I try more things.

MX-760HD #1

I just acquired myself a new toy. The MvixUSA MX-760HD

It’s quite a nice little box. Basically it’s a mediaplayer that lets you play the majority of media through your TV. You can either stream your data from a network source or put an IDE drive inside it and dump everything onto that. Supposedly it also takes a USB thumbdrive and lets you play directly from that but I have yet to try it. I will be playing around with my camera tonight to see if I can get it to display the pics & mov’s directly from the camera.

I bought a 320Gig hard drive to put in side it (formatted as NTFS) and got it all working. You can put data on it via a USB link but when it’s plugged into your PC you can’t play anything at the same time.

It also supports NDAS which I have yet to get working (I’m waiting for a key to use it). Which should let me dump data on it via the network.

I did have a few issues getting the wireless working using the latest firmware (1.1.27). I use WPA2 AES encryption with a hidden SSID and the box refused to connect. When I dropped the wireless AP down to WPA1 TKIP & hidden SSID it connects without issues however. I logged a help request with Mvix and will see what comes of it.