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Hi,

Just wanted to share a hint for people that want to stream movies to a PS3.

All movies I had that contained x264 codecs embedded in .mpg files stopped to show up when I migrated from B2 => B3. In order to solve this:
In the file /etc/mediatomb/config.xml find the section extension-mimetype ...

In general you don't need to trans-code the movies, but by some strange reason the PS3 can't handle the .mkv format (I'm not an expert on how media servers works or the protocols used there).
But I know that it generally always works if I just convert my .mkv files into .mp4 files, that is a fairly ...

Hi guys, a short summary first.
I managed to get the transfer rate over NFSv3 from 7.65MiB /s to 8.75 MiB/s by removing iptables.

I timed the transfer speed by downloading a file over NFSv3 (default settings).
The copying was done via the following command
cat <big_file_at_nfs_server> /dev/null ...

Just checking if anyone has found something interesting that might boost up the NIC performance of the Bubba2 a bit more.

I was surprised with how lean the installation of my new Bubba 2 was. Worked as a firewall/server/media-server directly.
Now can i finally throw the old vibrating PC that was standing in the closet!