I decided to carry out another check on the Humax media client.
I went into admin on my QNAP NAS and had the Twonky server to a complete new database build from scratch. The server quickly rebuilt the Video and Photo folders and while it was busy building the Music folder I went to the Humax 1000S and called up the media client. I found the following...
Video... the client listed all my movies and would play some AVI files no problem, not all.
Photos... the client listed all my photos and displayed some JPEGs no problem, not all.
Music... the client listed the music files so far catalogued by the server but would not play any (MP3s) at all. However, keeping an eye on the server, which was still building, I found that when the number of music files passed approx 10,000 the Humax client crashed and the box rebooted.
The QNAP NAS was still running and the Twonky server still building. I went into admin and there were no errors of any kind.
Conclusion... the client is very clearly running out of memory at around 10k music files and cannot handle that error condition. The actual break point may be lower than this, difficult to judge.
For both AVI and JPEG there is no obvious indication as to why some files will not play.
For me the client is useless in its current form.
At this point, with the Twonky build still in progress, music files at 28,000, I went into my Panasonic Viera TV, which also has a media client. I connected to the Twonky server and the TV played everything I threw at it. Every movie, photo and MP3, including those failed by the Humax.
If Humax are intending this client to simply play back recordings made on another Humax PVR, acting as a server, then they should state this in their spec.
Case rests.
| Wed 3 Jul 2013 11:22:16
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