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Why even bother with DLNA/UPnP? just get up the Netgear to use a normal file sharing protocol like SMB/Windows Sharing. Both XBMC and the various native Windows players will support that.
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Most likely you can enable both SMB and DLNA. I've never heard of a NAS that made a user choose between them.
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(This post was last modified: 2012-03-18, 18:33 by Hellcat.)
Forgive my lack of experience with NAS. This is the first time I've used one. Starstream is correct and now I understand what he and Ned are saying. That is, my NAS (a Netgear ReadyNAS Ultra 2 Plus) uses CIFS, which in the Mac OS X world is referred to as SMB. That's something I just wasn't familer with. Under services available on my NAS, I have CIFS, AFP, and HTTP enabled, while NFS and FTP are disabled. The NAS is DLNA compliant (not something you can enable or disable).
So now I've just got to play around with WMC and WMP a bit with some solutions I've found for MKV files and see how that works before I load and experiment with XBMC. I'm sure the latter with be supiorior in performance and experience, but I just want to see what I can do in Windows as a baseline for comparison and to satisfy my own curiosity.
BTW, what version of XMBC should I use being that this is my first time using XBMC?
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Well, SMB was formally the official name for it even on Windows, but CIFS is the new name for it. XBMC will still refer to it as SMB.
You might as well jump on the latest XBMC v11 (Eden). It's on Release Candidate 2, and a final release should be coming very soon. It's more than stable enough for daily use, and it will mean you won't have to figure out the changes between v10 and v11. Just check out the beta link on the download page.
The other bonus of using a normal file sharing protocol is that XBMC will be able to use all the library features (cover art, summaries, etc) with it. XBMC can't do that with DLNA/UPnP because the file paths are dynamic (though such meta-data can be transmitted via the protocol if the DLNA server support it and has that data).
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I'm using AppleTv , Windows 7and Linux OS as my players and my Media server is Amahi running on Fedora14 and all my movies in that server are 720p and 1080p MKV files. I do not have any problem at all.