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Topic: Dolby DSP100 Show Player stops suddenly whilst playing trailer
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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 05-12-2018 10:00 PM
Yes, if the switches between the laptop and the DSS are also gigabit, and ideally, support jumbo packets as well. Earlier in the spring I was sent to a 4-plex that was complaining of slow transfers between the TMS and the screen servers "ever since we opened." The reason why was that the media network switch was an ancient 10/100 one, and the volume of traffic going through it was also likely overwhelming it. Once it was replaced with one of the Zyxel managed gigabit switches that we typically supply with new installs, the transfer speed increased from around 6-7 hours to transfer a feature, to about 20 minutes.
I tried the ./formatStore.sh command for the first time on a DSL100 last week. I needed to outgest some stuff from it to a USB stick quickly. Unfortunately, it didn't work: it said "Starting to format...", then the USB stick flashed for a few seconds, then the command prompt came back, with no message saying that it had actually done it. The left arrow button in the network content tab was grayed out, and so it can't have formatted the stick properly. The DSL was on the latest software version (4.9.1.18).
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Leo Enticknap
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posted 05-13-2018 10:45 AM
quote: Kris Verhanneman
Hello, a simple way to format the drive under "linux" is to run a try version of ubuntu on your regular pc. This should not affect your normal windows OS. No scripting or passwords required.
Yes, but there is a gotcha.
If you use GPartEd under Ubuntu, there is one aspect of the ISDCF spec for DCP distribution media that it won't let you do, which is to define an inode size of 128 bytes. GPartEd will use 256, and there is no way to change that.
To create a compliant volume in Ubuntu, you need to open a terminal window (ctrl+alt+T), and then (with elevated privileges):
mke2fs -t ext3 -I 128 /dev/sdXY
However, the DSS100 is OK with 265-byte inodes in my experience, and so if Peter just partitions and formats a drive using GPartEd, it should be OK. Remember to create a new partition table as MBR (not GPT) first, and then your ext2 or ext3 partition, occupying the entire drive. If you choose ext3, the formatting stage can take some time, depending on the size of the drive.
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Carsten Kurz
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From: Cologne, NRW, Germany
Registered: Aug 2009
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posted 05-14-2018 07:53 AM
Have you been successful with exporting DCPs to that NTFS disc? Reading and writing are two different things - especially since your DSS100 is on an outdated software version. Many servers happily read DCPs from NTFS discs, but, again, depending on their software version, will not write to NTFS.
If that is too much trouble for you to format an ext2/ext3 disc yourself, you may be able to find someone who is able to format a disc under Linux for you, according to the mentioned specs. It may be, though, that your DSS100 also needs some specific access rights settings before it can actually copy files to that drive. I don't know if these things are documented somewhere, and if, wether they hold true for your 4.3.5 software version.
Yes, this is a bit complicated. Due to a special pecularity with the Dolby, an export done on the DSS100 to a disc can only be reingested onto another Dolby. That is fine until your only plan is to reingest that content onto the same DSS100 after a software upgrade or fresh install. If you plan to reingest these backups onto your new Doremi later on, that will fail. In that case, you need to connect to the Dolby from another computer with an ftp client and copy the generated packages content - that will give complete DCPs that can be ingested on any server later on.
Yes, all that is not intuitive, unfortunately...
Honestly - since your DSS100 now seems to work flawlessly, why not just leave it as it is and wait for the Doremi to show up? You may of course still need some way to transfer/backup your content if you want to transfer your 4 new discs from the DSS100 into the Doremi...
Without these discs to be reused in the Doremi, you could actually connect the Doremi and the Dolby with a network cable and transfer the content directly, as the Dolby runs an ftp sever, and the Doremi can act as an ftp client. Do you know already what type of discs will be in that Doremi server? Capacity?
All that said - it doesn't appear that you're in a hurry currently, so, take your time, and prepare well...and if possible, keep that DSS100/DSP100 as a spare. I don't think you can make much money out of it in Australia anyway, with the 25fps issue, and SMPTE DCPs coming up now.
- Carsten
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