ReadyNAS Duo/NV v2 (ARM)available for testing

[Dalidah]

Installed on de duo V2. From my initial testings it works flawlessly.

Great job!
Thanx!

[mherger]

> Just out of curiosity: are these newer models able to transcode (or at
> least downsample) streams without collapsing?

What transcoding are you particularly interested in?



That's while doing 48/24 flac -> wav. There's no lame pre-installed...

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Michael

[sebp]

What transcoding are you particularly interested in?

Specifically, the ones you'd need when streaming HD FLAC or ALAC files to the legacy players, ie 24/96 FLAC to 24/48 FLAC and 16/44.1 ALAC to 16/44.1 FLAC.

That's while doing 48/24 flac -> wav. There's no lame pre-installed...

Hard to tell if it's good or not, as there's no re-encoding involved in your example (uncompressing FLAC to WAV isn't very CPU intensive, by design).

I guess Netgear equipped their newer models with an arithmetic coprocessor?
That really was the weak point with the previous SPARC model...

[mherger]

Transcoding 16/44 ALAC to FLAC:



No fun with 24/96 FLAC though:



Load varied, but it was always very high, leading to hiccups when eg. using the web UI.

[ciarpame]

Just received my new NV+ v2, I will install LMS in the next days.

Should I simply install it as an addon? What if I want to upgrade to a newer nightly build? Uninstall and then install again?

I'm asking because there is a annoying procedure you are asking to do when installing/upgrading on readynas netgear (http://logitech-en-amr.custhelp.com/...ail/a_id/12125). But I can't do that since CleanSqueezeCenter is not yet available for v2 hardware. Should I just ignore it?

Thanks

[mherger]

> Should I simply install it as an addon? What if I want to upgrade to a
> newer nightly build? Uninstall and then install again?

Do NOT uninstall, as this would remove your preferences. Install on top of
the existing installation.

> I'm asking because there is a annoying procedure you are asking to do
> when installing/upgrading on readynas netgear
> (http://logitech-en-amr.custhelp.com/...ail/a_id/12125).

That procedure imho was rarely ever used. But by documenting it support
thought they could eliminate a few calls. It's rubbish. And that script
will not even run on the v2 boxes.

> But I can't do that since CleanSqueezeCenter is not yet available for
> v2 hardware. Should I just ignore it?

Yes.

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Michael

[ciarpame]

That procedure imho was rarely ever used. But by documenting it support
thought they could eliminate a few calls. It's rubbish.

I spent a few hours of life while updating SBS/LMS this way during the years. Glad to know it was for a good reason

Thank you very much for your fast reply.

[virgiliomi]

Yeah, I also followed that process more than a couple of times in the MySQL days for SC/SBS. I certainly have no intention of following it going forward though, since MySQL isn't used anymore anyway.

[calvinhoppes]

Is there already a possiblity to install LAME on a Readynas v2?

[virgiliomi]

Is there already a possiblity to install LAME on a Readynas v2?

I think your post on the ReadyNAS forum will probably get a response (and possibly an add-on package) faster than this one will.

But I don't know if the person who made the LAME add-on (super-poussin on the ReadyNAS forums) has an ARM-based ReadyNAS yet... he hasn't ported any of his add-ons over to it.