NS-K330: 1080p streaming over SMB - possible?

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I wanted to know if anyone was successful in streaming video in 1080p from the 
NS-K330 over SMB.
I tried on a 802.11g network, but the image freezes after a few seconds of 
successful streaming.

I wonder if this is because of the WiFi, or because the ARM processor is too 
weak to handle such big chunks of data.

I'd appreciate to hear your thoughts about this.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mike.kol...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2011 at 12:56

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I think streaming is impossible over lan more than 720p.

Original comment by serhatdo...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2011 at 2:34

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I have the same box and had the same problem. It is possible to watch large 
videos with cca. 6MBytes/sec over LAN, but be sure that during you watch, 
disable the Transmission client. The image freezes due to the heavy processor 
load caused by too tcp many connections.

Original comment by btel...@gmail.com on 10 Jan 2011 at 10:45

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Definitely possible if by streaming you mean using samba protocol. Even when 
running transmission! I have version 1.2 and the hard disk attached is ext3. Of 
course using lan cable and not wifi!

Original comment by gchasa...@gmail.com on 10 Jan 2011 at 8:23

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Yes gchasapis. I mean watching the movies from the box using SMB.
I'll have to try it too as you say it's possible. I'll tell you guys how it 
went :)

Original comment by mike.kol...@gmail.com on 11 Jan 2011 at 6:51

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i agree with  serhatdogan here, dont waste your time trying to figuring this 
out. the lan transfer rate restricts the streaming quality, besides, the 
machine cpu overloads. So might as well just remove the hdd and plug it onto 
your computer, why bother?

Original comment by ted.cho...@gmail.com on 12 Jan 2011 at 10:12

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Hi guys, I just want to share that recently I bought this router from ASUS 
(http://www.asus.com/Networks/WiFi_Networking/RTN56U/#specifications) and, with 
this little baby, my NAS NS-K330 SNAKE OS V1.3.2 (20101130) can stream, over 
Wi-Fi, HD movies (.mkv) with more than 5GB size, perfectly.
I figured out that all the issues with SAMBA over Wi-Fi was due my old router 
(WRT54G) was not able to deal with the traffic, but with this new router 
everything changed, now I can download a torrent and then watch it from the NAS 
over the Wi-Fi connection. I can copy files over Wi-Fi with almost the same 
rate as than over lan cable.

regards. 

Original comment by adrielpr...@gmail.com on 4 Jul 2011 at 2:46

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I'm able to stream 1080p videos perfectly via DLNA (minidlna) and via Samba.

I tested with a video which total bitrate is around 15 Mbps (the highest 
bitrate video I could find on the interwebs). That's roughly 2 MB/s to stream.

My NAS is able to deliver around 4 MB/s via LAN, so it's perfectly capable of 
streaming high resolution videos; and with Transmission running simultaneously!

Original comment by arionkra...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2012 at 2:58

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arionkra, by any chance do you use a PS3 as your DLNA player? I am able to 
stream avi's through MiniDLNA but mkvs....nada :|

Original comment by rsam...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2012 at 5:10

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rsam, I use exclusively my LG 47LE7500 TV as player, and it works pretty well 
for "mkv" files and other formats as well.

One thing to note is that my TV does not support "DTS" audio streams, so I have 
to convert to "AC3" for every video. Beside that, my TV does not play movies 
that have been muxed with "Header removal" compression (using "mkvmerge").

Maybe something like that is happening to you.

Original comment by arionkra...@gmail.com on 13 Jul 2012 at 2:55