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Mcgreag:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on October 05, 2011, 11:41:27 AM ---have you tried turning your main PC into a FTP file server?
http://filezilla-project.org/client_features.php

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As MPC doesn't seem to support streaming from ftp I would have to predownload everything we want to watch and as I said a few posts up that doesn't fit very well with our usage pattern.

We have 2 meetings per week where we watch anime. For one of them we have a fixed schedule with stuff decided weeks in advance. For that I am currently use a thumbdrive to transfer a few weeks in advance. It works well because I have to make the schedule and playlist in advance anyway. For these meetings it's very important that everything works so I will keep transferring things in advance. But I will probably use the internet connection to do so instead of the thumbdrive once it's up.  So for this the details are not important, just need someway to transfer the files.

The other meeting is the reason to have the collection with full access to all of it. We just sit down and see if we can find anything interesting in the collection. This means opening a file on whim and watch a few min, maybe jumping back and forth a bit to see if it looks interesting. If it does we'll watch it, if it doesn't we will check something else. On an avg night we might checkout upto 20 different titles. To have to first download the hole file when it can be up to 5-6gb just to do this is not very practical. Even if I can max out the connection we are looking at upto 40min for a large 720p movie.

kitamesume:
^ try this for being a resourceful, download the anime you want to watch first then download the next one in the background while watching your anime >,> it should be done in 20mins @ 3+ MB/s no? (3MB/s x 60sec = 180MB x 20mins = 3.6GB)

edit: well you're giving yourself alot of headaches =/ i cant help you with that, theres alot of solutions here already but you've pretty much turned them down.

if you're being smart then using a wifi lan dish connection would be the easiest thing with a little bit of investment, you wouldn't need to get another internet line as well, the cost of operation is just about like using a wifi router because the powersource is the wifi router/card itself, no need for a booster.
note: if you think how the hell does a dish get to be the same cost operation with a wifi router/card then heres a short example.
a router with 10watts output has to output 380° of range, excluding the spherical range, if you compress that range it into a dish's range to lets say 20° then the output of the dish should be 19times more dense and powerful, now if the 10watts router can only reach 200meters at best then the dish should be able to reach 3800meters minus the losses.

the 2nd practical use is turning your main PC into an FTP server and access the files from there, you'll have to have at least a 24megabit line to get those 4GB+ files on your club in 20mins. oh and for a buffer, just get an external drive and put a couple of animes in there, there after download the rest while playing everything inside the external drive.

Freedom Kira:
Mm. Windows (or Samba) shares over VPN is probably the ideal solution. If you ever get it working, let me know what you did.

EDIT: Doki seems to be testing out some new streaming feature here. Maybe you can ask them for advice?

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