2011-05-29, 18:05
I've been using samba on my ubuntu server machine to share out video to my ATV2. But, I've read some posts that make me think that's not the best way to do it (mainly because of buffering due to protocol overhead, I think).
I'm on a local network, with no need to share out to the world (ie, security is not a concern). As noted, the serving machine is an ubuntu server, not a hardware nas, so I can pretty much do what I want.
So, the question is... If I'm going to switch from samba to something.. What's best? http? ftp? Don't switch at all? I've played with http, but it *seems* that library scans, at least, are much slower than samba; no idea about playback yet. But, blowing out my apache logs makes me a sad panda.
I'm on latest unofficial nightly (5/16/2011) if that matters.
I'm on a local network, with no need to share out to the world (ie, security is not a concern). As noted, the serving machine is an ubuntu server, not a hardware nas, so I can pretty much do what I want.
So, the question is... If I'm going to switch from samba to something.. What's best? http? ftp? Don't switch at all? I've played with http, but it *seems* that library scans, at least, are much slower than samba; no idea about playback yet. But, blowing out my apache logs makes me a sad panda.
I'm on latest unofficial nightly (5/16/2011) if that matters.