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Can you be more specific? Judging from your mediatomb post you are using Linux? Does this happen with music too? Can you test something for me?

Firstly try increasing your mplayer cache. Run this in terminal:

If that doesn't help, try this. Install this client, ssh into your tablet and start knots with knots2. Start playing a video and you should see the stream address in terminal. Press ctrl-c to kill knots2 without stopping the stream. Then run mplayer -cache 1024 "address" to view the stream with MPlayer. Let me know if it stops then too and if it prints out any error messages. Also run the command again to see if the stream is still running and it was just MPlayer that stopped.

I just installed this tonight on my WinXP machine and it's working really well. The video quality is better than orb. And it's nice not having to rely on a 3rd party server to stream stuff from my PC to my N800. Great job!

I'm thinking I should take the plunge myself and try to install Knots later tonight.

This sounds too awesome to pass up on.

This sounds ridiculously awesome, I have to test this tonight.

I updated the wiki instructions for Windows so if you had problems getting it to run, please try again with the new instructions.

Well, I wouldn't say that I exactly took the plunge. However, I was able to wade in it's waters a little bit the other day.

Here's a screenshot:


Nobody better be giving me any grief either over trying to watch a little anime. It's the only cartoon series I've ever watched so back off!!! *lol*

Anyway, this is a pretty slick design application packaged with an awesome concept behind it.

Still a lot to understand about what it can do and how to make it function correctly.

For those with an intense computer hard drive filled to the brim with media files, this is something to definitely consider.

As for myself, I've only got one TV series and almost no music on my computer.

Dear lord, I hope this doesn't turn into a new, debilitating addiction.....

I can't really afford another one.

I cant download the server for linux.

strange. i have no problems reaching the git server, so it might be something on your side.

Alternatively, you can get the zip'ed up server files from here : http://ugz.ath.cx:1415/knots_nix.zip

@ addison: if you've got a DVB card (or stick) attached to your computer, you can use knots to stream live-tv from VDR (i think knots also supports streaming from mythtv, which is more popular in english speaking countries)

Coincidentally perhaps? I am having touble with the OSX server client. The download appears to be about 4K, but neither of my unzipping tools recognize the zipped file.

Sorry, it seems my SheevaPlug's sdhc card broke down. Please use git to get the server.