Step 3 - Network only test

As promised, i've done severals test tonight at home using hdmi and 37" lcd full hd TV.

I've faced a lot of difficulties to setup the share with my XP. The Bone saw the share will exploring (working but need to kying user/password each time and first acces is a much longer), but using the setup to define a share Bone never success in connecting. Must be a XP issue since using a samba share with mac os i do not face same issue!

Anyway Bone read any of the file i give to him except those from my canon camera (MJpg i think). Sounds weird.

I manage to play a 12go mkv ( avatar see picture) over the network but a simple mjpg failed :-(

Not a big problem but i will report it to the support to see how they handle user request :-)   

I will also ask for more language setup since movies with multiple audio stream start in english.

You can these setup but you have choice between english, chinese, romania,... :-)

I also manage to test Cover art presentation.

It's not as pretty as Plex but  look quite good.

Page rendering is slower but since it's over network  i hope that from hard drive it will be faster.

This mode is not effcient when browsing simple folder since there is no label until you select it, kind of blind navigation .. will report this issue too.

I use Ember Media Manager to setup the folder and the picture in each folder. It's really a good app to manage meta-info on movies 

I also try the resume movie function just works like it would.

So far i'am really happy with bone, it does what i buy it for, with success and not too much bugs.(hang one time while testing network share setup)

Next test will be the Music player with cover art too !

Stay tunned !