[clue] HAPPY PI DAY!

[Jim Ockers]

Hi CLUEbies,

Thanks Mark for the link to the unofficial manual.  I was reading 
through it and since I don't have a pi yet I was wondering about this 
from section 8.2 of the manual:

8.2 Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a NAS Box

We’ve already seen how the Raspberry Pi can be configured as a media centre. One great way to serve media files to your Raspbmc device is with a NAS box – another easy to setup project (assuming you have a second Raspberry Pi).

Although not suitable for streaming HD videos (due to the use of the Samba server software), a Raspberry Pi NAS box can be set up as a low-power NAS (see, what NAS is).


Why would the use of the Samba server software make this unsuitable for 
streaming HD videos?  I use samba all the time on other Linux boxes for 
all kinds of file server jobs including but not limited to streaming HD 
videos.

I was wondering if anyone out there knew why they would say that. What 
is it about the pi, or samba, that makes it unsuitable for streaming HD 
videos specifically?  Is it just the overall device slowness?  USB 
latency or something else?

Thanks,
Jim

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Jim Ockers, P.E., P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
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On 3/16/13 9:02 AM, Mark G. Harvey wrote:
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>
> RASPBERRY PI : THE UNOFFICIAL TUTORIAL
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> http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/great-things-small-package-your-unofficial-raspberry-pi-manual
>
> This might be a good starting point ... before purchasing books.
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>     Excellent! Thanks Tripp.
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