[kehkou]

Thanks for your correction, I was absolutelly wrong!!! 🙂 For the interest of others, there is info in the Wikipedia pages on SMB, Samba and Netbios over TCP/IP.

What should be implemented to allow for computer names in WiiMC is the Netbios Name Service, which is not part of SMB. This service is implemented in Samba (called nmbd) but this is currently not part of Mplayer nor WiiMC. As you said, implementing it is possible, but implies a huge amount of work. I am sorry that I have not the time nor the expertise to contribute to this. Thanks for your coding effort and your kind answers! 🙂

[kehkou]

Sure, but DNS does not resolve Samba PC addresses if they are used in the IP field, does it? At least, I tried it in MPlayer-CE and it did’nt work: If I use my Windows “PC-NAME” instead of its IP, WiiMC cannot access the shared foolder.

The SMB listener is a part of the SMB implementation that (correct me if I am wrong) listens to SMB messages in the network and maintains an internal table of associations of SMB names, shared resources, and IP addresses. It would be nice if at least this listener was implemented, to prevent the commented problems. However, I understand that it is a huge amount of work; I don’t know if part of the Samba project might be used.

[kehkou]

Although I understand the overhead of this protocol, I would like to point out the benefits of it being implemented:

– If a single computer contains multiple SMB shares, all of them can be used without having to add them manually one by one.
– If the computer is configured via DHCP (probably, the common case) the IP address might vary from one session to another. Even more, there are routers that assign a different IP address after a computer is restored from suspension (even when MAC binding is present). This makes the system malfunction in these cases in which the IP varies. By contrast, the SMB name remains constant.

Therefore, there is a clear benefit of implementing the system with SMB name resolution: it always work, regardless of network changes. Please consider that most people using it will probably not know how to configure a static IP address or a MAC binding in the DHCP server.

In any case, thanks for considering it! 🙂

[kehkou]

Hi,

I have tried the 1.0 version and it properly shows the subtitles. There are two issues to consider:

– There is an option to enable/disable the subtitles in the configuration
– The subs can be enabled/disabled with the B button (the one in the back).

Regards

[kehkou]

OK!!!! Thanks for your answer. Let’s wait!!

🙂

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