Synology DS 1511+ - More fun

So far, everything has worked like a champ. The Media server is seen by the PS3, and although the PS3 sucks bawls when it comes to format compatibility, when it CAN play something, it does seamlessly.

We ran a blue ray movie off the Synology, to see how fast it could throughput. The router isn't fast enough to even begin to test, I'll have to get a switch and some better networking equipment before I can.

So, to compensate, we watched a blue ray movie WHILE uploading a blu ray, and had two sources pulling and 1 uploading.

No chokes or anything. A consistent, router limited 10 MB/s.

So that was great.

However, if you setup this unit for FTP, make sure to follow synology's instructions and use filezilla, otherwise you'll get frustrated with other shitty FTP programs.

I still like it so far. It's fast, efficient, very quiet, it's amazingly silent for what it's doing, though the clicking is inevitable in any system.

The temperatures are about 98 98 100 100 99 Fahrenheit in the unit itself under blue ray playing mode. So that's really decent. Ambient room temp is 70 Fahrenheit.

HOWEVER

I encountered one problem, but not with the synology DS1511+. The problem is, VLC.

VLC does not seem to support UPnP/DLNA browsing/playing! What the hell!
I googled this, and found either they do not have enabled, since it seems there are builds with it, or it is not working for just windows.
I was able to download XBMC (oh god I hate it) and it worked fine with the synology, no problems, minus I absolutely hate that media player. VLC spoils you, really!

For example, when watching the dark knight on blue ray, we randomly skipped about and sped up/slowed down the playback and added filters. Still good, though seeking took a moment, naturally. But no longer than I would have expected.

Windows XP Pro seems to SEE the UPNP server, but I don;t have any programs that can browse / pull data off it.

This is a crippling problem, and I want VLC to stream from the NAS.

In unrelated news,

I made the candied citrus peel recipe from the "Desserts By Pierre Herme" awesome cookbook I have; And, OH MY GOD they are amazing. I don;t know what I did wrong, if anything, but caramel + orange + candied is absolutely something else. It's incredibly tasty, and super addicting. Once they all dry, I'll coat them in some crappy ass commercial dark chocolate like Hershey's special dark or something. Maybe.

I'm definitely making these things more often. And I'll quantify the recipe so I can replicate it.

-Z