Ok, so after much headaches and playing around ive got my video files on my FreeNAS share now displaying and working properly. Iformation here was sourced from a lot of places.
The movie folder structure on the FreeNAS box is is…
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All Movies
Anastacia
folder.jpg
vob
vob
etc, etc
21 Grams
folder.jpg
vob
vob
etc, etc
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“All Movies” is setup as a share on freenas with no username or password and is called “movies”.
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Put net.mounts and samba.app.bin onto the root of the USB stick and plug into WDTV box.
note: net.mounts was created with windows notepad and contains only…
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xmount //192.168.2.4/movies movies cifs
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The IP Address is the IP of the FreeNAS box. Thats it.
Now when i go to Local Drives->USB1 all my videos show up as thumbnails.
Also and this is the real benifit, if i press “Play” it plays the vobs. It does not display the folder.jpg like it does with the standard firmware. So i also dont have to navigate into the folder where the vobs are and find the right file to play.
Maybe this was easy for a lot of people and this is a useless post. So be it, i can live with that.
Until WDTV techs fix the issue im staying with B-Rads solution.