I thought I would take the time to post my TViX 6500 movie system, just in case someone was trying to set up something similar.

Hardware:

3)Tvix 6500 firmware 1.3.95 No hard drives
1)Netgear ethernet switch 10/100/1000
1)Qnap 509 pro Nas with 5) 1Tb Seagate Hard drives on Raid 5
1)Vista Computer 4gb with 1) 500 gb hard drive and 1) 1tb harddrive
3)Western Digital 2tb External harddrives Usb connect
1)Apc ups Battery backup system big enough for 45 minutes of power for eveything in my theater room.
plus other Theater hardware and game consoles
Ethernet Cables all Cat 5e
Video cable Hdmi for theater and flat screen
Svideo for rear projection
Denon 3808 Receiver for theater
Sanyo z2000 main theater Projector
Zenith 55 inch 4:3 Rear Projection Tv
Samsong 32 inch Lcd Flat panel Tv


How I use my Network:

My dvd movies are in Video_ts.ifo .vob format, all are Standard def not Blue Ray.

All of my movies are stored on the Nas and all 3 of the WD usb Hard drives. My Nas is maped in my computer as a drive, keeps things nice and constant.
The usb drives have been assigned drive letters, so that if I shut the system down, they keep their same drive letter, regardless of order they wake.


I Have only one NFS Network share on my Tvix Boxes, Point to the 1 tb hard drive of the Computer. On my computers 1tb hard drive, I have 3) files: (1) Main index (2) New Movies (3) Genre.
(There are sub files under those three files). There are no movies in any of these files, instead there are short cuts created as "Symbolic Links" for every movie. "Symbolic links" are created with a program called
"link shell extension".

This allows me to have my movies stored any where on my Usb drives or Nas, and have the Tvix see them as just one Network. And it makes it so the Tvix thinks that there is a movie folder located, anywhere that I create the "Symbolic link".

I use folder.jpg for the movie icons and I have (2) Tvix.jpgs for each movie. The first one that comes up when you select a movie icon is the movie Synopsis, rate, cover and so on, similar to what one creates with the Gui Builder. And the 2nd is in a file called "Cast Members" and if you want to see the cast Names and there role names, you can select it. My Tvix is set to "smart" so that the Video_ts.ifo will start automaticly (to get around the movie starting before one would have the time to see the TViX.jpg, I have my movie in an extra subfile called "play the movie". Selecting "play the movie" in the movie file will start the movie.
The TViX.jpgs and the folder.jpg are created through DVD Profiler, saved with Zan printer to file, and Batch cropped with Corel Paint Shop Pro. Took some time to setup, but it allows me to create anything I want for the movies.

My Computer is a Dell Studio Slim. Nothing really special about it. I have 2 ethernet network cards in it, 1) set to gb for the main network to my switch, and the other 100 mb that I use for my internet connection network. I don't keep my computer hookup to the internet, just when I need it, I enable it. My Usb Hard drives are connected to my computer. They respond to my computer for wake up much faster than being hooked to the Nas.

Well that's my system that I use. I do want to thank everyone on the Mpc Club and Avs forum for all their help. It is amazing the amount of information that you can find and put together, from these forums.

Thanks again

I have a question or two:
Did you verify that the TVIX 6500 actually connect at 1Gbit speed, my understanding the chipset can only support 10/100, this is extremely important for loading picture thumbs when the pictures are 10MB ea.
APC UPS, do you think its safe to feed a near square wave to a expensive Audio Visual equipment?

I have a question or two:
Did you verify that the TVIX 6500 actually connect at 1Gbit speed, my understanding the chipset can only support 10/100, this is extremely important for loading picture thumbs when the pictures are 10MB ea.
APC UPS, do you think its safe to feed a near square wave to a expensive Audio Visual equipment?

I only connect my Tvix boxes to the network switch at 10/100.

I connect my Qnap Nas and my computer to the network switch at 1 Gbit.

I don't have any good reason that I need to do it this way, but it works, and I don't have any issues ripping movies, and watching movies at 1 or more Tvix boxes at the same time.

The Apc ups is Sine Wave not Stepped approximation to a sinewave. This is the same as used on Apc's Audio & video Backup power systems. I also run a separate power conditioner after the Ups unit.

I did notice that my power is now consistent at 120 volts, while connected to the Ups. When I was just using the power conditioner on my regular power, it would range from 118 to 123 volts. And this variance was not by anything else in my house running, but by the time of day, power customer demand maybe.

All said, I am very pleased my power system. With some large power outages about 2 weeks ago, power was constantly on and off all evening. I was processing some movies, while my kids were watching one. Never had issue one out of the backup power.

Let me know if I can tell any more. Thanks