Twonky nas synology
There's plenty of people who have bemoaned the lack of support for MKV files in Twonky it would seem. It plays normal DivX files perfectly well. However, DivXHD is apparently not supported using DLNA.
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As long as the blu-ray player is capable of playing the contained video, it shouldn't be too difficult working with the container format. The important thing is that MKV is a container and not a codec. There seems to be some fairly broad support for different video file formats. Sony's documentation for my blu-ray player (a BDP-S370). This is what I did with my afternoon off on Tuesday!įirst things first. The second option, the one I chose, the harder one, was to sort the problem out. This would certainly do the job but would also mean a loss in quality and, in the event that I get lots more MKV files, be a pain to have to do over and over again. The first was to manually transcode the file on another computer into a format that would work. The CPU in the NAS is just not up to that job! So, what was happening was that the Twonky Media server was trying to transcode on-the-fly into a format that it felt comfortable serving to my blu-ray player. After a quick SSH connection was established I could see that the process “ffmpeg” was pegging the CPU of the NAS. This probably would have carried on the for the entire duration if I'd let it.Ī few minutes later I became aware that the fan in the QNAP had started to run at its maximum speed. After about 30 seconds a 2 second clip of the video played before pausing for another 30 seconds. Although it showed up when I pointed the blu-ray player at it, when I tried to play the file not a lot happened. I received a video of a family event the other week and the file was in an MKV format (or container). I put it down to a lack of support from my blu-ray player but then I came up with a reason to dig deeper. It works well with DivX AVI files but it wasn't happy with several other formats. When enabled it allows me to stream video content from the QNAP to my blu-ray player and watch it on a decent sized screen. One of the features that comes built in with most QNAP devices is a UPNP Media Server, which is actually a repackaged version of Twonky.
Twonky nas synology software#
I do use it to store templates, ISO files and other software along with all of my digital media and documents etc. I don't really use it in my home lab for hosting VMs.
Twonky nas synology ps3#
The Synology had exactly the same files on and worked fine on the PS3 so I wouldn't think it would be anything to do with that.Ok, so it's not really virtualisation related but I thought it needed writing down somewhere. Checked Twonky and it's definitely showing the 24 tracks still. The folders themselves were listed (Root > Artist >Album) but just no files. I then tried to see if the Music would play, tried all the different types of nodes such as Artist, Genre, Folder etc and no files could be found. Went to Videos and the AVI file was sitting there and played quite happily and then came the problem. Turned the PS3 on, searched for the Qnap/Twonky server which it found with no problems.
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Twonky nas synology movie#
I did a re-scan of the folders once the files had been copied across and Twonky reports correctly that there is 1 movie file and 24 audio files so I thought every was ready to go. Before I loaded everything back on to the Qnap, I thought I'd just try a couple of each type of file to make sure it worked (1x AVI file and 2x Albums). I've just purchased a TS-209 to replace a Synology DS-106e but having a problem with Twonky when trying to stream to the Playstation 3.