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Interested in buying ReadyNAS for use with Tivo
I am interested in purchasing Ready NAS product for use with Tivo.
Is there a ReadyNAS product that is recommended? I only have 1TB of media which is mostly MKV, AVI, MP4.
Does the ReadyNAS actually stream the media or does it need to be transferred to the Tivo before playing?
Please help. Thanks.
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Hi atomarchio,
Good day!
Our ReadyNAS OS6 units supports ReadyDLNA which you can use to stream media on your ReadyNAS to your DLNA players like the PS3, Xbox 360 , DLNA Smart TVs and TiVo. See images below, these are ReadyNAS settings for DLNA.
If you want to get more information, please click here. You can also check out this video on youtube.
If you have more questions, feel free to ask. I'll look forward to your response.
Thanks,
Does the ReadyNas OS6 already come with the hard drives and operating system pre-installed? I only need 2TB.
What is the part numbe I should use for ordering?
Hi atomarchio,
The harddrives are optional, there are models where harddrives are included and models that are chassis only (you can buy your preferred harddrive. NOTE: Harddrives should be part of the HDD compatibility list). The chassis of the NAS has a flash memory where it stores some of the OS, when you insert a harddrive and install the NAS it will be copied onto it. For small home networks, I would recommend the ReadyNAS 100 series and ReadyNAS 200 series.
Here's a tip when selecting a model number, for you to know which one you are looking for (in terms of size) see this naming convention:
Example: Model number RN20222D
RN - ReadyNAS 202 - 200 series 2 - 2 bay 2 - 2 TB HDD D - Desktop drives
This model contains, 2 2TB desktop drives. Total capacity of 4TB (without redundancy), 2 TB capacity (with redundancy).
Thanks,
I just got a NAS104 setup with a Tivo Roamio. It works but it is very limited. The Tivo stream option does not support all of the DLNA files types. I had to use ffmpeg to covert to mpeg2. Basically the goal was to maintain the qualitfy of the original source. If anybody has better settings to use I would welcome the input, I am a total ffmpeg newbie.
ffmpeg -i "MyVideo.mp4" -qscale:v 1 "MyVideo.mpg"
ffmpeg -i "MyVideo.mp4" -qscale:v 1 -crf 18 "MyVideo.mpg"
Once I had the correct file types, the files show up on the Tivo and I could "stream" them. Basically they download to the Tivo but you can start watching right away. Unfortunately I could not rewind or ff, only pause and play worked. Maybe ff/rw would have worked if the download was complete before I started watching...
For Music, the Tivo only supports .mp3's so it won't see your iTunes music as an option.
I spent a lot of time figuring out how to make this work and while it does, I am dissapointed.
I believe Plex works with Tivo Roamio. But you need at least an RN200 series to do real-time transcoding with Plex.
-The Roamio (and ReadyDLNA) both support mp4, so I am thinking your problem might not be what you think.
However, assuming that transcoding to mpeg-2 is required for some reason:
-I'm puzzled on why you are using -qscale together with -crf. My recollection is that -crf only applies to H.264 encoding, not mpg2 encoding. And crf/qscale are aiming at the same thing (constant quality encoding). So you should only need one of them in the command line.
-"Better settings" depends on your purpose. If you aren't keeping the files around after viewing, then I think your settings are fine.
But if file size matters to you, you can try larger values of qscale (say between 5 and 9). That will give you smaller file sizes. Basically gauge the quality by eye for a few qscale settings, and pick the largest qscale that has no visible quality dropoff.
-You can certainly get smaller file sizes still (doing 2-pass encoding, and maybe even trying to transcode to another MP4 (H.264/aac audio).
Yes, Plex does work with Tivo Roamio. I was going to give that a shot next and I'm not expecting real-time transcoding with the N104.
As to DLNA, I copied various mp4's to my N104 and the Tivo only could see the mpg's (The mp4's don't even show up in the list). If anybody has a ffmeg command to produce Tivo mp4's, I'd be happy to try it out.
I did verify that FF/RW doesn't work, even when the file is fully downloaded on the Tivo. Maybe this would be resolved with a better mpg conversion?
Thanks for correcting my mistake, the commands should have been:
ffmpeg -i "MyVideo.mp4" -qscale:v 1 "MyVideo.mpg"
ffmpeg -i "MyVideo.mp4" -crf 18 "MyVideo.mpg"
But I really have very little idea what I'm doing here... ffmpeg options are bit overwhelming. Some other more "standard" options I tired produced very poor video quality, so I ended up with the above. But your are correct, I wasn't keeping the files around after viewing. They end up being larger than the source file.
Thanks for the help.
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