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Media Applications Recommendations
I seek opinions, recommendations, etc. from users with experience with the applications avaiable for my new RN102 as to which I should use for sending Photos and maybe music and videos from the NAS to...
Stephen,
I installed Plex on my RN102, the one test movie I added to my default Videos share (where I told Plex to find movies) is enabled for DNLA. The one movie file is MP4 file type. Attempting to play the movie in Plex gives me an error "Media server does not support transcoding". The info for the movie says it is not optimized for Web. Is there a setting in Plex I am not seeing? I would think this Plex build would support MP4 and MP3 (audio) files at a minimum.
The movie file on the NAS does play in VLC on a Linux computer when accessed via the file manager (open in VLC).
Also, some meta information (poster, cast, ect.) for the movie is not being fetched from the Internet. Does that work for you and is there a setting to get that to work?
I have Plex installed on another Linux computer with more horsepower and it works well, plays media (same movie file loaded to the NAS) and fetches data from the Internet for the movie. I understand the Plex build for ReadyNAS is probably scaled down from the full version and is obviously a dersion of Plex, but the basics should work.
Any suggestions - thanks
I installed Plex on my RN102, the one test movie I added to my default Videos share (where I told Plex to find movies) is enabled for DNLA. The one movie file is MP4 file type. Attempting to play the movie in Plex gives me an error "Media server does not support transcoding". The info for the movie says it is not optimized for Web. Is there a setting in Plex I am not seeing? I would think this Plex build would support MP4 and MP3 (audio) files at a minimum.
The movie file on the NAS does play in VLC on a Linux computer when accessed via the file manager (open in VLC).
Also, some meta information (poster, cast, ect.) for the movie is not being fetched from the Internet. Does that work for you and is there a setting to get that to work?
I have Plex installed on another Linux computer with more horsepower and it works well, plays media (same movie file loaded to the NAS) and fetches data from the Internet for the movie. I understand the Plex build for ReadyNAS is probably scaled down from the full version and is obviously a dersion of Plex, but the basics should work.
Any suggestions - thanks
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