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Most preferred way to stream to TV?
I have a ReadyNAS 104. I'd like to stream avi and mp4 files from it to my TV. They are both connected to the network. What's the most preferred way of doing that? I'm guessing one way of doing it i...
Hi twink
I, like you, have a ReadyNAS storage device (the Duo v2) I bought two years ago and I have just started to stream some videos from my NAS via my Now TV box to my TV using Plex software, which comes in two parts, i.e. Plex server running on my NAS and Plex app running on the Now TV box http://www.nowtv.com/box.
However, what I have found out is that ReadyNAS devices not running an Intel CPU cannot transcode videos that require that facility and so will not play, this I believe could work out to between 70 and 85% of the your stored videos (it does work out like that for me).
By the way, while checking out new ReadyNAS's this morning I found out that NAS's with "Intel inside" cost £200.00 more than their non-Intel equivalent, far too much to consider for a domestic environment (could never get that one past the wife).
Anyway, I am also looking for a device that can stream videos without the need for transcoding and the only one I have come across so far was the Western Digital TV Media Player. But WD committed a massive ba***up by doing a firmware update that stopped the device streaming MP4 videos, whereas it could before. Consequently, WD have promised they will fix the MP4 problem in the next firmware update, to be released at some unspecified time in the near future.
When WD have fixed the MP4 problem, and not introduced any others (they have an unfortunate habit of doing that), I will then (and only then) purchase a WD TV Media Player.
UK Bob
I, like you, have a ReadyNAS storage device (the Duo v2) I bought two years ago and I have just started to stream some videos from my NAS via my Now TV box to my TV using Plex software, which comes in two parts, i.e. Plex server running on my NAS and Plex app running on the Now TV box http://www.nowtv.com/box.
However, what I have found out is that ReadyNAS devices not running an Intel CPU cannot transcode videos that require that facility and so will not play, this I believe could work out to between 70 and 85% of the your stored videos (it does work out like that for me).
By the way, while checking out new ReadyNAS's this morning I found out that NAS's with "Intel inside" cost £200.00 more than their non-Intel equivalent, far too much to consider for a domestic environment (could never get that one past the wife).
Anyway, I am also looking for a device that can stream videos without the need for transcoding and the only one I have come across so far was the Western Digital TV Media Player. But WD committed a massive ba***up by doing a firmware update that stopped the device streaming MP4 videos, whereas it could before. Consequently, WD have promised they will fix the MP4 problem in the next firmware update, to be released at some unspecified time in the near future.
When WD have fixed the MP4 problem, and not introduced any others (they have an unfortunate habit of doing that), I will then (and only then) purchase a WD TV Media Player.
UK Bob
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