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My Streamer won't play AVI-DV Can Readynas server help?
Greetings,
I am trying to piece together the solution here. I have an RN104 which has served me well, other than large copy file/move issues.
I paired it with a WDTV streaming device to play mostly home produced SD and HD video back among other things.
I use a typical Windows SMB share and it has worked fine. So I don't use the DNLA server as the streamer reads the files directly and I don't mess around with Apple ITunes for this purpose.
However, I now have an issue. It appears this streamer (and I guess most?) do not decode AVI (wrapper) with Standard Def DV encoding. So any of my older videos which are raw captures of DV tapes cannot be read by my streamer although ironically a basic windows media player will play them back.
So someone mentioned that maybe a DNLA server either direct or through a PC might help. This is a little outside my comfort zone so wonder if there are some tools or 3rd party plug-ins for my RN104 that might help me get these videos transcoded on the fly and read by my WDTV streaming and displayed on my TV.
As an aside, is it generally agreed that new firmware has solved the slow copy/move problem without wiping your RAID and starting over?
Any thoughts appreciated.
Thanks,
BJB
I am trying to piece together the solution here. I have an RN104 which has served me well, other than large copy file/move issues.
I paired it with a WDTV streaming device to play mostly home produced SD and HD video back among other things.
I use a typical Windows SMB share and it has worked fine. So I don't use the DNLA server as the streamer reads the files directly and I don't mess around with Apple ITunes for this purpose.
However, I now have an issue. It appears this streamer (and I guess most?) do not decode AVI (wrapper) with Standard Def DV encoding. So any of my older videos which are raw captures of DV tapes cannot be read by my streamer although ironically a basic windows media player will play them back.
So someone mentioned that maybe a DNLA server either direct or through a PC might help. This is a little outside my comfort zone so wonder if there are some tools or 3rd party plug-ins for my RN104 that might help me get these videos transcoded on the fly and read by my WDTV streaming and displayed on my TV.
As an aside, is it generally agreed that new firmware has solved the slow copy/move problem without wiping your RAID and starting over?
Any thoughts appreciated.
Thanks,
BJB
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- The RN104 doesn't have the horsepower to transcode on the fly. DLNA won't overcome that.
So you'll need to convert the files on the PC. I believe handbrake will do this.
If you have a lot of them, you could also try a tool called vid2eva ( found at http://vid2eva.lefti.net/) It has no real gui, but does support right-click conversion of individual files and folders.
Both are freeware. - Thanks! I'll compare this to the Adobe media encoder which I also have. I just need to figure out what codec would make the most sense to convert to.
- If you have stereo or mono audio then MP4 is probably the most versatile container, using H.264 and AAC as the codecs.
If you have surround sound audio, then MKV is probably the most versatile, with H.264 and AC3 (dolby digital) as the codecs.
The WDTV-Live should play both. - Thanks! Just raw stereo as captured. I mix to pseudo surround if I edit it but these will just be straight stereo.
BJB
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