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amarzano's avatar
Sep 12, 2011

Readynas & DLNA...

Folks -

I'm new to all this and trying to catch up. I have ready thru several forums and did a search on threads around Twonky.

Here is what I have..

Readynas NV+ - (currently housing photos, music and video)
Readynas Pro 6 - (future home of photos, music and video)

Pioneer Kuro TV's / Panasonic Plasma / Ipad's / Iphone's / Itouch

Here is what I am trying to do:

- Stream 10 years of Home Movies stored on NAS (ACHVD, and other formats). Most are HD Def.
- Stream Ripped DVDs - most are NOT HD.
- NOT insert a Desktop / Laptop / Media Player or other device into the process.

Here is my problem:

- All TV's have DLNA players built in
- All TV's can connect to NAS and see movie Titles listed
- MOST of the movies can not be played by the TV.
- Iphone / iPad running a DLNA player (8player - but open to suggestions) can connect - but not play HD resolution Home Movies.

Here seem to be my choices:

- Change all the movie formats to something the TV's, iPhones, iPads all seem to like
- Insert a media player like Twonky on the NAS to resolve above

Here is what I don't know:

- Will Twonky resolve the above issues w/ formats - or do I need to recode everything
- What resolution can Twonky support (1080p?)
- What formats can Twonky stream?
- What is the latest version of Twonky (5.1.5 or 6.0.32??)

Thank you again for the help and wisdom.

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  • I'm using Twonky 6.0.34.

    The only format Twonky seems to have problems with, for me anyway, is .3gp files recorded on my old Sony cell phone. Other than that, it plays everything I have, from lowly lo-res .mov files to DivX .avi's to .vob's to massive 1080p .mkv files with multiple HD audio streams. Twonky is a little bit quirky - or perhaps I'm a little quirky, whatever... but I did have to tweak things a bit for Twonky to see my shares the way I wanted. Also, there appears to be a bit of a quirk with Twonky.... pausing movies causes my media player to become sluggish and/or unresponsive... working on that and I see others having the same problem.

    IMHO, the ReadyNas DLNA (minidlna) implementation is b0rked.
  • Thank you for the response!

    So is 6.0.34 the correct version for the readynas Pro? (I.e. X86)?

    Thank you!
  • amarzano wrote:
    Thank you for the response!

    So is 6.0.34 the correct version for the readynas Pro? (I.e. X86)?

    Thank you!


    Check the community add-ons for Twonky on the ReadyNas Pro - I think it's at 6.0.32 but there's mention of 6.0.33 there, a little confusing.

    Mike
  • Thanks Mike -

    I did look there - that is why I was asking here.. I was totally confused.. :-)

    Alex

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