Fantastic, I'll look forwards to that.
I'm hoping once I've got to the bottom of the tagging issue that I can move all the individual file output to be embedded inside the files themselves, so the directories aren't cluttered with a .jpg file for each .mp4 file.
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- Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:08 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: How do you set the Folder picture for Videos
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4354
- Fri Jan 29, 2016 9:39 am
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: How do you set the Folder picture for Videos
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4354
How do you set the Folder picture for Videos
I'm in Twonky 8.2 and trying to figure out how to set the Folder picture that gets used when browsing Video directories By Folder. I've tried creating a folder.jpg and even Folder.jpg, but Twonky seems to want to use the picture of the first item in the directory, which isn't really what I want. Esp...
- Thu Jan 28, 2016 3:55 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Twonky 8.2 showing some titles as "data"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7552
Re: Twonky 8.2 showing some titles as "data"
Thanks for that, I'm currently resetting all my "broken" mp4 files by deleting their tags, which is taking a while. But once done I'll rebuild my database to check it's clean, and then experiment with different scenarios to see which break it, and which don't. My hopeful endgame is to be able to hav...
- Wed Jan 27, 2016 4:31 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Twonky 8.2 showing some titles as "data"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7552
Re: Twonky 8.2 showing some titles as "data"
Since nobody here seems to be hitting it, and I still don't know how to officially report a bug, I've got a bit further with the diagnosis. It seems to be any Video file that I amend the tags with MediaMonkey. It doesn't seem to matter which tags I change, just tagging using MediaMonkey seems to be ...
- Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:22 am
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Twonky 8.2 showing some titles as "data"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7552
Re: Twonky 8.2 showing some titles as "data"
Since discovering this I've found some films also showing with titles of data that I haven't touched in a long time and weren't showing incorrectly before I upgraded to 8.2 from a 5.x version of Twonky. These files haven't had any special tagging as far as I can remember. Anybody know how I submit a...
- Mon Jan 11, 2016 5:47 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Twonky 8.2 showing some titles as "data"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7552
Twonky 8.2 showing some titles as "data"
I've noticed some of the files in my library are showing in the navigation tree with a name of "data", regardless of the file name or what is set in the "Title tag". It seems to be confined to video mp4 files on which I have either set the "Actor" tag, or embedded an image. Blanking out the Actor ta...
- Thu Dec 03, 2015 9:22 am
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Twonky 8.2 Ignoring choice of NavTree for Windows
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4774
Re: Twonky 8.2 Ignoring choice of NavTree for Windows
If that's the case, why when I view via the webUI on an external Windows device does it add a device to my list to represent that, which has the ability to set a specific "Navigation type" for that device? If you can't change it, that needs to be fixed so it doesn't lead the user into believing that...
- Tue Dec 01, 2015 11:53 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Twonky 8.2 Ignoring choice of NavTree for Windows
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4774
Re: Twonky 8.2 Ignoring choice of NavTree for Windows
Slight update on my original diagnosis. Having added some new containers to the view-definitions.xml file I can clarify that it's not exactly ignoring the view I choose, but simply using every container in the view-definitions.xml file and not respecting the <link> tags in whatever view I suggest. A...
- Tue Dec 01, 2015 10:19 am
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Twonky 8.2 Ignoring choice of NavTree for Windows
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4774
Twonky 8.2 Ignoring choice of NavTree for Windows
After many years of uneventful service from Twonky 6.0.30 I took the plunge and tried the latest version. On the whole an uneventful upgrade, but it appears to be ignoring my choice of NavTree for browsing through a web browser, be that Firefox, IE or Edge, they all show what I assume is the Advance...
- Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:27 pm
- Forum: Other devices
- Topic: LG BX580 and Twonky
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7146
Re: LG BX580 and Twonky
Seems I spoke too soon, the visibility of Twonky to the BX580 is intermittently reliable. Or to put it more precisely, it turned up once after I reset everything, now it won't play ball at all. So if anyone at Twonky Towers has some LG test equipment, or have a friendly contact within LG, I'd apprec...
- Tue Mar 08, 2011 3:19 pm
- Forum: Other devices
- Topic: LG BX580 and Twonky
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7146
Re: LG BX580 and Twonky
Well I have managed to get the BX580 seeing Twonky again. I went into the "Media Receivers" page and saw that Twonky saw the box as an "LG Blu-Ray Player". I deleted it off the list and tried to connect again, and this time the box reappeared in Twonky as a "Generic Media Receiver", but still didn't...
- Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:12 pm
- Forum: Other devices
- Topic: LG BX580 and Twonky
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7146
LG BX580 and Twonky
Recently bought an LG BX580 which initially worked with Twonky, albeit a bit awkwardly (it took several minutes for it to appear). Now after upgrading to the latest firmware it won't see it at all. It will see the Samba shares on the very same box, it will see Windows Media players on the same netwo...
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:28 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Securing external access to the server
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6183
Re: Securing external access to the server
Yeah that would do it for me. I'm under no illusions it would be "secure" but it would be secure enough to stop casual access getting at my media and bandwidth.
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:21 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Securing external access to the server
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6183
Re: Securing external access to the server
I had thought about that, if I included "internally" then an external access would fail not seeing the local address. If I did the include using using the remote dns name then the routing goes externally, at which point you have to open the port and put in NAT rules to get the request routed to the ...
- Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:46 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Securing external access to the server
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6183
Re: Securing external access to the server
I would also love to know if this is possible. However, MAC address filtering can be circumvented by a ten year old and is no longer a real method of security. I know you probably know this but anyone who knows that your IP is a server is probably going to be smart enough to spoof. Even if it is ju...
- Wed Feb 16, 2011 9:06 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Multiple Genre problem
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2605
Re: Multiple Genre problem
Oh good, it's not just something I've done. Sounds like a bug then. Is there some official place to report them or do they get picked up from here?
- Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:47 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Multiple Genre problem
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2605
Multiple Genre problem
TwonkyServer has a wonderful feature whereby you can code more than one genre against an object, and it will apear in multple places in the navigation tree. Which is absolutely fantastic, invaluable, and if only we could do that with more tags (e.g. Artist) the anyone with a large collection would b...
- Thu Feb 10, 2011 7:49 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: How does Twonky announce itself?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3057
Re: How does Twonky announce itself?
I suspected as much myself. Problem is the BX580 lists every share on every device in the house instantly as you select the option to view servers, and that's a hell of a list of things to scroll past, and then wait for the server to appear every time you turn the box on. I remember telling my kids ...
- Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:24 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: New Feature Requests
- Replies: 317
- Views: 305021
Re: New Feature Requests
I would like a way to "tag" video files (numerous formats) and then browse via those tags. For example: Say I have a home movie of my son playing baseball. I'd like to tag it with "Son", "Baseball", "2008", etc. Then when I go to the video section of my dsm520, I'd see: All Videos Folder Tags Click...
- Thu Feb 10, 2011 9:52 am
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Sort of presentation videos.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5830
Re: Sort of presentation videos.
Are you using your own defined view? The reason I ask is on my setups, from Twonky 4 up to 6.0.30 videos have always been sorted by title without me needing to do anything about it.
- Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:31 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: How does Twonky announce itself?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3057
How does Twonky announce itself?
I've just bought an LG BX850 which is a Blu-Ray media player. In general it supports Twonky quite well, but I have noticed a curious behaviour. When you select "Home Link" you get presented with a list of all servers on the network. The box supports both DLNA servers and Windows/Samba shares. It ALW...
- Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:09 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Simplifying menu structure
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5096
Re: Simplifying menu structure
The very first level of Music, Photos and Video you cannot do anything about in Twonky. That is down to the client to pre-select those specific nodes of the menu tree i.e. if it's a Music Only Player, then if configured well it should automatically select the "music" tree. From there onwards though ...
- Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:16 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Where to find TwonkyServer 6.0 Documentation?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 33531
Re: Where to find TwonkyServer 6.0 Documentation?
Still waiting for a pointer to the most up to date version of the tree documentation. I find it crazy, given how powerful a feature it appears to be, that it seems to be being kept a big secret. If the editor feature is on hold, give us some documentation. It won't necessarily suit everyone, or be p...
- Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:47 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Securing external access to the server
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6183
Re: Securing external access to the server
An update for anyone holding out for being able to restrict access to Twonky by MAC address... I don't think it can be done. Having not found a way to do it inside Twonky I decided to teach myself about Linux firewalls and over time managed to build a firewall on my Linux server containing Twonky th...
- Fri Jan 14, 2011 4:49 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Securing external access to the server
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6183
Re: Securing external access to the server
I did look at the Media Receivers page in the config. I'd hoped with the "Enable sharing for new media receivers automatically:" option unticked that this would stop the Web interface working from a device not on the list. However this option makes no difference, the unlisted device is still able to...
- Wed Jan 12, 2011 11:39 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Securing external access to the server
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6183
Securing external access to the server
Is there any mechanism that can retrict access to the Media Server, as a whole, not content specific? What I'm looking for is a way that IF I were to make my server accessible outside of my network, I could control what devices could connect remotely. Either by a userID and password for Browser/Flas...
- Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:10 am
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Where to find TwonkyServer 6.0 Documentation?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 33531
Re: Where to find TwonkyServer 6.0 Documentation?
Thanks Rick. Will updated Tree documentation also be provided? Will the updated Tree documentation (or even this document) list the video/audio/image tag name to Twonky metadata mapping? There are no plans to add more tree editing info to the Users' Guide posted here. There is some info on this top...
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:32 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Play more than one song?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3955
Re: Play more than one song?
Yes the feature to play a whole album seems to have disappeared somewhere in the 5.x family sadly.
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:29 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Multi Value tags
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7519
Re: Multi Value tags
Oh I absolutely LOVE multiple genres, it allows you to cut your music collection in all sorts of directions. For example you may have a band that typically fits in a particular genre, then they cover a song from another genre, putting their own flavour on it, but still retaining elements of its orig...
- Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:50 pm
- Forum: PS3
- Topic: MTS/M2TS to PS3 via Twonky
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17120
Re: MTS/M2TS to PS3 via Twonky
I've had a Panasonic HDC-SD9 for almost a year now, and when I was on Twonky 4.4 to get them to play on the PS3 via Twonky, I had to rename the files from *.mts to *.mpg and they then played perfectly on the PS3 (over hard wired lan). However having renamed then to mpg it caused problems playing on ...
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:50 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: New Feature Requests
- Replies: 317
- Views: 305021
Re: New Feature Requests
I'm now really getting into the new xml trees, after a shaky start I'm getting some useful results. BUT it would be much nicer if I could, for any container, provide a template at to how generated items might appear (rather than the current detail of a straight dc:title). For example, I can create a...
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:30 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: How to Create Your Own Custom Navigation Trees
- Replies: 185
- Views: 253593
Re: How to Create Your Own Custom Navigation Trees
I must admit I was thinking along the lines of the fact that an "album" is simply a collection of files with the same value for a specific tag and there was no guarantee any other tag would have consistent properties. However we DO have a precedent for picking an album attribute from a group of pote...
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:13 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: How to Create Your Own Custom Navigation Trees
- Replies: 185
- Views: 253593
Re: How to Create Your Own Custom Navigation Trees
Thanks for that, but I'd already tried that, and that brings an unwanted layer of navigation in, which first presents you with a list of years, which you then have to guess what album is under which year. What I want to achieve is something so simple you could do it with your old record collection o...
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:03 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Album play feature appears to have gone AWOL
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3133
Re: Album play feature appears to have gone AWOL
lol
Well I'm glad I could help
Well I'm glad I could help
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:40 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: How to Create Your Own Custom Navigation Trees
- Replies: 185
- Views: 253593
Re: How to Create Your Own Custom Navigation Trees
I'm gradually coming to grips with the new trees, but I'm stumped on one thing. I'd like my album views to be sorted in release date, NOT alphabetical order. All my songs are tagged to the album release date, each album is in a folder with the year as the first word, but no matter what I try they co...
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:26 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Album play feature appears to have gone AWOL
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3133
Album play feature appears to have gone AWOL
I upgraded my Video server from 4.4 to 5.0.86 and produced a nice custom tree that worked for me, now I'm working on what I can do with trees to upgrade my music server and spotted a fairly crucial feature that has gone missing from the Twonky Web Browser. Under 4.4 when presented with a list of alb...
- Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:59 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: When can we expect some documentation?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4249
Re: When can we expect some documentation?
Yes I'd appreciate some more documentation too, especially given the reluctance to support NAS installs, I spent a lot of time recently poking around in the dark getting it working. Eventually I did, but it would have been much quicker with some good doc. I'd like to see - > Any command line argumen...
- Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:42 am
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Transcoding help please
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2523
Transcoding help please
Hi there, The bulk of my media content is in h.264 format in mp4 files, which is great for my PS3. However I've just dusted off my old Bufallo LinkTheatre from the loft to see if I can add a media player in the bedroom, but it doesn't support h.264. So I have a few questions - 1. Is it possible for ...
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:27 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: New Feature Requests
- Replies: 317
- Views: 305021
Re: New Feature Requests
Some new configuration directives are needed. The following files byebye, clients.data, db.info, twonkymedia-locations.db and twonkymedia-server.ini all get defined within the /var/twonkymedia directort and there is no keyword directive to move then elsewhere, unlike the database, cache, uploads etc...
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:15 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Database entropy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6359
Re: Database entropy
Actually thinking about it, when you have your correct setup, have you tried saving it as the default INI file, so when the server starts, it sees no files in /var/twonkymedia but does not care because it uses a complete default every time that points to your database files on your HDD? Yes I've do...
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:36 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Database entropy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6359
Re: Database entropy
OK, I've learned a lot in the last two days about Twonky, Linux and Linkstations. Hopefully this write up will prove useful to others, but there is a "cry for help" at the bottom (sorry it's a bit long). So to recap... After upgrading from 4.4 to 5.0.68 (by way of 5.0.61) on a Linkstation II (MIPS) ...
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:08 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Database entropy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6359
Re: Database entropy
I have to say I'm no Linux scripting expert, my platform of speciality is z/OS, but I have found out some more "bits" as the problem came back again. My Linux skills are gradually growing thanks to vague memories of AIX and HP-UX (they're close enough) ;-) First thing I found was that at some point ...
- Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:15 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Database entropy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6359
Re: Database entropy
Three and a half hours up with no disappearing views. So it looks like the NAS install "missed" something that needed a reboot.
Someone from Twonky let me know if they want me to see if I can do it again with diagnostics, I'm happy to help.
Someone from Twonky let me know if they want me to see if I can do it again with diagnostics, I'm happy to help.
- Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:39 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Database entropy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6359
Re: Database entropy
OK, done some more digging. The DB directory seems to build OK (I assume as I don't know for sure what should be in there but it makes some sense), I get directories 11 to 14 with nothing but an empty items.dat file and then directory 15 contains a full replica of my folder structure and an items.da...
- Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:23 am
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Database entropy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6359
Re: Database entropy
Just put 5.0.68 on this morning, and sadly that is doing the exact same thing. Do a rebuild and the number steadily rises to 1623 (added some more files this morning). The browser can see them for a while and then they disappear gradually. Any thoughts on where to look for clues, what diagnostics to...
- Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:12 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Database entropy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6359
Database entropy
I've just upgraded one of my old Linkstation II MIPs NAS boxes from 4.4 to 5.0.61. Been working fine for years on 4.4, but with the NAS installers finally reappearing I decided to take the plunge and upgraded (and upgraded my license too). After a few hours of scratching my head trying to figure out...
- Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:04 pm
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Add radio stations?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5121
Re: Add radio stations?
I'm convinced I have something fundamentally wrong with my Twonky Setup for Radio, but this post gave me a little hope. Ever since I installed Twonky (4.4) I had Shoutcast and vTuner turned on and every genre ticked but nothing ever appeared. Now I tried adding a manual station as follows, and it st...
- Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:52 pm
- Forum: Other devices
- Topic: Buffalo LinkTheater PC-P3LWG
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2344
Buffalo LinkTheater PC-P3LWG
Many moons ago I had a LinkTheater at the heart of my media centre and it served me well, till the PS3 took over and consigned it to the loft. In the mean time I upgraded most of my video collection to h264. Now I decided to see if I could get the old Buffalo back in use as a media player in the bed...
- Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:21 pm
- Forum: PS3
- Topic: Are You Happy With Your PS3's Media Client capabilities?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 45315
Re: Are You Happy With Your PS3's Media Client capabilities?
Generally I'm happy with the PS3 client capabilities, but have 2 bugbears. 1. Firmware updates tend to randomly scupper video playback, before fixing it a couple of releases later. This means whenever a firmware update comes out I have to wait, scour the forums and see if it's a wrecker of an update...
- Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:49 am
- Forum: TwonkyServer
- Topic: Help: Artist refuses to move!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2725
Re: Help: Artist refuses to move!
OK, Don't know what I've just done, but now on the Browser, this file shows up nowhere I can find under artist, not "Various", "Compilation" or the actual artist, but it DOES show up under the track artist in a list broken down by Genre first then Artist. Then when I browse the server on my PS3 it D...