HP EX485 + Twonky + Xbox 360 = Underwhelming
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:40 pm
I blame myself - when I was given a demo of Twonky MediaServer at CES in January, the message I walked away with was "it will take basically any media file format and give it to the Xbox 360 in the right format". I thought that it would magically fill the gaps in what the Xbox 360 couldn't play, which has been a constant source of frustration for me. I didn't do a lot spec-sheet peeping on the Twonky software before purchasing my HP EX485 Windows Home Server - I just though it would do what I needed.
So this morning I was surprised and very disappointed to see the same old frustrating Xbox 360 errors complaining about the wrong file format - if it can even *see* the files that is. Three of my h.264 files don't show up at all. The Divx AVI file plays, but I'm pretty sure it did before. Worse yet, when I browse my photos via the Twonky software, nearly all of them show up as "X's" on the screen. They're just JPEGs...Twonky can't handle those?
So the question is, what exactly does the Twonky software add to this scenario? What good is it?
So this morning I was surprised and very disappointed to see the same old frustrating Xbox 360 errors complaining about the wrong file format - if it can even *see* the files that is. Three of my h.264 files don't show up at all. The Divx AVI file plays, but I'm pretty sure it did before. Worse yet, when I browse my photos via the Twonky software, nearly all of them show up as "X's" on the screen. They're just JPEGs...Twonky can't handle those?
So the question is, what exactly does the Twonky software add to this scenario? What good is it?