Enabled transcoding and PS3 no longer sees videos
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:11 pm
First post here and still relatively green on the whole DLNA scene.
I have recently upgraded to Twonkymedia 5 when I upgraded my media server from Fedora Linux 6 to Fedora 10.
The twonky server was installed according to the included instructions and I was able to stream video from it to the PS3 quite happily, barring a few AVIs which were in an unsupported format.
That was when I went to try to enable transcoding.
I installed all of the transcoding packages listed in the documentation, and configured my .location files to point to
/usr/local/bin
After this, the PS3 stopped seeing any files on the twonky server. I can see the server itself, but it reports no files.
When I use the media browser via the PS3's inbuilt web browser, I can watch the (previously working) videos just fine, and I can do the same from my Windows PC's web browser.
Could installing the transcoders have anything to do with this.
I have also noticed some oddities since mucking around. A few odd video files that I copied onto the server folders took several hours to appear in the media browser list, despite me having force a directory rescan from the web configuration interface.
Also, the PS3 has never appeared in the "Media Receivers" list, even when it was streaming successfully. I have seen my Windows Media Player in the list in the past, but never the PS3. I suspect that if Twonky is not seeing the PS3 as a PS3 device, then it may not be making the internal adjustments necessary to suit the PS3 peculiar DLNA implementation.
Anyone have any ideas?
I have recently upgraded to Twonkymedia 5 when I upgraded my media server from Fedora Linux 6 to Fedora 10.
The twonky server was installed according to the included instructions and I was able to stream video from it to the PS3 quite happily, barring a few AVIs which were in an unsupported format.
That was when I went to try to enable transcoding.
I installed all of the transcoding packages listed in the documentation, and configured my .location files to point to
/usr/local/bin
After this, the PS3 stopped seeing any files on the twonky server. I can see the server itself, but it reports no files.
When I use the media browser via the PS3's inbuilt web browser, I can watch the (previously working) videos just fine, and I can do the same from my Windows PC's web browser.
Could installing the transcoders have anything to do with this.
I have also noticed some oddities since mucking around. A few odd video files that I copied onto the server folders took several hours to appear in the media browser list, despite me having force a directory rescan from the web configuration interface.
Also, the PS3 has never appeared in the "Media Receivers" list, even when it was streaming successfully. I have seen my Windows Media Player in the list in the past, but never the PS3. I suspect that if Twonky is not seeing the PS3 as a PS3 device, then it may not be making the internal adjustments necessary to suit the PS3 peculiar DLNA implementation.
Anyone have any ideas?