Hi All,
I currently have a WD Mybook world edition II NAS drive, and currently evaluating replacing it with my new HP Microserver running vmware with a dedicated ubuntu 10.10 vm. I have a fairly large collection of music (14,000 tracks) and find the NAS a bit slow, hence why I’m looking at alternatives.
I've built the setup, and currently mounting my NAS volumes (photos, music & music videos) as a NFS share, In addition I'm also mounting films as a cifs share into the Public & Private directories on ubuntu respectively.
I've run through the steps mentioned on the forum to install FFMPEG, etc and ticked the "transcode videos to:" "MPEG2" on the twonkyserver transcoding page. However all i can see on my tv (sony bravia) is the VOB files from some dvd's i've copied.
Should I be able transcode the MKV's, AVI's, WMV's I have or do I have to wait for the illusive version7?
I’m not sure if I should have a few more definition files in order to convert from other formats?
I also use PS3Media server as well, this transcodes well (apart from stream from youtube which is choppy), but doesn’t allow me to fast forward audio tracks where twonky does. I’m hoping that twonky6 or 7 can tick all the boxes and i'm just doing something silly on the configuration.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
regards, adrian
Can Twonkyserver 6.0.32 transcode to MEPG2?
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Re: Can Twonkyserver 6.0.32 transcode to MEPG2?
It is possible for those running TwonkyServer on computers to transcode today, but setup isn't easy. This should get easier when TS 7.0 ships.
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Re: Can Twonkyserver 6.0.32 transcode to MEPG2?
Many thanks for responding, at the moment I’m happy to try “pimping†6.0.32 to get transcoding to work, I’ve already loaded the custom views (mentioned in the qnap forums) on both my nas and ubuntu to make my media library more accessible (album artist in an alphabetical list is a god send ... many thanks to Brian on the qnap forum).
At the moment, I want some way of having my music library and media collection stored securely, accessible, and media type (i.e. transcoding) independent hence why I’m looking for an all encompassing product.
If you could point me in the direction of any links you have to enable transcoding in 6.0.32 it would be appreciated. Suspect my final option will be to save up for a QNAP TS-259 Pro+ Turbo NAS that allows PS3Media Server to be bolted on top of twonky.
Thanks again for your assistance.
Cheers adrian
At the moment, I want some way of having my music library and media collection stored securely, accessible, and media type (i.e. transcoding) independent hence why I’m looking for an all encompassing product.
If you could point me in the direction of any links you have to enable transcoding in 6.0.32 it would be appreciated. Suspect my final option will be to save up for a QNAP TS-259 Pro+ Turbo NAS that allows PS3Media Server to be bolted on top of twonky.
Thanks again for your assistance.
Cheers adrian