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I'm having problems playing back my LPCM music files on a JVC Sophisti. Serving them from Windows Media Player works fine on the JVC but via Twonky they are all greyed out. This is a real pain as I recently copied most of my CD collection to LPCM and this sounds great on the JVC Sophisti via WMP which I'd rather not use because of ongoing problems playing videos.

I have scanned the forum and seen posts on LPCM for other devices involving installing plugins but I'm not sure if that's the answer. Also, I haven't been able to find any clear instructions on where to get said pluging from and how to install them when I have them. So in summary:

- Are there known problems (and solutions) with Twonky serving LPCM?
- Are there known problems (and solutions) with Twonky and the JVC Sophisti NX-BD3?
- If the solution involves installing a plugin then how do I do this?

Thanks for any help!

Alan

Maybe it will help if I provide some more information.

I am running Twonky Server 5.0.46 (for which I have already, rather rashly, purchased a license) on Windows XP.

I want to play my music, photos and videos back on a JVC Sophisti NX-BD3 home theater system. I have recently tested Windows Media Player as a content server and this worked very well for my music and photos and very badly for my video. I tested Twonky and found that it could play a lot of my video withoout any further tweaking - I didn't even think of testing the music files assuming that to be trivial compared to video playback. Now I find that Twonky cannot provide the JVC with any playable version of my WMA music files while WMP did this without breaking a sweat. I have logged a support call with Twonky and I have searched this forum now for several hours over several days. I have gradualy become aware by a process of osmosis that there is something called Transcoding and that it may be the way to solve my problem. In some remote backwaters of your forum I finally found references to some documentation on Transcoding, documentation that served more to confuse than anything else - why on earth is this topic not described in a FAQ or elsewhere in a clear way on this forum? I have now downloaded several transcoding programs (ffmpeg etc.) and followed all the bits an pieces of instructions I could, only to find that I am several days further and still no playable WMA being served from Twonky.

This is whay I did:

Downloaded ffmpeg, lame and vlc and installed all.
Changed the location files for these in cgi directory.
Copied/made a few of my own desc files to convert WMA to LPCM (it is totally unclear to me which transcoder I should use for this so I tried it with both ffmpeg and vlc).
Restarted Twonkyserver
Rebuilt database
Rescanned files
Now instead of greyed out music I can click on the music files - they then give an error.

So I have progresed but it's now getting extremely frustrating. I don't want to spend what's left of my youth changing transcoding desc files and hoping that something will work. Someone out there either knows how this works or knows that it will never work - please help.

Allan,

Your issue was posted already some time ago however were you able to solve your issue with the NX BD3?
I have purchased the same system and I face the same problems.
Appreciate if you could update this issue.

Thanks,

Wim

Unfortunately I think that we're the only two people in the world who ever tried this combination. In the meantime I've given up on Twonky completely (I only got saw your question because the forum mailed me that there'd been a response to my original post). I haven't given up on the JVC though. It looks and sounds great so it still has pride of place in my living room.

What I've done to take the next steps in fulfilling my AV ambitions is the following:

- Bought a new high-spec PC (this was the big-budget item)
- Installed Windows 7 and Windows Media Center
- Put all my content on there
- Installed dual Hauppauge TV cards
- Bought an XBOX and installed it as a media-center extender (€ 150)

I can now view all of my pictures and videos, streaming TV, and listen to all of my music without a problem, The Media Center interface is very nice. The JVC has now been relegated to doing what it's good at - playing the sound output from the XBOX.

I'm very happy (in this limited sense ) but first I had to let go of my illusions about the JVC and about Twonky. Sorry that I can't be more positive. Maybe you can persevere and achieve what I couldn't. Good luck!