First of all: TwonkyServer is GREAT!
Now my story:
Last week I purchased the WD My Book Live (3TB) with the main purpose for streaming HD videos to my Samsung UE32C6730 LED TV (with build-in media player).
Before, I have streamed videos over the network from my desktop PC with the Samsung PC Share Manager software and this worked perfectly (MKV files with surround sound and subtiles in .srt, movie thumbnails generated, etc.).
But eventually the HDD of my desktop PC became full and I needed another HDD. So I bought the MBL (My Book Live) because of its network/streaming capabilities. Ideal at the first sight; streaming (as WD promises >) supported MKV videos without the need of having turned on my PC
But what a bump that was. My Samsung TV did recognize the MBL and played music and pictures smoothly. But most important: it didn't play any MKV video file! Besides, the navigation tree was now way to complex on my TV (everything was fine with Samsung PC Share Manager).
Luckely I soon found out that the problem was the version of TwonkyServer (pre)installed on my MBL > v5. Furthermore I read on this forum that most problems for Samsung TV's have been fixed in Twonky 6. So I decided to give it a try (what else should I do
) using this: http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-Liv ... 792/page/5 upgrade steps to Twonky 6...AND IT WORKED! (sorry for caps, I was as happy as a child
). With Twonky 6.0.34 I CAN stream MKV files successfull to my Samsung LED TV.I can play forward/backward and pause/play, the navigation tree has improved since Twonky 5, srt subtitles work, the DTS or DD5.1 audiotrack from the MKV video can also be streamed to the TV (which forwards it to my audio receiver)... actually almost just like it was when streaming from my desktop PC with the Samsung software. But now directly from my NAS without having to turn on my PC (brilliant!).
But what doesn't work yet:
- Thumbnails are not generated (before this always did work when streaming with Samsung software)
- When playing a video > going into the tools menu of my TV > There is no subtitle option anymore. This makes it impossible to change the timing of the subtitles (before this always worked when streaming with Samsung software).
- In the TwonkyServer settings > First steps > I set the Navigation tree to > By folder (I don't want a complex navigation tree for my movie collection. With the Advanced media view navigation tree for example I get 7 maps!). With the By folder option I still have to choose between 2 maps when I want to access videos: 1) All videos and 2) By folder. I rather don't want to choose and go directly into the root of my videos where I sorted out my movies in maps on the HDD myself!
- My TV doesn't remember anymore where I stopped watching a movie > Resume option pressing the blue button (before this always did work when streaming with Samsung software)
Another minor thing:
- When playing a video > going into the tools menu of my TV > I can only choose between 1) PCM audio and 2) DTS OR DD5.1. That means when a MVK file has multiple audio streams (not only DTS or DD5.1 but DTS AND DD5.1) I can't choose between these audio tracks and mostly I'm forced to choose between PCM or DTS. This is actually a Samsung limitation I believe?
Are the above problems already known? And is there a way to fix them?
Best regards,
Mark
