UPNP, stream DVD-drive to mediaplayer(XBMC Live)

[ferdyvw]

Hi,

Have a home network, with a Windows 7 pc, a Nas and an HTPC with XBMC Live (linux).

My HTPC does not have an optical drive, my pc does.

I installed Twonky Manager, i added the D: drive for sharing.

On my HTPC, in XBMC Live, i go to UPNP, i see the Twonky server, i can expand it and see music/videos/pictures..but not the DVD drive.

How do i get this to work?

[parnott]

On my HTPC, in XBMC Live, i go to UPNP, i see the Twonky server, i can expand it and see music/videos/pictures..but not the DVD drive.

How do i get this to work?

You won't see the DVD drive. Twonky does not do file sharing. It does media sharing. It catalogs media files according to their media type and presents them under the music/videos/pictures nodes that you see in XBMC. If you even managed to get Twonky to catalog a DVD, the files making up the DVD would appear somewhere in the Video node as a series of .vob files with meanigless names (e.g. VTS_01_1.VOB). Oh and they will be encrypted so XBMC probably will not be able to play them this way. And if you changed the DVD, the new DVD would not be re-cataloged.

Your options-
1) Rip your DVD's into a video file format that Twonky can stream (e.g. MP4, MKV, MPG), no DVD menus and other features
2) Rip your DVD's to ISO format and use file sharing to play them.
3) Buy an inexpensive USB DVD player and plug it into your HTPC.