Lacie Ethernet Big Disk serving Movies to iTunes?
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:45 pm
After many hours of frustration I have been unsuccessful at sharing movies (H.264 and MPEG4 (CBR)) from the Media server to iTunes. I have followed the correct firm update process from 1.0.1 to 1.1.2.1 and waited many days for technical responses from Lacie. I have also performed a Twonky update from Lacie console with the file TwonkyServer_Web_admin-1.0.0.signed.
For testing purposes I have created a directory with 12 mp3s and 2 mp4s and restricted the Twonky (4.4.2) to scan this directory only. However, iTunes 7.7 continues to find all my mp3s (7000+). Even though the Twonky logs only show the restricted set of files. In iTunes under "Shared" I select the "EDMini" and all 7000+ mp3s are display. I can play them, however "Movies" (within EDMini) is empty.
Which system is actually serving the content to iTunes? The Lacie log reports. Aug 6 21:23:00 mt-daapd[12280]: Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689 Aug 6 21:23:00 mt-daapd[12280]: Serving 7085 songs. Startup complete in 53 seconds. iTunes listens on port 3689 and Twonky is on 9000.
Has anyone been successful at serving MP4s from the Media Server to iTunes? I get the impression that Twonky is not compatible with iTunes and Lacie media server has implemented DAAP (which is obviously for audio only) that has no relationship to Twonky.
For testing purposes I have created a directory with 12 mp3s and 2 mp4s and restricted the Twonky (4.4.2) to scan this directory only. However, iTunes 7.7 continues to find all my mp3s (7000+). Even though the Twonky logs only show the restricted set of files. In iTunes under "Shared" I select the "EDMini" and all 7000+ mp3s are display. I can play them, however "Movies" (within EDMini) is empty.
Which system is actually serving the content to iTunes? The Lacie log reports. Aug 6 21:23:00 mt-daapd[12280]: Starting web server from /usr/share/mt-daapd/admin-root on port 3689 Aug 6 21:23:00 mt-daapd[12280]: Serving 7085 songs. Startup complete in 53 seconds. iTunes listens on port 3689 and Twonky is on 9000.
Has anyone been successful at serving MP4s from the Media Server to iTunes? I get the impression that Twonky is not compatible with iTunes and Lacie media server has implemented DAAP (which is obviously for audio only) that has no relationship to Twonky.