TwonkyMedia 4.4.11 on WestenDigital MyBook WE 1TB NAS Device
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:11 am
Well,
Running Twonkyvision on my Western Digital MyBook World Edtion , 1 Terabyte NAS Device for one year now. Just upgraded to Twonkyvision for emedded NAS Linux ARM little endian uclibc 0.9.28 ver 4.4.11.
I have my PS3 connected via Wired 100Mbps LAN Swtich as DLNA renderer/player. There still are some minor glithces which are to be fixed by Twonky.
When streaming thru Twonky DLNA, ONLY AVI is the most compatible format for PS3. It is playable by every means. Support the scene search function to jump anywhere in the file (in case you left the movie in the middle and want to resume). Fast forward and rewind always work correctly. File information and running time is always shown. And if the file is copied to PS3 internal harddisk then it correctly supports the file specifications like Length,Codec,Bitrate,Resolution,Running Time and Location, some of these fields are not shown when file information is shown for a DLNA residing file.
However for all other types of files the PS3 can play, a lot of functions do not work correctly. Even if the file size is small 600~700MB or large 4GB ~ above . The file cannot be fast forwarded to all speeds. The file cannot be resumed for any point where you stop forwarding it. (It has to be stopped and replayed again to play from that point). The scene search function cannot find any scenes. Mainly because the file length is not shown correctly. It is always 99:99:99 . Thats why any time based seek functions cannot work. Not the mention if you are fond of switchable subtitles then they can only work with AVI files, which can incorporate DivX compliant XSUB subtitles. If any other file needs subtitles then they have to be 'burned' directly on the movies.
This happens for all other "step brother" formats for PS3 namely VOB, MP4, MPG, WMV, TS, M2T(s),
I know a lot of this is not related to TwonkyMedia, and on PS3 firmware capabilities, but still a lot of things can be improved for various file type handling by it.
Just wanted to know that has anyone experimented with all these file types and can guide me. Does the latest beta of Twokyvision addresses some of them. As far as I have read it is more focused on having compatibility to play much new formats like FLAC and OGG, which to be honest i have never come across so much even in my reasonably huge media collection.
Regards,
AlterEgo.
Running Twonkyvision on my Western Digital MyBook World Edtion , 1 Terabyte NAS Device for one year now. Just upgraded to Twonkyvision for emedded NAS Linux ARM little endian uclibc 0.9.28 ver 4.4.11.
I have my PS3 connected via Wired 100Mbps LAN Swtich as DLNA renderer/player. There still are some minor glithces which are to be fixed by Twonky.
When streaming thru Twonky DLNA, ONLY AVI is the most compatible format for PS3. It is playable by every means. Support the scene search function to jump anywhere in the file (in case you left the movie in the middle and want to resume). Fast forward and rewind always work correctly. File information and running time is always shown. And if the file is copied to PS3 internal harddisk then it correctly supports the file specifications like Length,Codec,Bitrate,Resolution,Running Time and Location, some of these fields are not shown when file information is shown for a DLNA residing file.
However for all other types of files the PS3 can play, a lot of functions do not work correctly. Even if the file size is small 600~700MB or large 4GB ~ above . The file cannot be fast forwarded to all speeds. The file cannot be resumed for any point where you stop forwarding it. (It has to be stopped and replayed again to play from that point). The scene search function cannot find any scenes. Mainly because the file length is not shown correctly. It is always 99:99:99 . Thats why any time based seek functions cannot work. Not the mention if you are fond of switchable subtitles then they can only work with AVI files, which can incorporate DivX compliant XSUB subtitles. If any other file needs subtitles then they have to be 'burned' directly on the movies.
This happens for all other "step brother" formats for PS3 namely VOB, MP4, MPG, WMV, TS, M2T(s),
I know a lot of this is not related to TwonkyMedia, and on PS3 firmware capabilities, but still a lot of things can be improved for various file type handling by it.
Just wanted to know that has anyone experimented with all these file types and can guide me. Does the latest beta of Twokyvision addresses some of them. As far as I have read it is more focused on having compatibility to play much new formats like FLAC and OGG, which to be honest i have never come across so much even in my reasonably huge media collection.
Regards,
AlterEgo.