Home Media Network Hard Drive Folder and Format questions

[Snorky]

Hi all,

the iomega (very helpful) support person suggested to bring some of my questions here. I hope I'm not in the wrong place.

I'm planning to buy a Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive, Cloud Edition until some one proves that it's not a good idea.

Currently I have a Samsung LED TV UE46C7700. Even though it has Samsung Share (DLNA) I'm not sure if that meas the whole TV is DLNA certified.
I'm able to play movies from my PC's when I use Windows Media Player or Samsung PC share. That works well.
However, the idea is to now centralize all movies, photo's and music to a low cost Media Server like the Iomega.

I do not have much experience, but did come across some issues that I would like to be resolved. I tested it with an old Freecom FSG-3 and activated the build in Media Server. It runs on Twonkey 4.4.2 which I assume is very old.

The two major issues I ran into are:
1) The folders I created like MOVIES which contained 2 subfolders CHILD and ADULT, the subfolders did not show up on my TV. In stead, all it showed was the total amount of movies, which made it hugely cluttered!
2) On the folders it 'did' show, not all video's where shown. I think it has to do that some modern formats like MKV are not supported yet.

Can anyone more or less guarantee that these new modern drives (running Twonkey 6.0.32 according to the Iomega support desk) is doing much better with the issues above?

Slightly less important but still annoying is the fact that I could start and stop a movie, but not pause, fast forward with the TV remote etc. Is this any better these days?

[Twonky_Rick]

There are other people in this forum that can probably do a much better job of answering this question, but I'll share with you what little I do know.

1. TwonkyServer 6.0 contains many improvements which were not in TS 5.x.
2. TwonkyServer can stream some MKV files without problem. Not every client can play these files however.
3. Pause, fast-forward and rewind performance varies depending on the codec your using on the client you're using to play the files.

- Rick

[Snorky]

Thank you for these initial answers Rick, fast response!

Well, can I assume that if these last two points 2 and 3 are working when streaming from Windows Media player that it would also work from the Iomega server? I assume by ' client' you mean the TV in this example?