Comments on: TwonkyMedia, ReadyNAS NV+, and PS3

By: Segitz

Segitz — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:59:41 +0000

As of now, not one DLNA server worked to my content, and I tried many (not on Linux yet)

Nearly none work with non PS3 compatible videos (otf transcoding)
Some have “connectivity issues”

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The best one I tried yet, was the Nero Media Home. It supports otf transcoding (but only measly 2.0mbits mpeg1) and detects all of my videos I have (many Blender Tutorials, mostly .mov)

I hope, there’ll be a good integrated solution soon, that supports HD AVC otf transcoding. I would even pay some €s for that.

By: geowarrior

geowarrior — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:13:41 +0000

Installed Twonkymedia on my PC last night and have to agree it was a breeze to set up, but share the same frustrations as above.

Really wanted something I could play avi’s with as all the video camera footage of my baby is avi. It would also be nice to hide the unsupported data from view on the PS3 rather than scroll through the hundreds (in my case) of files that wont play

By: Henning

Henning — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:56:47 +0000

My music files are not DRM’d because I ripped them from my CD’s.

By: Jonathan Abbey

Jonathan Abbey — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:55:25 +0000

Ooh, weird. I think I read someplace that some piece of software in the DLNA chain (Twonky or PS3) didn’t properly recognize the file type of the .m4a extension.

Doesn’t Twonky have an option to just pass the file to the PS3 without trying to characterize it? Or was I thinking of one of the other DLNA servers?

By: jwspiker

jwspiker — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:46:51 +0000

jonathan.. only m4p is drm’d. m4a’s my m4a(acc’s from itunes) plays just perfectly when copy’n to a SD card and putting that in my ps3.

By: Lakuma

Lakuma — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:44:27 +0000

I know that there has been a lot of talk about the PS3 and TwonkyMedia not able to stream .avi’s. Henning, have you been able to test this out with your setup, because a lot of my videos are .avi’s.

By: Jonathan Abbey

Jonathan Abbey — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:25:34 +0000

The problem with the AAC is that your iTunes files are DRM’ed, and Apple’s not giving the keys to unlock those to anyone. The PS3 should be able to play non-DRM’ed AAC files just fine as it is.

Apple releasing a DLNA-compatible server would be a convenience, but it wouldn’t solve the AAC issue, unless they were willing to strip off the DRM for you.

And they’re not, of course. They’d much rather you buy an iTv and keep it all in the Apple revenue family.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:47:59 +0000

I bet red kawa will make their ps3 videoserver dlna compatible within one month or so.