Effectively it matches a profile of sorts in Twonky's configuration. The important value is the highlighted one. One of the views available shows connected Media Receivers. As you might have noticed, Twonky has a config GUI that runs on port 9000 by default. The first step in doing this is determining what user agent Twonky detects the blu-ray player as being. It seems that if we change the MIME type of MKV files as far as Twonky is concerned, the blu-ray player will find the file and should be able to play it. Before the MKV file had at least shown up, now it was nowhere to be seen by the blu-ray player.Ī bit more googling found a solution for me though. You could even say that it made them worse. Doing so even automatically disables the built-in version of Twonky. Simply navigate to “Application Servers > OPKG Plugins” in the QNAP admin GUI and click the “GET QPKG” button to be shown the list of available plugins.Īfter selecting, downloading and installing the correct package it can then simply be enabled. A selection of packages can be installed very simply using the web-based admin utility. QNAPs have a plugin system called QPKG that allows some extra functionality to be added to the NAS. Looking into this it was quite straight forward. It's certainly not supposed to be a development platform.įinally I discovered that a later version of Twonky (6.x) could be installed instead of the bundled version (5.x). It's there to server files primarily, the rest is a bonus. I looked at MediaTomb and a couple of other efforts but there seemed to be a lot of compiling required for some of them and I didn't want to clutter my NAS up with lots of compilers and libraries. And while it's easy enough to turn it off, I'd need to replace it with something. There's plenty of people who have bemoaned the lack of support for MKV files in Twonky it would seem. It plays normal DivX files perfectly well. However, DivXHD is apparently not supported using DLNA. As long as the blu-ray player is capable of playing the contained video, it shouldn't be too difficult working with the container format. The important thing is that MKV is a container and not a codec. There seems to be some fairly broad support for different video file formats. Sony's documentation for my blu-ray player (a BDP-S370). This is what I did with my afternoon off on Tuesday!įirst things first. The second option, the one I chose, the harder one, was to sort the problem out. This would certainly do the job but would also mean a loss in quality and, in the event that I get lots more MKV files, be a pain to have to do over and over again. The first was to manually transcode the file on another computer into a format that would work. The CPU in the NAS is just not up to that job! So, what was happening was that the Twonky Media server was trying to transcode on-the-fly into a format that it felt comfortable serving to my blu-ray player. After a quick SSH connection was established I could see that the process “ffmpeg” was pegging the CPU of the NAS. This probably would have carried on the for the entire duration if I'd let it.Ī few minutes later I became aware that the fan in the QNAP had started to run at its maximum speed. After about 30 seconds a 2 second clip of the video played before pausing for another 30 seconds.
Although it showed up when I pointed the blu-ray player at it, when I tried to play the file not a lot happened. I received a video of a family event the other week and the file was in an MKV format (or container). I put it down to a lack of support from my blu-ray player but then I came up with a reason to dig deeper. It works well with DivX AVI files but it wasn't happy with several other formats. When enabled it allows me to stream video content from the QNAP to my blu-ray player and watch it on a decent sized screen. One of the features that comes built in with most QNAP devices is a UPNP Media Server, which is actually a repackaged version of Twonky.
#TWONKY HOME SERVER SOFTWARE#
I do use it to store templates, ISO files and other software along with all of my digital media and documents etc. I don't really use it in my home lab for hosting VMs. Ok, so it's not really virtualisation related but I thought it needed writing down somewhere.
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