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Title: UPnP Performance
Post by: johnelle on February 25, 2011, 04:19:53 AM

I bought the DNS-323 mainly to transition my media library off of an old Dell.  I was happy that it actually talked to my notoriously picky Samsung TV via UPnP but once I copied the media over I noticed the performance as incredibly bad for UPnP.  On the music, where I have a large number of folders (by artist) it can take 5 minutes to send the data.  My old setup has Serviio (Java based UPnP) running on an old Dell box and its *much* faster.

All of the other servers/discovery are turned off.  The file server is quite snappy so its not an overall issue with the 323.

Does anybody else see this?  I didn't see any complaints searching the site.

Title: Re: UPnP Performance
Post by: TJ on February 25, 2011, 07:50:00 PM

I also have a large music library (over 600 folders - one for each artist) and thought I would try UPnP to my PS3. Not only do my media tags not load, but the list took so long to load I gave up. There doesn't seem to be a way to load a playlist that is stored ON the dns, and I can't seem to figure out how to just shuffle music. Unless you have less than 500 MP3s I wouldn't even bother using this box in that capacity. What I've been doing lately is just mapping a drive to a pc and setting WMP or whatever to use \\dataserver\volume_1\documents\music as the library folder.

I still use UPnP for video though, and it mostly does the job.

Title: Re: UPnP Performance
Post by: McPillager on February 26, 2011, 08:42:38 AM

Your best bet is to wait for new firmware 1.10 where current UPnP server is dropped in favor of a new dlna 1.5 compliant one.

Title: Re: UPnP Performance
Post by: johnelle on February 26, 2011, 11:53:37 AM

But that thread was one of the first ones that I read and it seems that the ship date for the new firmware is one of the big mysteries of the universe.  Did I miss something?

Title: Re: UPnP Performance
Post by: TJ on February 26, 2011, 11:25:27 PM

Nope. Didn't miss anything. We are all patiently awaiting a long overdue 1.10

Title: Re: UPnP Performance
Post by: mitre_11 on February 27, 2011, 08:58:39 AM

Yes, I know what you are going through. I recently purchased a gig-port router which improved the streaming a little. I just tried 1.10 beta with the new media player. IT WORKS. No more choppyness. Though tranfer speeds from my PC to DNS-323 still suck. Also the refresh button in the UPnP section sucks. Takes forever for it to find your new media on the DNS-323. I hope the 1.10 fixes all this mess.

Title: Re: UPnP Performance
Post by: TJ on February 27, 2011, 06:43:35 PM

Wait... You HAVE a 1.10 beta? I haven't been able to find anything. The betacode section isn't even on the forum any longer.