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[joe_ottawa]

Good Day everyone; 
I got this DNS 323 and a Linksys NAS 200 last week and after a bit of search and trials i kept the DNS 323. My question is can i remotely streams media content off the DNS 323 without the need to download these content on the PC i am using to connect to the DNS 323? I the Linksys NAS 200 was able of doing this.

I tried the Filezilla but it is only a download/upload client, is there any other way to work around this to eliminate the need to download the files?

Any ideas will be much appreciated.

[D-Link Multimedia]

Are you asking if you can stream from the DNS-323 over the internet to a Linksys Media player? I am a little confused by your question but if that is what you are asking the answer is currently no. We only support streaming inside the same network.

[joe_ottawa]

All i am asking is if there is a way to stream my media (specially Mp3 and Videos) remotely from outside my network without the need to actually download these content on the PC i am using to connect to my network? maybe some sort of application or a program.

Streaming within my network wasn't easy to setup, but is OK anyway.

The Linksys NAS 200 i mentioned was another network storage enclosure that i tried before i keep my D-link, DNS 323. sometimes i wonder if i choose the wrong side.

[D-Link Multimedia]

Ah ok. Currently there is no other streaming software built into the DNS for remote streaming. The only features it has for streaming is iTunes and UPNP AV but both of those are internal network only. What type of streaming are you looking for? A Web based page that you can click your content and play?

[joe_ottawa]

Exactly. I am looking to play my mp3 as if listening to streaming radio instead of having to download the files locally then play them. I am looking to centralize my media and have it all in one place for easy access by all PCs connected from anywhere.

I think the remote download/upload only useful to remotely access the files if needing editing or to make an update or add content from a remote desktop.

is there a web interface or some sort of service that can be connected to my ftp server that can enable me to get this streaming?

[MountainMan]

I'm pretty sure external streaming is working for me.  I've been running all kinds of tests on my new DNS-323 and one of them was to stream media to a computer at work, outside my home network.  It worked great.  I think?

My DNS-323 is setup with a group and some accounts with read-only access to my media directory, the same one I access internally from my PS3 using the UPnP server.  I was running the latest version of Firefox on the computer at work and used it to FTP into my DNS-323 and login.  Then I navigated to the music directory and clicked on one of my songs.

Firefox loaded the quicktime plugin and immediately began playing the song.  Everything worked great and I'm pretty sure it was streaming because it started more quickly than the entire file could have been transferred to a temporary directory.

I couldn't think of any other explanation than that quicktime was somehow playing the file as it was transferred.

[joe_ottawa]

Hi MountainMan;

I just downloaded the new Firefox and i added the FTP add on. it connects to my server but it doesn't see the files. can you shed some lights on how to properly configer this FTP add on?

When i use Filezella, i can see all my files.

[MountainMan]

Hi Joe,

I didn't use an FTP addon to Firefox.  I used the standard browser.  All internet browsers are actually capable of FTP.  You know how website addresses all start with http://?  Most people probably think that's a pointless waste of characters since every page they ever access has the same ones.  But it actually does mean something.

Start with FTP:// and then put the domain name you picked at dyndns.org, and you will FTP to the router.  I don't think this method of FTP really has a good way to upload files to the FTP server, but it works okay for viewing directories, retrieving files from the FTP server, etc.  Filezilla is a better FTP client - I'm not dissing on it.  I'm just describing how to reproduce how I got media files to stream and play on a remote computer outside the network with my DNS-323.

Okay.  So that's how you connect.  You also need to make sure you have the FTP server on the DNS-323 setup correctly.  You need to setup a user account and then give it access to the right directories under the FTP server setup page.

Another interesting point is that this streaming ability seems to work using quicktime for audio files but when I try to stream video files to quicktime or media player it doesn't seem to stream, ie it downloads the file entirely before beginning playback.  So I've got streaming working to external devices for audio but not for video.

[joe_ottawa]

Hi MountainMan;

Thanks a lot again for all your help. streaming music sure works great now. i checked the Video and as you mentioned it download the file instead but i find it really fast (1.7GB movies took only 11 minute to complete download). it is great with pictures too, picture opens in a snap.

is there any way to be able to see photos as thumbnail to make it easier picking the picture to view?

[Cliff]

Rather than using FTP, I would recommend the free program Subsonic for consideration. I use it, and am pretty happy with it.

http://subsonic.sourceforge.net/

[joe_ottawa]

I downloaded the Subsonic, just not sure how can i make it see my music files on the DNS 323. can u shed some light on how to do that? is there anything to be installed on the DNS 323 itself? if so, how can i do that?
your help is greatly appreciated

[jrbilodeau]

for streaming music, there is also music browser http://musicbrowser.sourceforge.net/ for this you need to install a funplug with lighttpd though

[joe_ottawa]

So far i find FireFox very good in streaming music without the need to install any extras on the DNS 323, it plays any song instantly. with the FoxyTunes Plug in (powered by Yahoo) is Automatically finds all audio links on your page, turning your web page into a playlist.. pretty cool

[MountainMan]

So audio streaming works great.

Now we just need to figure out a configuration to stream video!  My asymmetric broadband connection has 1mbps uplink and I can sustain 700-900 kbps during FTP file copies from my NAS to a computer attached to a remote network.  This is easily fast enough to stream good quality video.

But I don't know of any applications that support doing so.  Anyone have any ideas?

I'd definitely be willing to install a program on the remote computer and I might even be willing to install a mod on my NAS, but would prefer to avoid that.

[jrbilodeau]

i was looking into this a while back, and with musicbrowser, the player also supports flv (flash video) you need to edit the php script to include serching for those files also but it does work. only thing is that you would need to convert your videos. other option is a free service called mycast.orb.com/ but you need to run it on your pc, and can point it to the files on the 323. ive used this with the Wii Browser to stream video, cause it can convert video to flv on the fly