Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Lupismaximus]

Well, I have been experiencing this since the first firmware release by Dlink. I bought the DNS-323 (now FW 1.05) as a cheap NAS to stream my Music, Video, and PICS to PC, Xbox360 Elite, and PS3. Prior to the DSN-323, I purchased the DIR-655 (now FW 1.21, HW ver. A2) router. I also have the Dlink GE Switch DGS-2208 that acts as my main switch, which then connects to two DGS-2205 switches. I have the DGS-2205 switches in my media room and one in my computer room.

One port on the back of the DGS-2208 plugs into the DIR-655. Each DGS-2205 plugs into the 2208, and the devices finally plug into the DGS-2205s. I did this so I wouldn't overload the CPU on the router in the event I need to stream large amounts of data, and ensure that I can continue to stream data I ever had to take down my router for maintenance.

Long story short, nothing is recognized on the XBOX, besides Media Center. Even after the new 11/19 XBOX360 Dashboard update. I can stream Netflix, in HD, to my Xbox360 without any problem, but it says it can't find any computers, when I try to search for the DNS-323 as a media source. Media Center even streams everything (Music, Video, and PICs) fine, but I [exploitive deleted] having to have my PC on to get content off of my DNS-323.

Since I experienced this problem early on, I also loaded TwonkyVision, and have never had any problems streaming with this software. I also would prefer to use the DNS-323's Upnp Media server, but I don't think Dlink has spent the time to have this work with media extenders.

I recently changed my DNS-323 config to Raid1, with two WD 750GB HD. Be sure to back up your data if you do this, because it wiped out my original drive, even though it stated it wouldn't. Any ways, the raid works great now, but I had to start from scratch. This is how I was able to test the XBOX and PS3 interaction without TwonkyVision.

What I did notice was that I was able to stream everything fine to the PS3. Go figure. The music and Video work great, but the pics take for ever to load. This also worked well with TwonkyVision previously, but it seems to work with the DNS-323's Upnp svr. One thing that I did notice was that the album art no longer shows up on the PS3, where it did when I was using TwonkyVision. Bottom line, the TwonkyVision Media Svr is far superior to the DNS-323 own media software, so I will continue to use this until Dlink gets off their rear to figure this out.

Sorry for the long post, but I figured many others are experiencing the same challenges I have. If anyone more recently comes across a way to do this direct, then please post. Thank you.

[D-Link Multimedia]

It was long but I did read it .

Anyways to address your point, 1.05 is NOT xbox 360 capable. In order to be seen by the Xbox 360 certain UPNP code needs to be presented to the Xbox 360 in order to be recognized as a UPNP AV server. In 1.05 this code is not present.

We have already posted the release notes for 1.06 even though the firmware is not available yet(still being verified) but in 1.06 the code IS present and is streaming to the xbox 360 we have here in lab.

Also regarding your Hard drive situation, we are working diligently to make sure things like this do not happen. Most likely either the drives were swapped or you used an already partitioned drive which confused the device into thinking the wrong drive was the one that needed to be formatted. I am sorry if this caused you any grief and hopefully will be resolved in the near future.

[Lupismaximus]

Dlink team,

Thank you for your response and confirmation that I wasn't doing something wrong, but rather the firmware wasn't capable of performing the task.

In regards to the data loss, it was very unfortunate!  I followed the instructions on your web page, so I am not sure where I went wrong to possibly confuse the unit.  My concern now is the units ability to recover from a disk failure.  As you know, Raid1 configuration should be able to rebuild the failed drive without any problems.  I do have concern surrounding it's ability to do this.  I now back up my important content, as a best practice, but I still believe that I shouldn't have to.  Please let me know your thoughts, which hopefully can make me feel more secure to trust the unit when, and/or if this failure should ever occur.

Thank you

[bigclaw]

I now back up my important content, as a best practice, but I still believe that I shouldn't have to.

That's a fallacy anyway. RAID does not replace backup.

[Halifaxax]

Any time frame as to when Firmware 1.06 is being released?

[boxst]

Mmmm .... it appears that the beta of 1.06 doesn't support Xvid?

I hope that gets fixed in the proper version and please release it soon!

Steve

[Icey]

Mmmm .... it appears that the beta of 1.06 doesn't support Xvid?

I hope that gets fixed in the proper version and please release it soon!

Steve

The problem isn't the 1.06 Firmware, its the XBOX that doesn's support XVID.

[boxst]

The problem isn't the 1.06 Firmware, its the XBOX that doesn's support XVID.

Hello

That isn't true.  If I have the file on my PC it happily streams to the Xbox.  Tvtorrents.com seems to favour xvid encoding for some reason.

Steve

[the bartender]

Mmmm .... it appears that the beta of 1.06 doesn't support Xvid?

its just a file server, its the media player (the 360) the determines if it can play a particular codec or not.

if you can see the file, but it doesnt play properly, then its a 360 issue. (360 supports certain codecs off of media card, that it wont play off of media share)

[Lupismaximus]

When I originally posted this message, I didn't realize that DNS-323 didn't support Xbox Streaming.  I got tired waiting for FW 1.06, so I reverted to Twonky Media.  I used it before, and it is working excellent now. 

As far as Codec support, the previous poster is correct.  It is up to the end unit to understand the codec and not the server.

For Xbox, I stream AVI.XVID.AC3 all day long.  Please see the link to understand what codecs both the Xbox and PS3 support.

XBOX360: http://support.xbox.com/support/en/us/xbox360/gamesandmedia/movies/videofaq/videoplaybackfaq.aspx

PS3: http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/video/filetypes.html

Now it is time to get my Popcorn Hour working with this thing!

[boxst]

Hello

What was confusing me is that Xvids (and only Xvids) wouldn't work from the DNS-323 but would work quite happily streaming from my PC (so it wasn't a Codec problem).

Eventually (thanks to another post on here) I found the problem to be the filenames.  By coincidence all the Xvids that I had used strange filenames (with [ and _ and multiple . or ') and that was the problem.  I still don't know WHICH of those characters or combinations cause the problem, but renaming the files to something else made them work.

Steve

[lee]

I too see the 323 but does not see any video have tried all the solutions posted here but still a no go will wait for next revision good luck!

[Abysal]

Ditto... DNS-323 v1.06 no go after defaults and resets. Time to fire up TVersity... it works and you can point this at the D-Link NAS. At least the NAS works fairly well.

BTW when you reset the DNS-323 back to defaults the device still keeps certain settings such as DNS servers and unpnp media folder location, even the the new defaults disable unpnp. This is typical quality from D-link product lines.

[DynamiK]

Hi all,
Yesterday I did the upgrade to 1.06 firmware version for my DNS323 and everything went smoothly.
I can see all the video and audio files on Xbox360... the problem is that, audio plays but video (avi) doesn't... giving me an error of 51-XXXXXXX.
I use NXE in Xbox.
Any help...?
D

[Buhric]

try entering a shorter name for you video files......

In my case I notice if the lenght of the PATH and FileName was over 70 char
I would get an error code when trying to play the video (DivX or Xvid)