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[slyder]

Frustrated with the amount of time Dlink was taking with getting some basic capabilities into the Media Server part, I elected to use a 3rd party product.. First Installed fun_plug5 and enabled/configured mediatomb to serve all my media.. worked ok.. but NAS is a little underpowered for transcoding.. but I could get it to directly feed MKVs to my DNS-750 so wasn't worried about transcoding MKV's since the 750 directly reads them.  Mediatomb giving me problems with varouis other formats however, the I kept searching...

Welcome Twonky!!!  Already had funplug installed so Twonky took 10 minutes to install and initially configure with basic settings.  Reboot NAS.. Voila!.. everything works perfectly.. Hasn't failed on any video I"ve thrown at it... No more Dlink Media server, tversity is uninstalled and only the NAS is providing Media services to my twin 750's and Xbox360 without issue.

Highly recommended for all those having codec issues with the NAS etc.  Least were the DSM-750's are concerned.. Twonky is well worth the $40 .. cost me more in aspirin for the headaches it was causing till I switched.

Dlink should license Twonky for inclusion into their NAS's and not reinvent the wheel.. Likely costs more to deveop and support than it would to provide a license product that actually works.

Just my comments

[bripab007]

Even better, it's $29.95, not $40!

[slyder]

Approx cost in Canadian bucks!.. I suffer exchange woes!

[hilaireg]

Agreed ... problem is though, that D-Link probably can't purchase the license at a cheap enough price point to make it part of the product.

Also, keep in mind that warranty support can give you grief for funplugging the device as it's considered as voiding your warranty.

Cheers,

[slyder]

Well.. Funplug isn't really a hack at all, simply an extension of the OS and it doesn't even hack that.. If I was modifying it at a hardware level, flashing my own bios I"d see there point.. but the funplug and twonky reside on the HD.. it doesn't hack the system and easily removed by simply reformatting the drives.. it in no way invades the dlink system or bios nor does it flash anything... so I'd fail to see how that would stand up in court.  besides

If this NAS fails due to hardware failure and not software/os related failures and Dlink chooses to not honor a warranty on it, then its cheap enough to for me to change my loyalties to another OEM who supplies the twonky and/or a working media server application...

and if dlink actually prioritized resolving the issues that customers have with their products, especially when 3rd party providers have already solved the issue.. then all of this would be pointless and we'd be happily content with DLinks media server...

Its now March, version 1.06 has been out since late last year and folks are screaming for solutions to simple things... 3 or 4 months is enough time for such a simple device..

Open source the firmware and I'll bet the community has the problems and feature requests resolved in a month!!!!

[mig]

Also, keep in mind that warranty support can give you grief for funplugging the device as it's considered as voiding your warranty.

In reality, fun_plug-ing will only void "what is left" of your D-Link warranty after you purchase the device (providing you are the original purchaser).  The warranty will expire, all by itself, in a (IMHO small) finite period of time and under a variety of conditions.

The risk is, of course, always left up to you.

[fordem]

Well.. Funplug isn't really a hack at all, simply an extension of the OS and it doesn't even hack that.. If I was modifying it at a hardware level, flashing my own bios I"d see there point.. but the funplug and twonky reside on the HD.. it doesn't hack the system and easily removed by simply reformatting the drives.. it in no way invades the dlink system or bios nor does it flash anything... so I'd fail to see how that would stand up in court.  besides

If this NAS fails due to hardware failure and not software/os related failures and Dlink chooses to not honor a warranty on it, then its cheap enough to for me to change my loyalties to another OEM who supplies the twonky and/or a working media server application...

and if dlink actually prioritized resolving the issues that customers have with their products, especially when 3rd party providers have already solved the issue.. then all of this would be pointless and we'd be happily content with DLinks media server...

Its now March, version 1.06 has been out since late last year and folks are screaming for solutions to simple things... 3 or 4 months is enough time for such a simple device..

Open source the firmware and I'll bet the community has the problems and feature requests resolved in a month!!!!

The cost of warranty support is not just limited to replacing failed (or bricked) hardware - there is a significant cost for the time spent determining that a hardware replacement is required, and this is where third party firmware and software add-ins like fun_plug have their greatest impact ...

Is that glitch that Tom, **** & Harry are screaming about, that you cannot duplicate in your lab, caused by non-DLink-hardware (that Hitachi disk that is the subject of a sticky above), OS related (there are numerous complaints about folks having problems with Vista & Mac OS X), a bug in the firmware (1.02's 2GB limitation), or the DNS-323 hardware itself - and here I have no examples to offer, my A1 rev hardware seems to work just fine.

By the way - the firmware is opensource, the sourcecode is available for download ...

[mig]

By the way - the firmware is opensource, the sourcecode is available for download ...

Well, the firmware is supposed to be available; however, despite my requests on this forum,
and the "other un-official" DNS-323 forum, and direct email to D-Link, FWv1.06 has yet (after
being released for two months) to be posted on D-Link's FTP site.

[abellofi]

Since Twonky is running off of the HD, do your HD's still sleep on schedule?

[bripab007]

Yes, mine still go to sleep as normal.  They do wake up at least every 8 hours, when I have Twonky scheduled to rescan the media folders.

[mrwinky]

Is there an insturction set to install twonky on the dns?

Currently my 360 will only read certain avi's.... I have about 500 on it, and 2 360's that I would love to be able to watch movies on, I've tried tversity through a pc, but it seems ot crash more then its up. And I just tried WM11, but it wont allow a the xbox 360 to see movies that I've added from a map'd network drive. This sounds like my fix. Just wondering if someone has some detailed instructions on how to do it, and does this mean I lose the data on my drives?

Thanks Winky

[bripab007]

Yup, go here and read up on how to install ffp (fonz fun_plug):  http://wiki.dns323.info/howto:ffp

Then go here to download and install Twonky for the DNS-323:  http://www.twonkyforum.com/unsupported/4.4.11/

[mrwinky]

I've installed funplug and twonky... when I'm in the twonky server, I've added my download_movies directory (its on the other drive from the server) clicked update content. but at the server status it shows no videos??


Any ideas?


Winky

[ttmcmurry]

Wrong forum for Twonky support.     

Try here...

[steven2583]

Has anyone got trancoding working on the 6.X TwonkyServer.  I'm trying to transcode Flac and Apple Lossless to WAV or LPCM.  It's just isn't working.  I'm trying to use ffmpeg.  I'm trying to use windows media player for testing and all that it get are X on the file and it tries to play but doesn't and skips to the next song in 2 seconds.  I Don't want to install Flac codecs on the computer since I want to test out conversion to WAV or PCM.  When I run ffmpeg manually it produces a file.  How do I find out where TwonkyServer is writing the temporary file after ffmpeg begins transcoding and the Twonky begins to send it out.  I'm not that concerned with flac but Apple lossless is what I really want transcoded to wav to send to my Oppo 93 blue-ray player.  Any help would be appreciated.  Twonky support wasn't much help.  Just told me that transcoding in general is not supported.