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Author Topic: Mediatomb or Twonky?  (Read 12913 times)

shabuboy

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Mediatomb or Twonky?
« on: February 27, 2012, 04:45:21 PM »
Hello,

Just wondering if anyone has any preference or recommendations for mentioned UPnP software available for the DNS-320.

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albert

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Re: Mediatomb or Twonky?
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2012, 09:13:56 PM »
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't TwonkyMedia require license (ie. not free) to run? Mediatomb on the other hand is open source.
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shabuboy

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Re: Mediatomb or Twonky?
« Reply #2 on: February 29, 2012, 10:40:57 AM »
I'll be da^%$#@!!!!

You are right Albert! Thank you.

Funny thing, Uli's procedure does not mention $$. But then, the link has not been updated lately.
http://nas-tweaks.net/144/installation-of-twonkymedia-server-6-on-the-conceptronic-ch3mnas-and-the-d-link-dns-320-and-dns-343/

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baltzatu

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Re: Mediatomb or Twonky?
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2012, 12:13:10 AM »
You might want to try Debian Squeeze (it's available here - the installation process is non-distructive and you can revert your system to its initial state anytime you want) + miniDLNA (package available here). Works like a charm on my device and a LG TV (subtitles and whatnot). The downside of using Debian Squeeze is that your network/FTP shares will disappear every time your device restarts. Me - I can live with that :)
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investindy

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Re: Mediatomb or Twonky?
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2012, 03:09:19 PM »
Interested in the squeeze.  What do you mean by shares will be lost?  My mapped drives?  All my permissions are wiped away for my three users?

Like to know before I dive in.

Thanks!
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baltzatu

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Re: Mediatomb or Twonky?
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2012, 10:46:15 PM »
I mean all shares defined in Management - Account Management - Network Shares (network and FTP), including Volume_1 (I only have one disk installed). As I said, it doesn't bother me too much (being a home user and having an UPS), but, if you use it as a file/FTP server and you have a lot of shares, it might be unpleasant (restoring saved settings doesn't work). Your defined users/groups are not affected.

Something similar happened when I had FFP installed (at reboot, only Volume_1 share remained untouched). Maybe it's only my device... I really don't know (didn't had another one available to verify).

You're welcome. Anytime :)
« Last Edit: March 03, 2012, 10:50:20 PM by baltzatu »
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Re: Mediatomb or Twonky?
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2012, 11:42:55 AM »
Im using twonky a few months now not one issue. You do pay but also get a free trial to test it out first. I dont pay for much but I paid for that  ;D Maybe that says something about it
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nikolav

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Re: Mediatomb or Twonky?
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2012, 09:24:56 AM »
Quote from: baltzatu on March 03, 2012, 12:13:10 AM
You might want to try Debian Squeeze (it's available here - the installation process is non-distructive and you can revert your system to its initial state anytime you want) + miniDLNA (package available here). Works like a charm on my device and a LG TV (subtitles and whatnot). The downside of using Debian Squeeze is that your network/FTP shares will disappear every time your device restarts. Me - I can live with that :)

Hi, baltzatu!
Did you have some problems installing miniDLNA? When i try to run it with "service minidlna start
" i get: "Starting minidlna: minidlna/usr/sbin/minidlna: error while loading shared libraries: libexif.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
 failed!"
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