I agree. My past experience with transcoding has been bad. I tried twonky in the past running under WinXP Quad core and the clients struggled to stream the movies because the server could not keep up...and these were only DVD VOB files..i.e. Standard Definition. So for me Trancoding is a non-flyer on my HP-N40L microserver which has low-spec AMD dual-cores. There's no way they can transcode HD on the fly AND stream simultaneously. May be the new s/w is a bit more efficient...may try it.
How to know latest version ?
Go to =2&t=7653
Look at NAS versions, you have a link to 7x version, at this time it's -Special/
Find in this list the "Linux PowerPC glibc 2.2.5" at this time it's -Special/twonky-powerpc-glibc-2.2.5-special-7.0.9.zip
I did find it necessary to add one more step at the end of your instructions (perhaps due to the new Duo firmware version?):
Edit the file /etc/nas/service_startup/twonky and change "disabled" to "enabled".
[PS. I see this step will not be necessary with your latest script!]
BUT I've a problem in the WD My Book Live gui, in the multimedia section, under the enable/disable twonky option.
Indeed, I don't see anymore the software's version, neither the number of files in each category (movie, music and pictures). There's nothing, it stays empty, even if I ask a re-analysis of the server.
Hy Dav-M. Great job. Thx a lot! I upgraded succesfully yesterday and I tested a little bit my Samsung TV. All worked fine. But now I a problem appeared. The twonky has stopped and I have a licence error message: "Your trial version has expired. If you have previously entered a license key, try restarting your device running TwonkyServer." So i can do nothing in the moment, not even putting in my own bought twonky licence key now.
as to the issue of Fast Forwarding functionality when playing VOB files
I would suggest posting that question on the twonky community site
as this wiki thread is about installing and upgrading twonky on the wd mbl nas
and it would be best to keep it that way, as to not stray to far off topic
I have MBL 1TB (02.42.02-012). I installed Twonky 7 (twonky-powerpc-glibc-2.2.5-7.2.1) and work fine with one problem :( Subtitle does not appear in my PS3. I tried subtitles in srt and txt format with film in avi and mkv format. Can you help?
Hello!
Thanks a lot for the detailed instruction.
Unfortunately, it didnt work out the way I wanter and I really need help.
I ran all instructions at once and a problem occurred at one point.
I started downloading the newer version but it didn't work. At the same time, the 5 version was moved to the folder twonky5old, and the newer version didn't install. I cant restart the twonky as it say that no file is found. When I try to download the 7 version to the /etc/local/twonky folder, it says "no space left on the device".
Chmod to 777 didn't help. There is a lot of space available.
Is there any way I can proceed to update or reverse the old 5 version?
I am using putty for this, device WD MY BOOK LIVE.
I do hope you can help me!!!! Thanks a lot in advance.
Sorry to report the same disconnecting problem with Twonky 7.0.8.-special and my Samsung LE32C650 and a Samsung Blueray player. Everything is working fine until I follow step 9 - 12 and reboot. Does anybody have any suggestions?
I was suppose (wrong) that in MBLD the switch name as change from twonky to another name, but if you have 'disabled' when you try to start then the switch name still twonky even if you don't have twonky in MBLD.
hi Dav-M,i'm newbie, i already try your step by step. until step 9, i try to play movie from samsung D5000 LEDTV,its ok . after that, i restart my BookLive , it's turn to 5.1.9, so i do step 2 to stop and step 10-12. and my twonky back again to 7.0.5, but my problem is :
1. i play movie around 12-20second from my samsung tv, disconect. everytime.
2. i already buy twonky 6, so my twonky is Full Version
Turns out I had two instances of twonkyserver running. I think this is because I'd ended up with both a script called "twonky" and one called "twonkysh" in /etc/initd (I hadn't read the instructions closely enough!)
Very interesting, but I highly doubt that this caused the problem on my Twonky. I copy/pasted all the instruchtions into my putty window and I notices that there are two commands in step 11. I would like to test it anyways, could you please tell me wether you removed the "twonky" or the "twonky(dot)sh" file?
/etc/init.d/twonky stop and start doesn't work either
I tried to stop the server, delete everything in var/twonky and restart the server. Doesn't work.
Tried the mv /usr/local/twonkymedia-5 /usr/local/twonkymedia-5old and reboot.
Still see two Twonkys:
What's worth noting is that twonkystarter is a v7 script, so I we've got two instances of the new version running and what's also interesting is that one cluster has the webdav and proxy and the other doesn't. That makes me think one instance is started from /etc/initd/twonky and the other somewhere else. Could it be mionet or the mediacrawler? I've disabled Twonky at mionet's http: mybooklive site but I still have 2 instances fired up on reboot.
OK, run etc/init.d/twonky stop twice and had no instance running. Then I run etc/init.d/twonky start once and had one instance running and no disconnects (YEAH!).
Then I removed the checker in the WebUi (settings/media). Twonky stopped, I did a etc/init.d/twonky start and had one instance again.
-When i run the command to stop twonky, both the twonkyserver and the twonky starter stop.
-I also noticed that the server disconnects sooner when i watch a large/high quality video (couple of minutes), and it takes longer when i watch a lower quality video(10 minutes).
Hi, I finally managed to install twonky 7.0.8 successfully on my book live. However I found out later that the list of media receivers does not show. It only has the 'Enable sharing for new media receivers automatically' option. Does anyone have the same problem or is it just me?
Arch Oboler was a true radio pioneer, best known for taking over Lights Out in the thirties, and combining his inventive and gruesome horror stories with liberal anti-communist and anti-fascist segments. He made his first movie in 1940, a futuristic take on how easily fascists could infiltrate and take over USA. It was originally made His fourth film, Five, was an anti-fascist moral tale with religious overtones set in a post-apocalyptic, radioactive near future. The Twonky was certainly a departure from style in that sense, on the other hand most of his best radio scripts were imbued with a macabre humour. The problem was that Oboler never really learned to understand the medium of film, and his scripts often tended to be radio with pictures. This is true for The Twonky. Even the special effects can be listened to, rather than watched, and everthing is explained in dialogue.
I am also having trouble with the Twonky app on a WD Ex2 with OS5. After installing the app from the WD app store and selecting my Roku device the app prompted me to install the Twonky channel on the Roku, the Roku responded and installed the channel, all my content in the shared folders I set up is available on the Twonky app via my computer but when I click on the Twonky Channel on my Roku I get the message: Channel not available: twonky is no longer available, you may want to remove the channel from the home screen.
Thank you, I will have to play with that tomorrow. I'm currently wired to my desktop using an HDMI cord and steam through my computer. I really want to eliminate that "middle man" and I'm not crazy about Plex. Is there something special I need to input into the Twonky app to have it direct to the Roku Media Server app?
Do you have the Twonky app installed on your ex2 ? To do that go to your dashboard. Then to Apps. you see the Apps choice across the top. There are many apps to can install. Choose Twonky and install it. The next step is to configure Twonky. Once you have installed it it will appear on the left as installed. Click on the twonky server button then choose to configure. The configure choice is right above the run button. The choice will open the configure widow. Then go to shared folders on the left. Navigate over to create this .....Your home drive needs to be where you navigate.
I have never figured out how to use Plex as a DNLA server. I do know it is possible. There have been problems between Twonky and WD that seem to have come wtih firmware updates. The techs at WD are quickly learning. WD has an ios app which makes it very easy to reach my drive on all my mac devices. I believe the Roku has enough of a user base the make that a possibility for the Roku as well. I do know that twonky was used as WD's built in DNLA software prior to going to WD os5.
Your choice, but maybe you should check if the commands really worked before going to the old one. Did you remove the directory before going to the v7? Did you stop the old twonky before installing the new one? If not, try to reboot. And add the output of:
Hi! By following your tutorial I could successfully run twonky yesterday. But while it was searching for media it froze and since then I could not restart it. Even though I stopped it and started it again from putty, I cannot connect with the browser. How can I check what happened? Thank you
About skipping the step, I doubt its possible unless you somehow modded the twonky on the TV. Ehat do you want to change about volume_1? the name? You can change its name by editing the samba conf files. There is no option in the dns-320 to change the name, but it is possible
I have successfully installed the Twonky Server kuro-box-pro-special-7.0.9 on DNS-325 as per the instruction. I am trying to purchase the license, but since I am windows user do I need to purchase TwonkyManager or TwonkyServer? Any help would be appreciated.
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