You need to be using Twonky 7 or later to make use of this feature and the PS3 profile applied to the IP address of the PS3 in Twonky media renderer control panel, it should auto guess this but it's not 100% accurate. Seems like it provides more hindrance than benefit IMO.īob5AD wrote:There are only two DLNA compliant media formats WMV and MPEG-2 that shows you how out of date the standard is.Īll consumer NAS do not have the processing power to transcode video and audio in real time, they have low end CPU's and you need a high end CPU for this task.Ī trick they can do is a real time repackaging of the media so h.264/mkv is swapped into h.264/ts which the PS3 can play because it supports the h.264 codec just not the mkv container however this trick will not work for all media as the PS3 must support the codecs within the container. The best option may be to convert non DLNA-compliant files accordingly using handbrake or something similar. On-the-fly transcoding may not be the best option in any case (as mentioned above). Shouldn't the NAS start transcoding in this instance? And if so, where would the newly transcoded file be located? Somewhere on the NAS I imagine since when you tick the transcoding option, it says "this option uses more drive space". Because when I select a non-DLNA compliant file, I just get an error saying "invalid format" or "file cannot be played". After further reading up on the issue, since this particular set-up is utilizing DLNA-compliant media, I learned that some of my files are not DLNA-compliant. I was able to get the PS3 to recognize my Twonky media server only I run into the same issues with certain files not being able to be played. I just recently paired my TS-119 with my PS3. I know very little about PS3's, (I'm not a gamer), but you might get better Video compatibility if you intall TVersity on your PS3. As on-the-fly-Transcoding is unlikely to work for you, your only real option is to "convert" your Videos to a more "PS3-friendly" format. MKV is just a "container", it can contain multiple different file formats within the container, this is why some MKV's play while others do not. Twonky does support "transcoding" of Videos to change video formats on the fly, but you are unlikely to get tolerable performance with "transcoding" due to the slow CPU and small amount of RAM available on your TS-412 ARM-based NAS. TwonkyMedia6/TwonkyMedia7 provides another method of streaming, but regardless of the "streaming method" used, it won't change your PS3's ability to play media files. These tutorials involve using LMS (formerly known as Squeezebox Server™). There are QNAP Tutorials: Install & Set up Squeezebox Server™ on QNAP NAS for Your Favorite Squeezebox™ Players & Establish a PC-less Multimedia Center for Sony PlayStation 3 Or does it just allow the PS3 to see it as a server on the network? My question is, if I setup Twonky, does that change the format while streaming it to the PS3, so it'll play anything? I'm fairly new to the scene, and would like to get my PS3 setup to stream the media from my NAS.īefore I do this, I managed to share it once before straight from my PC, and the PS3 couldn't play some of the MKV files, some it wouldn't recognise the format, others it wouldn't.
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