DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

dastrix · 2008-03-12 12:37:18

Hello

I have installed the funplug for telnet access and installed Twonky. I have FLAC stored on my DNS-323 that I cannot play - anyone know how I can do this?

I'm accessing my DNS-323 from a PopCorn Hour NMT

Thanks
Kris

HaydnH · 2008-03-12 13:02:24

Looks like the popcorn hour device doesn't support flac so you'll have to convert them to another format.

sjmac · 2008-03-12 13:02:53

Does your player device support Flac?

If not, then this http://www.twonkymedia.com/Download/Add-ons/index.html suggests that you need to compile yourself a little binary to convert the wav. Or find a volunteer to do it for you :-)

I don't know if some other upnp server might have the transcoding built in? Anyone?

HaydnH · 2008-03-12 13:16:13

The newer SVN versions of mediatomb have transcoding I believe so the next release should support it - however transcoding on the dns-323 may not be possible/reliable due to the power of the box. You'd be better converting the files once on your PC rather than everytime you play them.

sjmac · 2008-03-12 13:23:46

I think you'd get away with transcoding an audio format, especially a lossless one like FLAC that was designed to be easy to decode. If I get a block of free time at home I might try it.

I wonder how hard it would be to decode WMA lossless - apparently FFMPeg can decode that now. Hmm.

dastrix · 2008-03-12 13:32:49

Hi Guys

The PopCorn Hour now supports it - yet to work out how!

Sjmac, that would be great if you can get it working!!

Thanks so much and thanks for having me here - the DNS is a great little box

kallehak · 2008-03-12 22:00:46

dastrix wrote:
Hello

I have installed the funplug for telnet access and installed Twonky. I have FLAC stored on my DNS-323 that I cannot play - anyone know how I can do this?

I'm accessing my DNS-323 from a PopCorn Hour NMT

Thanks
Kris

I'm using twonky and transcoding flac into wav. You can test my binaries if you want. The flac binaries are: http://www.jomenvisst.de/temp/flac.tgz which I have in fun_plug.d/
and the plug-in for twonky: http://www.jomenvisst.de/temp/flac_plugin.tgz which goes into twonky/cgi-bin/

It takes hardly no cpu at all to transcode flac into wav on the DNS-323.

dastrix · 2008-03-13 01:09:14

Thanks! Can you tell me how to install the binaries?? I assume I just extract the .tgz file into the cgi-bin folder and restart the device?

dastrix · 2008-03-13 03:00:27

I have done the above, can anyone tell me how to verify the plugin is running?

kallehak · 2008-03-14 08:44:41

Yes, you can test it by transcode a flac manually. Say you have test.flac in /mnt/HD_a2/ then you should be able(if I remember correctly) to run

./cgi-flac "?from=audio/audio/x-flac?to=audio/wav?source=/mnt/HD_a2/test.flac?tmp=."

and a test.flac.wav should be created in the cgi-bin dir and it should be playable.

dastrix · 2008-03-14 09:14:05

Thanks, I did away with Twonky and am just using the built in UPNP server as part of the DNS - works fine. Once I mounted a SMB share, I can play the FLAC files without too much drama (im reencoding everything because the player has a whinge about it)

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