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I know I am a total noob and have seached the forums.
Can someone answer my simple question please.
I have a dns-323 ( 1.06 fw ) and an xbox 360. Is there any benefit using twonky ( or other media software, eg mediatomb etc ) as I have the 1.06 fw? That fw streams to my xbox fine, so am I missing something obvious here?
Thx in advance.
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I just went from using the 1.06 firmware's built-in UPnP to Twonky ver. 4.4.11, and I bought a license for Twonky after using it for about two days, if that tells you anything. Well worth the $29.95; it just plain works.
First off, it re-indexes/refreshes its media database about a hundred kazillion times faster than D-Link's server. Seriously, I think it takes about 60-90 seconds to refresh all my media with Twonky, whereas D-Link's UPnP took between 30-35 minutes!
Further, the granularity of control you have over which folders you'd like Twonky to monitor and serve up over UPnP is awesome; for example, you can select multiple folders on both drives. You can also define how you want those folder trees presented at the media extender device (in our cases, the Xbox 360), what each node presents (e.g. you can define that for the music tree, first display artist, then an alphabetical list using just the first letter of the artist for quicker navigation, etc.), how often they should refresh, etc.
On top of all that, I was having problems creating h.264/AVC MPEG-4 files that would stream correctly from D-Link's UPnP to the 360, well, the minute I converted to Twonky's UPnP, all of those files streamed without a hitch.
Anyhow, as you can see, I'm pleased with it :-)
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Many thx. Just the sort of reply I wanted. Now to find a guide to install it.
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Yeah, it's incredibly easy to install. In fact, Twonky's got an automated installer, so all you have to do is enable telnet on the DNS-323 with Fonz fun_plug or whatever way you want to do that, then run the automated installer that I believe just unpacks the files to the main drive and adds the twonky.sh service to the end of the fun_plug startup script.
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