Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

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Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

Zerosignal 1205319855|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

In vain I have been searching for a solution to my uShare problem not actually sharing anything…

Anyway I was poking around the twonky site specifically this page.

http://www.twonkyvision.com/Download/TwonkyMedia/TM4Technicians.html

It has the following ARM builds

1. Linux ARM big endian glibc 2.2.5
2. Linux ARM big endian uclibc 0.9.28
3. Linux ARM little endian glibc 2.2.5
4. Linux ARM little endian uclibc 0.9.28

My understanding is that the uclibc version 0.9.28 is the as used in the gumstix1151 builds we all use in the optware feeds.

I do not know enough about Linux to tell me if this will or will not function on this device yet - at least I don't know enough yet, I am learning quickly.

Some assistance from the gurus out there would be great.

Cheers

Chris

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jontank 1239605746|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I am stuck on the last part.
I have tried to do the /usr/local/TwonkyVision/twonkymedia, but i get no such file or directory.
here is an output

[root@Nas1 TwonkyVision]# ls -F
Linux-HowTo.txt resources/
RevisionHistory twonkymedia*
cgi-bin/ twonkymedia-armel-glibc-2.2.5-4.4.11-20090108.zip
licence-en.rtf twonkymedia-default.ini
plugins/ twonkymedia.sh*
radio.m3u twonkymediaserver*
[root@Nas1 TwonkyVision]# /usr/local/TwonkyVision/twonkymedia
-sh: /usr/local/TwonkyVision/twonkymedia: No such file or directory
[root@Nas1 TwonkyVision]#

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Z80 1205321234|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

A possible alternative, in case you have problems installing TwonkyVision could be MediaTomb. It is a SourceForge project and completely freeware. Although the frontend is not very nice, it worked for me almost out of the box. There is an Optware stream for it, so the installation is really simple, once you have Optware running (not a big thing). You could use MediaTomb as an in-between solution, until you get your full TwonkyVision installation.
Z80

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Zerosignal 1205321705|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks for the advice Z80.

I looked at mediatomb I do appreciate that they want to stay true to the original DLNA profile so they will not support the Xbox 360.

Just an FYI for yourself.

I downloaded "Linux ARM little endian uclibc 0.9.28" to my device and I have the twonkymedia server now running on my Western Digital MyBook, currently browsing the web interface right now.

I have done the following so far to install it.

created a directory under /usr/local/ called "TwonkyVision"

then the following

cd usr
cd local
cd TwonkyVision
wget http://www.twonkyvision.com/Download/4.4/twonkymedia-armel-uclibc-0.9.28.zip
/opt/bin/ipkg install unzip
/opt/bin/unzip twonkymedia-armel-uclibc-0.9.28.zip

wait till that completes then

/usr/local/TwonkyVision/twonkymedia

as far as streaming goes, so far my windows PC recognises the server so that is a start :)

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wolfie_man 1224019465|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

hey, there's a new version now - may as well use that than having to upgrade later -

wget http://www.twonkyvision.com/Download/4.4.9/twonkymedia-armel-uclibc-0.9.28-20081002.zip

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jontank 1239599602|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I followed the steps to download TwonkyVision but I when I entered in /opt/bin/ipkg it said 'No such file or directory'
Please help.

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Zerosignal 1205321863|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Further good news.

I added some music to the server.

Windows Media Player successfully connects to the UPNP server and streams it!

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Z80 1205323623|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks for the info.
I think I will still stick to MediaTomb, although the gui really sucks. But since I don't have an Xbox and only want to stream my music to a Denon receiver, I'm fine with it. What is the gui of TwonkyVision like? I didn't find any links to any screenshots at their site.

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Zerosignal 1205325754|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Further info.

Xbox 360 streaming works out of the box so to say it required no configuration from myself (both Xvid & MP3).

It looks as though the software correctly supports ID3 tags - however cannot be certain on that front until some more testing.

Downside of Twonky? It is not free it does costs $39.50 USD or 29.50EUR, but you do get a 30 day trial period in which to test the software.

If I am happy with it after 30 days I will be purchasing it.

Hope this has helped a few people.

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cydine 1205426971|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Nice job on finding this!

Works a lot better than ushare for streaming to xbox 360 - especially hi-def movies.

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teros 1205500441|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

ummm i downloaded the torrent for this ages ago never bothered to play with it it's pretty cool anyone know how to get it to autostart?

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Z80 1205504686|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

If by saing 'autostart' you mean: 'auto start each time I boot the device' then I have to tell you, there is no such a simple way as putting one file into the 'Autostart' folder.
The MBW is a GNU/Linux device and these devices follow the init routine while booting. While this is more or less a pretty advanced procedure, it all boils down to this:
There is a directory /etc/init.d where you can put a shell script to contain start and stop commands for anything you can think of. Have a look there, there are a lot of scripts there already. Additionaly, there are some scripts (or links to scripts) beginning with the letter S or K. All scripts beginning with 'S' are executed at startup with the first parameter containing 'start', all beginning with 'K' just before shutdown with the first parameter containing 'stop'.
Usually one makes one script for starting and stopping, containing different entries for the start and stop commands (look at /etc/init.d/mionet.sh for an example) and then puts two symbolic links into the directory: SXXmionet and KXXmionet, XX being a two-digit number. The numbers are used to enforce a certain sequence in which the scripts are called one after another.
Hope this helps.
For further information, refer to http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_04_02.html
but bear in mind that there is apparently only one run level on the MBW.
Z80

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wildandyc 1206110784|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi there - please forgive my ignorance as a new user of SSH (I used PuTTy under Win32).

I have installed and can execute the TwonkyMedia Server, BUT - when I close putty on my PC the Twonky service stops on the server - how do i exit Putty and have Twonky remain open.

I don't mind starting twonky if the server has to be restarted, power cuts etc. but need to know how to keep the service going - please forgive my green-ness and lack of linux/ssh ability.

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mozetti 1206112178|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

You should be able to just add "&" to the end of the command. That will keep a process running after you close the shell. So, if the command is:

usr/local/TwonkyVision/twonkymedia

Then just use:

usr/local/TwonkyVision/twonkymedia &

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wildandyc 1206189318|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi thanks for the suggestion but adding & to the command doesn't change it. I close the putty shell, and the process finishes too.

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wildandyc 1206196994|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Okay I solved it…………

I had to supress the hangup signal sent when you close PuTTy……….

nohup usr/local/TwonkyVision/twonkymedia &

Hope it can help others too

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Cardinal 1209231432|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

don't worry about surpressing the nohup - run it as a daemon. if you use the startupscript, it will daemonise for you, else turn twonkymedia -D

HtH

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ashworthacca 1225791720|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Can you please expand on "run it as daemon" ot "turn twonkymedia -D" please. Could you give a laymans step by step guide as I can't get Twonkymedia to stay open when I close Putty.

Kind regards

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frater 1225809803|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Why are you running twonkymedia?
You should run the script. The one with the ".sh"
Best practice is to create a symbolic link in /opt/etc/init.d

ln -s /usr/local/TwonkyVision/twonkymedia.sh /opt/etc/init.d/S90twonky
ln -s /usr/local/TwonkyVision/twonkymedia.sh /opt/etc/init.d/K90twonky

The original script has some errors, but I've corrected those.
Look for it here:

http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-72617/installing-twonky

If you run my script, you will have to daemonize it too as it waits 2 minutes in case your box has an uptime in minutes

/usr/local/TwonkyVision/twonkymedia.sh start &

If you create a symbolic link starting with a Capital 'S' (like S90twonky), the script will already know you want to start the service. If the symbolic link is a capital 'K', it means it will stop the service.

Normally, there's no need to end the script with an ampersand as your harddisk is probably running for a while…..
I only included it because my satellite-receive (a linux-box as well) is too busy when it just booted……

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ashworthacca 1225814490|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Many thanks I'll give it a go and post my results.

Regards

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ashworthacca 1225874923|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Brilliant, finally got it working…….understanding the vi editor is the hardest bit but got there in the end.

Regards

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Redrocker 1208306601|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Yes that last post was useful. But I'm having a hard time with the startup script. Can anybody be of help?

Ps: Nice work guy's

I ended up figuring it out. Very easy

THX Guy's

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wildandyc 1208583125|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

@Redrocker :

Have you managed to achieve autostart - do you wish to share your solution ?

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glfp 1208850295|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi there !

I also installed this software (after many tentative with ushare and similar to work correctly) and I'm quite happy.

I have only some troubles with photo made in past years that (in "by date" order) are displayed as 04/2008 !!! Very strange !!

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madmarka 1209197565|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi There

I am a total N00b on linux so please bear with me… I was able to download the package from the command line but couldn't unzip it (I'm guessing I don't have IPKG on my MyBook). So instead I used WinRar on my PC to unzip the package and then used WinSCP to put the files on there at /usr/local/TwonkyVision.

Now my problem is that I cannot seem to run the program from the comand line using Putty.

If I navigate to /usr/local/TownkyVision and then enter twonkymedia on the command line I get "-bash: twonkymedia: command not found" however the file is there.

If I execute the file using WinSCP as either root or the user I created on there it runs absolutely fine.

I have set every permission against the file to allow everything and even changed ownership of the file to the user I created but I still have the same problem.

Obviously once I can run it from the command line I guess I just then add an entry into the /etc/initteb as per this
::sysinit:/usr/local/TwonkyVision/twonkymedia to get it to start on reboot.

Thanks for your help/guidance in advance :D

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etsme 1209567379|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

here is the file I wrote to get twonky to start via a S90twonkyview file in /etc/init.d

what I donr is just modified the mionet deamon file and renamed it to S90twonkyview……. here's how it looks

#!/bin/sh
#

twonkyview=/usr/local/TwonkyVision/twonkymedia

start() {
echo "Starting twonky"
$twonkyview start
}

stop() {
echo "Stoping twonky"
$twonkyview stop
}

restart() {
stop
start
}

case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
restart
;;
cleanup)
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac

exit $?

=======================================================================

then you must set the chmod to 755 on the new file so it can be executable at startup with this command

1. chmod 755 /etc/init.d/S90twonkyview

then reboot and it will run twonky no bother what so ever
happy streaming people

john

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aphilgr1 1209691259|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

No matter what I do, I cannot get Twonkymedia to run. I keep getting -bash: /usr/local/TwonkyVision/twonkymedia: No such file or directory.

I have put the files in the right folders, I have used "chmod 700 twonkym*", I have double checked my typing 20 times but nothing.

Help guys!

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alephsmith 1209693177|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Please post the output of

ls -lah /usr/local

and

ls -lah /usr/local/TwonkyVision

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aphilgr1 1209737401|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

[root@MyBookWorld ~]# ls -lah /usr/local
total 24K
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Oct 27 2006 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4.0K Jan 18 12:41 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 18 12:41 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 27 2006 lib
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4.0K Oct 13 2006 samba
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 18 12:41 wdc
[root@MyBookWorld ~]# ls -lah /usr/local/TwonkyVision
/usr/local/TwonkyVision: No such file or directory
[root@MyBookWorld ~]#

However, I do have this directory:

[root@MyBookWorld ~]# cd usr
[root@MyBookWorld usr]# cd local
[root@MyBookWorld local]# cd TwonkyVision
[root@MyBookWorld TwonkyVision]# ls
Linux-HowTo.txt plugins twonkymedia-armel-uclibc-0.9.28.zip
RevisionHistory radio.m3u twonkymedia-default.ini
cgi-bin resources twonkymedia.sh
licence-en.rtf twonkymedia twonkymediaserver
[root@MyBookWorld TwonkyVision]#

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alephsmith 1209739668|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

At the last stage run pwd (print working directory).

You will find that you are not in /usr/local/TwonkyVision but /root/usr/local/TwonkyVision

Look in the first line of of the second block of code, the tilde mark (~) indicated you are in the HOME directory of the logged in user. i.e. /root.

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aphilgr1 1209889091|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

You where absolutely right. It works. Thanx

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wildandyc 1210188621|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

All up and running - thanks for the solution. Good to see a bash shell solution whence most posters offer theory rather than practice. Much appreciated.

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aphilgr1 1210230424|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

NOOB HELP Part II

I lost the web interface this time. Luckily PuTTy still works!

There are 2 possible reasons that this happened:

1. When I tried to install Twonky, I extracted it several times in different folders (mostly by accident), then I manually deleted twonky files and folders one by one. I remember once (by accident again), instead of deleting folder cgi-bin, I deleted the folder bin using "rm - r bin" - stupid me. I think it must have been in /root/usr/ but it could have been anywhere else. However I thought I saved it since I rebooted my book and it worked like a charm. I even managed to make Twonky work after that.

2. Trying to make Twonky to Autostart, been in /etc/init.d/ I used:

"cp mionet.sh.bak S90twonkyview"

then

"vi S90twonkyview"

Then I copied the autostart script from the post above and right-clicked it in vi. I remember that the script was pasted correctly however, it seemed like I had triggered some action because PuTTy flashed 2 or 3 times just as when you hit enter being at the bottom. Then after reboot I have no web interface.

Any ideas?

How about a remote firmware update to restore initial state, is it possible? And how to find the correct firmware version without web inf?

Thanks in advance

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wildandyc 1210398210|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

You may want to look at starting a fresh and rescueing your mybook at http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/rescue-procedure

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aphilgr1 1210594911|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I am aware of this procedure however I would like to avoid the hassle and leave this as my last option.

The important thing is I can still use Putty to access my MBW and I can even manually start Twonkymedia. Is there a way to fix the Web interface like manually start it or something and perform a system restore?

If not then how about a remote image restore from within PuTTy?

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aphilgr1 1211190179|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

The procedure described here: http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/rescue-procedure is definitively not for me :-(

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continuity 1211666584|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks for the info, i know have twonky streaming media to my 360 :D

I hope they hurry up and relase the transcoding engine. Although i have a feeling our little mybooks wont have the power to transcode on the fly :(

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AquaFire 1212555555|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hey Everyone,

Thanks for the valuable information you have shared. Infact I first installed MediaTomb, but then i was not able to see my media files recognized at my PS3 via MediaTomb, then reading this thread I decided to give TwonkyMedia a try.

Please note that I am not able to uninstall MediaTomb first, since I dont know the method to do so. I have just disable its startup script from the directory /etc/init.d , so MediaTomb does not runs in the background every time I start MyBook World Edition I (500GB).

By following the instructions on this thread I am able to install Twonky Media and start it as a service via puTTY, I have given my MBWE a static IP of 192.168.1.10, however in my web browser I can only see the first page of the Twonky server running. (http://192.168.1.10:9000) , when I click to go to the TwonkyMedia settings and configuration page (http://192.168.1.10:9000/config) the web browser keeps waiting for ever without a response from the MBWE. I have also defined the add static route entry command found the (Howto.txt) found the TwonkyMedia setup file from the website.

Its kinda strange and I have'nt been able to make out a clue. Can anyone please help me on that, any other specific info which I can share to let you provide a solution, please reply for that.

Regards,
S.F.Hasan.

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AquaFire 1212872904|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thank you Everyone,

Despite being totally new to Linux, by the tremendous support and invaluable knowledge shared at this site via testing/experiments by different users, in a week's time I have successfully replaced my original 500GB (MyBook World I) with a Seagate 1 TB HardDisk, have installed a couple of applications via console (puTTY) and Optware.

Most of all , I was able to install and run Twonky Media automatically for all my digital media collection. So as opposed to my previous practice when I has to keep my PC on all the times for Tversity DLNA server, the only thing now on all the time is MBWE fully functional as a standalone DLNA server compatible with PS3 for all standard and High Definition video rendering.

Thanks everyone, the mission seems accomplished for the moment, but would love to try out new possibilities for which i am reading around in the forums/articles.

Keep up the good work.

Best Regards,
AquaFire.

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funny4life 1215127791|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

First I would like to thank everyone, because without their instructions, I would be completely lost.

On to my question…

I followed the instuctions and was able to install and get twonky to run. I was just wondering if there is a different text editor that I could use to edit the files as to setup the automatic load on system start. The second thing that i was wondering is, is it possible to get this to work with the PS3. Most of my videos are dixv or xvid and they do work when played directly from a usb connected hard drive, yet PS3 is unable to play them, says files unsupported.

They do however play with my Xbox, so I am simply wondering why not on the PS3.

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funny4life 1215305539|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Ok, I got it working, simply had to tell twonky that one of the connections is a PS3

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steveds 1216311550|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi guys, well basically to start with i've got some knowledge of all this but i am still pretty much a noob! ha! I have a Majik DS and a Western Digital Mybookworld edition 2. With this i want my nokia n810 to stream the music to my ds threw my nas drive but for this i need to install twonky onto my nas drive, i saw a post about usr/local/ but i cant find this anywhere please could some one give me abit more (step by step please :] )of a desriptive installation guide to install it, will be very very grateful i've been at this for about a week! Thanks alot, Steve!

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dizzyraider 1216893319|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi, I have followed Zerosignal's steps and successfully installed Twonky on to my MBW, but I'm still very confused on how to have twonky do auto start. If anyone have an idea, please give me a hand on how to achieve this. Greatly appreciated the help.

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frater 1216916319|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Complete installation can be done like this: http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-72617/installing-twonky

Add the 2 lines to post_network_start.sh

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saary 1217451212|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

is it a must to install optware inorder to install twonkymedia? newbie!

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frater 1217464926|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Is there some special reason why you DON'T want to install Optware?

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saary 1217496466|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

i'm just afraid of missing it up because i'm a newbie. and all what i need is to install twonkymedia to be able to stream avi to my PS3.

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Kulfadir 1217627476|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

New Version 4.4.6 Released.

wget http://www.twonkyvision.com/Download/4.4.6/twonkymedia-armel-uclibc-0.9.28-20080730.zip

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Rustynutt 1218441932|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Nubie post! Be warned :)

Hi all, sorry this kind of spans more than twonkyvision, but think I'm up to that point.

Been toying with a MBWE for several days now, and jumping back and fourth beginning Linux and Vi command pages :)

My initial goal was to just have a simple server to host video and photos without having to leave the PC running day and night. Like everyone else, discovered the limitations of the MioNet software.

As with most everything, my goal shifted after progress was made here and there.

Without installing MioNet, updated the firmware via WD site. Unfortunately discovered that in doing so downgraded the included software package. Re-installing the compiler isn't at the top of my list right now. Going in for back surgery this month, and will spend recovery time setting up my xx060 box to access the MBWE and compile on that machine. SCSI Ethernet and the lot!

Applied the "fix" to allow assess via ssh, downloaded PuTTy and WinSCP for the PC.

Got the www server up and running, at least I could see "Hello World" and some jpg files on the drive from work after following the example set up.

Next trouble I ran into was connecting the USB device to the MBWE and being able to access it as a network device via XP. WD docs state that an external USB device will only be displayed with MioNet and Access Anywhere active.

Not finding any beginner Linux tips on getting the external USB network side set up where I could view the external USB device in XP, I succumbed and installed MioNet. Following the installation instructions (WD/MioNet CD) the external USB device was visible as a network drive, and was able to copy folders files drag and drop to the MBWE without problem (if a bit slow!!!!).

Outside the scope of this forum, ran into problems attempting to xfer trp (MPEG Transport Stream) video files from my Satellite PVR onto my PC (XP O/s). I use an external (black case) 500GB USB MyBook (FAT32 required) as the target device for the PVR. The PVR does some weird naming conventions at times with the folders it sticks the TRP files into, and from within XP drag and drop doesn't always work. Then I thought that if I connected the USB drive external to the MBWE, I could copy them to the PC via the network. Accessing the files via MioNet connected to the MBWE I could see some of the folders names had been changed to another name. Must have something to do with XP and non-standard FAT32 size devices. Don't care, xfers work using that process, so I'm good there. The actual file names inside the folder remain intact.

While waiting for the transfers to finish, started to read about Twonky and thought that would be a much better use of the MBWE than just being able to down load video files. I followed the first example here to install Twonky, and got the server up and running, but wasn't able to access any of the directory where I had files stored, even though in the Twonky set up I could point to the folder and save the location. For a test I uploaded a video with Twonky to the server to see where it put the file. The file was uploaded to the root directory, even thought the set up was pointed to the shares folder created via the GUI interface for the MBWE.

After exiting Twonky (didn’t include the script to keep it running after closing PuTTY), I couldn't launch it again. I checked to see what directory I was in, tried changing to the location it's installed in, and got the error that I didn't have permissions to execute the file (not the exact wording).

Here is the meat of my dilemma. Installing MioNet wiped out the admin password created during the enabling SSH step. MioNet creates a new admin user and password. I can still access the MBWE via PuTTY and WinSCP with an alternate user account I created, but cannot access it with the new admin account created by MioNet.

Back to the beginning.

If I re-run the Hinner script to enable SSH access, and reset the password, is that going to hose me everywhere else? Will that allow me to log on as "admin" again, and will that get me set up where I have access to all the folders and files (or do I have access now and just don't realize it?)?

When I log in through SSH with the "user" account, can I still install software (that account has privileges set in the MBWE GUI for R/W access)? Do I have to be "su" or in "root" to install the software? I'm a bit lost here, it did work after the initial install as stated above, but it seemed confused as to where usable directories were. I tried chmod 755 on the Twonky app, but bash came back with I didn't have permissions for that.

Could someone point to, or include how to enable the external USB device as a network device visable to XP? I could completely forget about MioNet then :)

I'm getting the feel here, just need a nudge, or push off a cliff, as it were with Linux :)

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

Vinnie 1221152940|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi guys, thanks very much for the clear explanation of how to install TwonkyVision (especially Zerosignal for the installation and etsme for the autostart script). It works wonderful after some tweaking via the web-interface (like expanding the cache-size and setting the refresh timer to -1).

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

medorach 1222287151|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Just wanted to say thanks for the Twonky recommendation :) I'd been struggling with Ushare on MBW for days - I actually got to the point where it would serve video and photos to my 360 but, frustratinly, not music. Twonky is seriously slick though - the 360 brings up files faster than when using WMP11 or WMC! Very impressed.

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Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

wolfie_man 1224016763|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

looks like another new one:

wget http://www.twonkyvision.com/Download/4.4.9/twonkymedia-armel-uclibc-0.9.28-20081002.zip

Connecting to www.twonkyvision.com[63.241.31.171]:80
twonkymedia-armel-uc 100% |************************| 592 KB

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

wolfie_man 1224016970|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

upgrade seems to be as straight forward as all linux stuff….

/opt/bin/unzip twonkymedia-armel-uclibc-0.9.28-20081002.zip

select All from the options :
replace RevisionHistory? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: A

Then restart the server through the web interface …. bob be your uncle :-)

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

parisarc 1229996750|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

It seems that the address wget http://www.twonkyvision.com/Download/4.4.9/twonkymedia-armel-uclibc-0.9.28-20081002.zip is not anymore valid.

Any alternative of where can the software being downloaded ?

Thanks

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

Vinnie 1230023530|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

As far as I can see, TwonkyVision is no longer sold by TwonkyMedia. They have developed a new (and maybe improved) application, TwonkyMedia manager, with which you have the same functionalities as you would have had with TwonkyVision. So what you should do is buy and download TwonkyMedia and install that on your MBWE, because you will probably not be able anymore to buy a TwonkyVision license.

Or, if you already have a TwonkyVision license, I could see if I still have the software on my MBWE and upload it to some server.

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

parisarc 1230057009|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Yes I have. If u can put in some server it could be very helpful. Thanks a lot.

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

Vinnie 1230125196|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

You can download the file from:
http://www.2shared.com/file/4513280/6be252bf/twonkymedia-armel-uclibc-0928-20081002.html

Good luck with it!

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Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

samari 1231253954|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thank you soooooooooooooo much

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

MKo 1230641648|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi,
I have write a mail to TwonkyMedia and get this answer:

Hi,
**We are sorry, but we no longer support the NAS versions of the server that need to be installed by the end-user.
Please contact your device manufacturer to get firmware update.

Thanks
The TwonkyMedia Team**

It is realy posible? No new version for the TwonkyServer?
If you go on the webpage from TwonkyMedia then you can download the linux version for an x86 processor. But I think, the MBW has an ARM processor. Is this right?

Im very confused…

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

muss 1232149771|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi, I found this site great. It has helped me a lot and I appreciate everyones input….

OK I am on the last hurdle here but would like some help please. I managed to get the twonkyvision on my mbwe 500gb. The page is up and I can see files from within the web browser. When I try to view the files from my ps3, it fails miserably. It detects the media server which is good, however when i search for a movie or a song, it displays "there are no titles" I have searched all over the web and I cant find nothing related to this and MBWE. Has anyone found a fix for this??? thanks

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

Kulfadir 1232155680|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

New Version: http://www.twonkyforum.com/unsupported/4.4.11/

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

origin 1232851356|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I contacted TwonkyMedia to ask them about purchasing the 4.x key for my NAS drive. It looks like they're going to continue to support us, too!
To help clarify the confusion, here is their response:

Hi,

Regarding NAS devices:

TwonkyMedia server 4.4.11 will accept a 4.X and 5.X server license key as well
as a TwonkyMedia Manager license key. Version 4.4.11 of the server can be
downloaded from the following URL.

http://www.twonkyforum.com/unsupported/4.4.11/

Version 5.0 server license keys and Version 1.0 Manager keys can be purchased
from the online shop at the following URL.

https://buy.twonkymedia.com/BuyMediaServer.aspx

Thanks
The TwonkyMedia Team

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

RichKi 1234612920|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

This thread is fantastic and as a complete and utter linux and MBWE newbie, I've managed to get TwonkyMedia 4.4.11 up and running with auto start and auto stop implemented. Many many thanks for all your useful advice.

One problem remains though that I need help with. Despite having it all running on my MBWEII 1TB and visible from both my laptop (via web browser) and Xbox360, it isn't displaying any media.

I have two shares on the MyBook, Public and Richard. I have a number of folders and MP3 files in the Richard share but TwonkyMedia isn't seeing them.

Have I missed something?

Thanks

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

RichKi 1234619994|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Follow-up

Managed to resolve this - I noticed the following line in the log files:

LOG_SYSTEM:upnp_file_open_write file open write error "/usr/local/twonkymedia/twonkymedia.db/4.4.11"

I realised that I'd installed TwonkyMedia to "/usr/local/TwonkyVision" not "/usr/local/twonkymedia" which explains why the file couldn't be opened. I guess this meant that the system couldn't save the results of it's scanning, i.e. it was finding my media files, but couldn't record that it had.

I made some amendments to my installation (renamed the TwonkyVision folder to twonkymedia, changed the startup script and changed the init.d file) and now all is well.

Cheers

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

peta 1234998011|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi!
Installed the 4.4.11 Twonky on my NAS. Works! And i have never event touched Linux before. Thanks for all info at this forum.
One thing: How do I upload multiple files to the server? In the web interface I can only upload one at a time. There must be a better way?

Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

peta 1235000290|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Found the solution after some thinking. Added a network place in My Computer in Windows Vista. Works just fine.

TwonkyMedia 4.4.11 on WestenDigital MyBook WE 1TB NAS Device

AquaFire 1238220832|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Well,

Running Twonkyvision on my Western Digital MyBook World Edtion , 1 Terabyte NAS Device for one year now. Just upgraded to Twonkyvision for emedded NAS Linux ARM little endian uclibc 0.9.28 ver 4.4.11.

I have my PS3 connected via Wired 100Mbps LAN Swtich as DLNA renderer/player. There still are some minor glithces which are to be fixed by Twonky.

When streaming thru Twonky DLNA, ONLY AVI is the most compatible format for PS3. It is playable by every means. Support the scene search function to jump anywhere in the file (in case you left the movie in the middle and want to resume). Fast forward and rewind always work correctly. File information and running time is always shown. And if the file is copied to PS3 internal harddisk then it correctly supports the file specifications like Length,Codec,Bitrate,Resolution,Running Time and Location, some of these fields are not shown when file information is shown for a DLNA residing file.

However for all other types of files the PS3 can play, a lot of functions do not work correctly. Even if the file size is small 600~700MB or large 4GB ~ above . The file cannot be fast forwarded to all speeds. The file cannot be resumed for any point where you stop forwarding it. (It has to be stopped and replayed again to play from that point). The scene search function cannot find any scenes. Mainly because the file length is not shown correctly. It is always 99:99:99 . Thats why any time based seek functions cannot work. Not the mention if you are fond of switchable subtitles then they can only work with AVI files, which can incorporate DivX compliant XSUB subtitles. If any other file needs subtitles then they have to be 'burned' directly on the movies.

This happens for all other formats for PS3 namely VOB, MP4, MPG, WMV, TS, M2T(s).

I know a lot of this is not related to TwonkyMedia, and on PS3 firmware capabilities, but still a lot of things can be improved for various file type handling by it.

Just wanted to know that has anyone experimented with all these file types and can guide me. Does the latest beta of Twokyvision addresses some of them. As far as I have read it is more focused on having compatibility to play much new formats like FLAC and OGG, which to be honest i have never come across so much even in my reasonably huge media collection.

Regards,
AlterEgo.

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Re: Twonkymedia on Mybook - Possible Clue?

TandemUser 1248489900|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I have a Logitech Squeezebox Boom, and actually ran a server with Twonky. I got the WD NAS so I could loose the server, so will the Twonky steam to my Squeezebox? Are there any alternatives to the Squeezecenter software?