? Can you "manually" index a location once, or is this the type of thing that will always be running in the background? I may not exactly understand the indexing and how it would help in this situation. I have no problems adding folders to the WMP library, whether as shares, drive-mappings, symbolic links, twonky library, etc I am always able to add these files and folders from the QNAP NAS to the WMP library and play them back using WMP12 on my laptop. ISCSI just isn't ideal because of the other purposes and uses of my network share media.
WD TV BROWSER SOFTWARE
Thanks for the feedback, but I'm still hoping to make this work within the framework and software I already own (since it would seem it's supposed to work). I would be open to suggestions and other equipment options, particularly if someone has streaming from WINAMP to the their home entertainment center using media stored on their NAS. I need it to be able to stream to my non-network-compatible, but expensive, receiver. I bought strictly for its compatibility with Windows 7 and the "Play To" feature.
WD TV BROWSER PORTABLE
Sure I could buy a 2TB portable HDD and directly connect it to the laptop, but that's cumbersome, a waste of hardware and space, and a hassle - far from ideal. It's nice to have one central, backed-up NAS. It has the capacity and centralized location one would want for media files. album artwork) the way it is done in WMP where I can see every album in a few seconds with a quick mouse scroll. I would just like to quickly browse a large number of albums (i.e. I will never play the 525th album if forced to use those devices because it takes 2 days to scroll to it (and search is equally annoying). I have over 1000 personal CDs ripped to flac and stored on my NAS, and the DNLP devices are worthless only allowing you to scroll down by single items or by a "page" of maybe 6 items. tv) have horrible media browsing capabilities. no playback).īecause Twonky, the WD TV Live interface, and any other DLNP device I own (e.g. Actually, the symbolic linking removed the "Failed to retrieve." error and actually acted like it might play a file, but no media information is ever actually displayed and the playback just hangs at 0:00 (i.e. Yes, I've even disabled my anti-virus and firewalls which progressed the error from "Cannot connect." to "Failed to retrieve.", but it's still a no-go. I've tried nearly every form of shared folders, symbolic linking, drive-mapping, media-streaming options, permissions, etc. I CANNOT play files from the QNAP NAS through WMP and on to the WD TV Live. I CAN play/pull media files stored on the QNAP NAS to my laptop in WMP12 (and Winamp). I CAN play/push local media files stored on the laptop to the WD TV Live.
WD TV BROWSER PLUS
One would think that this would be among the most common set-ups desired, so I'm amazed that nothing is making it work.ġ) Windows 7 64-bit with Windows Media Player 12 as media browserĢ) Media files stored on and served from QNAP NASģ) Media playing (via WMP12 "Play To" feature) to WD TV Live Plus
I have done endless internet searching over the past few days, and attempted many different configurations from the various search results, but I'm left praying that somone here can help me set up media streaming on my home network the way I wish it would work.
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