![]() The other software server I was impressed with was Fuppes, it's very rough round the edges and you have to enable PS3/X360 support through editing the config file but it worked a charm and never caused me any problems. The Xbox 360 though has no such access delay and having looked over some stuff on WMP in MSDN it seems Sony would have to add support for WMP11 in order to make better use of it (the PS3 shows as an unknown device so there is very basic support for the WMP media server as it is) WMP also generates static thumbnails for some video media which slows down the access time or listing of the media in the folder. Never had any problems with directory support with WMP either though it is slower initially on the first access, it seems to cache the listings after that though and then you can fly through the menus. Plus WMP is modular so it is very easy to add support for custom formats if you know how I was streaming M2TS, MP4, M4V, M4A, AVI, WMV, MPG all from WMP to the PS3. I've also used WMP11 in the past and it has rarely ever given me any trouble (there were one or two rare moments with the PS3 but with Xbox it was rock solid) and I found it personally to be more reliable than TVersity which seemed to have a mind of it's own as to when it would work. It also has no problems with folders or videos that have - or ' in them as I have a few of those and they all show up & play just fine on the PS3. M2TS missing on PS3 and M4V missing on X360 though you can rename M4V to MP4 and it will work, I'm going to bug the Synology guys to hopefully add support for those. It supports almost all the formats the PS3/X360 do as well. I have a Synology DS-207+ and it supports the PS3 and Xbox 360 and there are no problems at all with directory structure, access times etc. Joker454 it sounds to me like the UPnP/DLNA server on the dlink dns-323 is at fault. If you do have a raid box that runs very fast and doesn't have the above issues, I'd be interested in knowing which one you're using! I get the feeling that most of the issues I'm seeing are due to the dlink raid box being underpowered. In particular, it would be interesting to hear from people using raid boxes as their server, and those using a dedicated pc as the server. ![]() I'm curious if other people using the ps3 to access a upnp media server are experiencing some of the same issues. Maybe it's the upnp server on the raid box thats at fault? ![]() I can't imagine it being the raid units fault since pc access to it is very fast, and this is from a pc on the same switch as the ps3. Also, I get lots of stuttering playing back wmv's as small as 50mb. For example, thumbnails for photos is basically worthless since you'll grow old waiting for them to appear. Again, is this normal? It seems very limiting as I don't want to flatten our entire media directory structure!ģ) Access is very sloooooooooow. In other words, it seems like I can only go a few directories deep, and thats it, it just won't go anymore beyond a certain point. ![]() I've tracked this down most likey due to how deeply they are nested. Is limited character set support a general issue with dlna?Ģ) There are certain directories I just can't go into. Renaming that directory to "80s" fixed that error. So when I had a directory called "80's", I would get protocol errors when accessing it. I tracked this down to any directory names having an apostrophe in it. Some of the issues are:ġ) I occasionally get "protocol errors" when accessing certain directories. I'm having some issues with the PS3 talking to it and I'm wondering if it's an issue with the PS3, or with the dlink's upnp support being weak. The dlink unit is connected via cable to a gigabit router, and the ps3 is connected via cable to a gigabit switch which is then connected to the router. I'm using a dlink dns-323 as the upnp media server. I decided to goof around with the PS3's dlna support since a new firmware for my raid box seems to support it. ![]()
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