If I upgrade Twonky to 7.x (currently 5.1.9), will it start sharing my .mp4 videos?
I swear to god nothing is easy is it. I have a hundred home videos in .mp4 format and thought mybooklive would be a great way to host those for viewing from my other networked devices. Imagine my frustration when I looked for them from my WD TV Live and all it shows me is .wmv files - of which I have 10 or so. Come on WD seriously whiskey tango foxtrot.
Anyway, will paying $20 for the license and upgrading to twonky 7.x resolve this for me or just cause me 2 hours of pain and a waste of $20?
On my MBL Duo, I have installed twonky 7, and my H264 mp4 and m4v video files are perfectly handled. But maybe your codec is not supported by your media player.
So I cannot be 100% sure it would works for you. The best would be to open your files with MediaInfo to check if codec is supported
I addition, I would add:
twonky 7 installations takes only 10 minutes
you can test it fully (no limitations) during 1 month before you buy the licence
Thanks, yes they do show up in my web browser! So what does this tell me - that my client, the WD Live Plus box, won’t recognize them? I have the latest firmware in that box I am positive - upgraded it recently, and certainly it is supposed to play mp4, mkv, and everything else - the only thing that little box has going for it in the marketplace is its supposed ability to play almost any format… What else could be wrong?
Wow, okay, so I putty’d over to the box, stopped twonky, then restarted it, and now - viola, they are visible.
So what is broken such that Twonky didn’t find the new files and make them visible without me having to stop/start the service? The files have been there days at least.