Enable remote media streaming (via web)

Hi,

I have seen this message on Twonky forums, about how to enable remote web streaming for the Twonky Server:  http://www.twonkyforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3707. I thought it might interest someone.

Just to be clear, web streaming is playing remotely the media on your MBL without downloading it. You will need a very good internet connection to be able to play videos without problems.

What I did was:

  1. In the router: forward the port 9100 to MBL

  2. Register a Host (dns address) to your external IP address (I used http://www.no-ip.com/, it’s free)

  3. Edit the file /usr/local/twonkymedia-5/twonkymedia-server-default.ini
    dyndns=http://<dns_address>/
    enableweb=2
    httpremoteport=9100
    accessuser=
    accesspwd=

----> Note, in my case it didn’t work immediately, so I added these lines to: /DataVolume/cache/twonkymedia/twonkymedia-server.ini . I am not sure if you need to add it to this one, the other one or both. Please if someone tries it, let me know which is the correct .ini to add them.

You will know the settings are added once you see them here: http://<dns_address>:9000/rpc/get_all or http://<dns_address>:9100/rpc/get_all

  1. Reboot MBL

  2. Access remotely to: http://<dns_address>:9100/

If everything works as expected, you will be asked for username and password, and then you’ll be able to play your media using your web browser. In my case it only worked with Internet Explorer, and the videos were played using Windows Media Player (and I was asked the password once again in WMP).

I hope this is helpful, feel free to ask and let me know if you managed to do it!

Very helpgul information, thanks for sharing it.