cpt_paranoia wrote:
i) Twonky supports transcoding (at least on QNAP devices)
Yes apparently, with some tweaking, transcoding is possible. Whether the processor on the WD My Cloud is capable of doing so effectively at run time is another story. In the “/usr/local/twonkymedia-7/resources” folder is a file called “transcoding.html” which explains how to setup transcoding on Twonky. From that file:
The new transcoding architecture is able to use nearly any external program for transcoding, rescaling or resampling. Examples of such external programs are: vlc, ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder, imagemagick and others. In principal each program which is able to transform file x to file y can be used.
It includes this graphic that explains how the transcoding is done:
