Twonky on WDLive HUB

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Hi:

My network is more or less configured. I have made several folder shares in windows to view movies on wdlive.

The way I’ve done it is just shared the folders by right-clicking with Everyone on the network.

After that I’ve made an acount on my router and logged to it from wdlive to see the shares. Everything works no problems there. I don’t have twonky enabled as i don’t need it for this.

What I want to do is enable townky so that wdlive makes these 3 network shares accessible to another dlna compatible oppo digital 93 player (it doesn’t support accessing network shares). My plan was to enable twonky on hub and it works perfect, however i can only share the folders in twonky which belong either to wdlive internal hard drive or usb. I can’t choose the folders to share from the network which wd live already has access to.

Is there any way to make twonky on wd live access these network shares?

If i install twonky on my desktop i can do that with no problems but it eats a lot of ram!!! I need a dedictaed server for twonky on a separate device. WDLive  Hub seems perfect if I only could select network shares from its internal twonky server…

Any ideas/Solutions?

Thank You!

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Have you considered copying the media to the internal disk on the WD? It can do it automatically (P158 of the manual), though from a quick skim of the forum some people have had problems.

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No, you’ve figured out, you can’t configure Twonky to access network shares and then share that media.

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Thanks Tony.

Indeed, it’s quite a dissapointment and I guess I will need a NAS solution with latest Twonky installed to be able to do dlna over networks, but, man, whoever invented this dlna ■■■■ sure made himself rich at the expense of others.

Accessing shares by any network-capable media player should be no problem, instead, we have to go with this dlna stuff. It’s just too bad wdlive doesn’t support DTS-Master Audio pass-through via hdmi otherwise I wouldn’t bother with all this stuff.

Fingers crossed for new sigma designs 8910 chip players for Xmas- perhaps that would be the answer)