Watching movie off MyCloud2TB on Roku using Roksbox, Help please

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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running a WD MyCloud 2TB drive for a while and using chaneru to great success to watch ripped movies on the TV via roku. But that channel was starting to have problems loading the file and it has a hard to navigate interface. So I went looking and found roksbox.

Problem seems to be that I cannot find how to access the video files on my drive via the roksbox.

On the chaneru I navigated each time “wdmycloud > videos > by folder > james > movies” I had to click through every time.

Trying the setup for roksbox it needs the ip address and the folder location, I entered in my web browser a ip of http ://192.168.1.11:9000 which will bring me to the twonky server page for the MC. From there I can select videos and then movies to get me to: http ://192.168.1.11:9000/webbrowse#video, which does not work as a valid address for roxksbox.

Tried
192.168.1.11:9000/videos/by folder/james/movies
:9000/videos
:9000/james
:9000/james/movies

Nothing ever seems to get the files to show. I found one other guy who had same issues that seemed to post and run back in December. Someone said to use twonkey. The only twonkey options I can find using the roku is to use my ipad as a remote control to beam the movie. I just want a user interface to pull up movies on the roku without needing extra equipment.

Thanks

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Can roksbox play videos on your local hard drive?  If so, mount your MyCloud as a network drive adn see if you can stream from there. Windows Media Center had no problem finding and playing video across a network mount.

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I have not tried that, but it brings me to needing to have the computer on 24/7 to serve up the videos. Something I am not opposed to since I have it running a 4 camera security setup.

After hitting the brick wall with roksbox I tried Plex. As above, I wanted to remove the computer from the equation. Something I was able to do with chaneru. Absent hearing back on the roksbox developers on their roku forum help area, I think I will stick with Plex and leave the PC running.

Thanks

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You could also use Serviio, which I think has much faster and better transcoding than Plex, by using the steps I outline in this thread - http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud/WD-My-Cloud-3TB-amp-server-DLNA-Twonky-Media/td-p/713418

My reply is the third one.