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Originally Posted by MikeL View Post
It's my understanding that Twonky is a media server that will install on Linux NAS and Linux x86 PC's in addition to Windows. (Unfortunately its not free you have to pay a small fee)
www.twonkyvision.de

I use Twonky occasionally via my XP PC as it serves my mp3 embedded Album Art to Media Streamer when playing audio tracks. I use Media Streamer to either play tracks directly on my Internet Tablet or control playback via my Philips Sl300i UPnP device connected to my Hi-Fi. (TVersity Release 0.9.10.7 is currently unable to serve the Album Art)

Either I have not optimized the settings or there is a tremendous amount of router overhead, the streaming of video over inet is not watchable. With TVersity, I am able to stream music over the web and has absolutely no difficulty, works very well. Video streaming is only limited to inside my own home network, over localhost: port. when streams over inet: port, it stutters so much, it is not watchable. I do not understand why there is so much big difference in streaming within my home network, compare to stream over internet, some built in security issue? A lot of posts saying streaming video successfully, I have severe doubt. Yup right, I stream video too, 1 frame per minute, ..., I have since give up streaming video. I think it either requiring tremendous amount of bandwidth or router tweaking thats way beyond a casual user.


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