Unable to play media via DLNA

[Sgt. Evans]

Hello everyone.

I try to enable multimedia stream via Qmultimedia to my Android phone in LAN.

I did the following:
1. Enabled UPnP
2. Enabled Multimedia station
3. Enabled Music station
4. Copied media files (MP3, MP4, AVI, ) to Qmultimedia folder (/share/MD0_DATA/Qmultimedia, if connecting via WinSCP)

I can play all added files in Multimedia station web interface, but neither my phone (I use UPnPlay app), nor Music station see them.
Android app only finds TwonkyMedia server and "Samples" folder with some pictures in it.

I use TS-210 F/W 3.7.1 Build 20120615

Screenshot of Music station:

[schumaku]

Multimedia Station and Music Station are ** of the DLNA/UPnP AV server (Twonky).

Check the Twonky /DLNA configuration:

http://[NAS]:9000/config

Basic Setup - Sharing:
Content Locations - is /Qmultimedia there?
Rescan in minutes: - what is sset here? Should be either a positive value (minutes, or -1 for automatic detection), if there is a 0 media will not be indexed automatically.

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Similar, AFAIK MultimediaStation/Music Station/... does need na indexing, too. strange you cna see it isns MSV2, but not in Music Station - what is strange. No idea this minute, somewhat short in spare time ....

[Sgt. Evans]

After entering http://[NAS IP]:9000/config or http://[NAS IP]:9000 I receive "Service not available" message, like on pic below:

[pwilson]

After entering http://[NAS IP]:9000/config or http://[NAS IP]:9000 I receive "Service not available" message, like on pic below:

Sounds like you didn't enable the UPNP Media Server first.


Check out: http://docs.qnap.com/nas/en/index.html?upnp_media_server.htm

Patrick

[schumaku]

After entering http://[NAS IP]:9000/config or http://[NAS IP]:9000 I receive "Service not available" message, like on pic below:

Strange - at least the "T" favicon.ico is there. Same after a reboot?

[Sgt. Evans]

Oh, I forgot to check "After enabling this service, click the following link to enter UPnP Media Server configuration page" box. After doing it I have accessed config page. There I changed "Qmultimedia" content location. (Quite unobvious, I must say: Qmultimedia location was somehow different from what WinSCP shows me. May be that's because Twonky doesn't distinguish folders from shortcuts, I'm not sure).
And now it works fine, thank you very much for your advices.

[schumaku]

Quite unobvious, I must say: Qmultimedia location was somehow different from what WinSCP shows me. May be that's because Twonky doesn't distinguish folders from shortcuts, I'm not sure).

Hm... well, Twonky is preconfigured correct, so why change ? Further on, Twonky has a [Browse] option - from where we can see, what is available Of course: For less-integrated packets, you might have ot reference the effective Linux-root file path.

The point is that all shared folders managed for user access are repreented as symlinks in /shares/[sharename] - effectivley pointing to /share/[volume]/[shareredfolder] - so for the outside view - in Windows, In AFP, in FTP, in NFS, and also for Twonky, the "shared" root is located there, all references on the NAS are always sharename centric.

The difference is not caused by WinZIP, but by using sftp protocol - which is not from the ftp family, much more it's an ssh shell access - where you have access to the NAS Linux root. And the shared root for the shared foflders is not nessecarely the same like the Linux root.