Compatible UPnP DMA (Digital Media Adaptor)

[XIONG]

Adopted by the SMB and passwordless Guest users?I must agree,
thanks!!!!!!

[KrestenBager]

Hey all,

I've tried the Archos TV+ with limited sucess.
Somehow the TV+ is not 100% compatible with upnp - only the Windows Media Player upnp variant?!?
The Archos TV+ easily crashes when browsing content on the DS 207 upnp server.
You can watch film and hear music but with limited functinality (no fast forward & rewind).
When browsing photos you cannot zoom.
Besides these points it seems to work.

I use the DS 207 - DSM 2.0-0640
And Archos TV+ 2.1.04

Best regards
Kresten Bager

[davide80]

i am interested to buy a Linksys DMA with DVD player, like KISS 1600 or the new DMA 2200.
have someone tested ones of these products? Is upnp avaiable on both of products?
i have a DS207+ and i want discover DS shared folder trought the DMA.. but without a pc!

.. or can anybody suggest me another product?

Thanks

[DS508_customer]

... have someone tested ones of these products? Is upnp avaiable on both of products? ... can anybody suggest me another product?

Not really an answer you requested, but still: Nowadays, more and more Digital Media Players support DLNA. Currently, Synology does not support DLNA as explained in this topic.

[nop]

I'm using a DS207+ (Fw 0728) with a Freecom MusicPal (http://www.freecom.de/ecProduct_detail.asp?ID=3593), current firmware 1.51.

While the built-in Synology uPnP works reliable but quite slow with the MusicPal and ~30GB mp3 music, Twonky is very fast and comfortable. Works like a charm.

[vtmarvin]

DMA: Philips 37PFL9603D
Firmware: 000.091.000.000

Syno:
DS-106
firmware: DSM 2.0-0722
(same bahaviour when updated to DSM 2.0-0728)

DS-508
firmware: DSM 2.0-0728

Plays MPEG1, MPEG2 and some MP3s (probably depending on bitrate).
Does not see filenames in directories, it just shows icons in front of files it probably can play.
Detects just one Synology on my network (right now it is my DS-106) - both are on same subnet.
Sometimes it does not detect any Synology - probably when Syno has hibernated discs.

[vtm]

[Hmm28]

Hej VT.

I have the excact same TV.

The Philips Streamer option only allows the formats you mentioned yourself (No DivX, Xvid etc.).
It has nothing to do with the Synology-box - but the software on your TV. Try googling it - and you'll see.

Althoug I haven't tried a firmware update since i bought it back in October. Give it a try... But don't be surprised if it doesn't do the trick.
As for you only beeing able to see one of your Synology drives - you might want to try to tweak the IP-adresses to fixed (if using assigned ones). I only use a single Synology server - and I connect it trough my PS3, which works absolutely flawlessly.

If you're willing to pay a premium of some hundred euro's for the "stream-capability" of the 9603 you're right to feel a bit screwed
The only solution is to use a videoconverter to get the movies in the mentioned formats - for now.
Either wait untill Philips upgrades the firmware to DivX-compatibilty or get a PS3 (or any other HW DLNA-compatible media player for that matter).

[vtmarvin]

To: Hmm28

Thank you for a reply.
I know about very small set of supported formats (unfortunately). For now I am converting my favorite movies to MPEG-II - with subtitles converted to video. It works well and even display performance is good.

About that PS3 - working on it )) it needs some time to convince my wife
Year ago I was looking for D-link DMA player at our stores (no success) but PS3 looks like much better choice ATM - I am only not sure about that optical audio out it has is a good idea.

One more thing about videos. Not sure whether it is a Syno feature or Phillips problem I do not see any meta information at Phillips file listing. Not even filename - filename shows after a while in right part of screen with filename, but long listing with all media files is empty - just icons.
Is there some way how to tell Syno UPnP software that this video has some meta information? Some INFO file or anything. I did not find any information about some standard for information tags in MPEG-2 files.

Updated:
Now I see both synology servers.
As DS-508 has two network interfaces, UPnP surprisingly binds only to second one (or in my case - maybe it changes after every reboot, not sure).
At this moment my DS-508 interfaces are connected to different networks and my DMAs are in network connected to Interface 2. So I had to switch cables and IPs and works for now. I see both Syno servers in Phillips source selection menu.

[leon2008]

No GO on my EX-1011 digital frame from Kodak. The frame sees the my DS207 (and DS207+) but it cannot log into them. After pressing on the DS in the EX1011 UI nothing happens. Read several places that they do not work, but thought this place might push the developers to do something about it

[vtmarvin]

DMA:
PS3 - fw 2.53 (seems to behave the same on 2.60)

Syno:
DS-106 - fw: DSM 2.0-0728
DS-508 - fw: DSM 2.0-0728

browsing for videos / music / photos works fine
MP3 playback works fine
photo gallery browsing works fine
video playback quality is not excelent (compared to same videos on Phillips DMA) - some formats are not supported. Unfortunately there seems to be no support for srt/sub subtitles.

It is bit confusing that in each submenu photo/music/video PS3 shows whole media tree video-music-photo and allows you to browse to the leaves, but then shows you no content other than apropriate for the menu youre in. Eg. in music menu you can browse video folders but you see no videos in there. It seemed like - it is not working! - for me for the first time ... and some other times

PS3 cannot find my DS-508 on network when searching for media servers. It shows in connected media servers list time to time but I found no rule when. It has no problem to detect DS-106.
DS-508 is connected to same network as PS3 with LAN2 interface. LAN1 interface connects to different subnet. This is the only difference.
My other DMAs (Phillips 37PFL9603D and 42PFL9603D) have no problem to detect DS-508 on network.

[mic-dk]

DMA: Onkyo TX-NR905, Main Version 9 1.08/08223A
Syno: DS-209+, firmware DSM 2.1-0832

Plays music like it was made for it. Had to increase the buffersize to >64Kb for it to play all tracks. Otherwise it would skip some.

[isiden]

Netgear EVA2000 works pretty good (with EVAW111 too), even if it is a very cheap and crappy media adapter..

[jekyll]

Sony BDP-S370 blueray player.
DS410

Works like a dream, 2 weeks with no problems.
Cheap & cheerful for a DLNA adaptor... nice GUI (looks like PS3)

Would state the 470 & 570 which are both DLNA should work with synology units.

[mfhtscb]

I have a Bravia set. The Bravia streams MP3 and JPG from the USB station 2 fine but it cannot stream WMA or video files. I can stream these files to Windows Vista and 7 computers from the USB Station 2. Is this a problem with Synology's DLNA or with the Bravia's?

[jekyll]

I have a Bravia set. The Bravia streams MP3 and JPG from the USB station 2 fine but it cannot stream WMA or video files. I can stream these files to Windows Vista and 7 computers from the USB Station 2. Is this a problem with Synology's DLNA or with the Bravia's?

Greetings mfhtscb,

I can confirm wma is not found under usb station 2.
I stream to a sony bluray player (DLNA & Bravia) the unit does not see the files.

Have not tried other files / codecs as i use a DS410 to manage my content.


Hope this helps

Phill Bucko