Can I stream movies stored on my nas to this thing, beyond XMBC? Can I use apps like bubbleupnp if it does? Thanks
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I used to have this device and it's very good for the price, I played 1080p movies without issues, netflix and such. I have also used VLC to play video and music files from a shared drive on a PC, I understand it's not the same as streaming movies from a NAS, however I do think VLC has that capability, so I don't see why it would not work.
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I've done it, but it's not pretty. The streams go over your network uncompressed. So we're talking 15-20 megabits, depending on what bitrates your cable company uses. If you have that much upstream to work with, then it should be fine. I don't and I've been meaning to enable OpenVPN's compression to see if that works, but I have yet to try it.
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I am using Plex on it for 2 months now. Transcoding is not super fast, my old HTPC with AMD Hudson M1 is 3 times faster to transcode! When there is no transcoding it is very nice, I used to have my XBMC library shared on mysql on it and it was the same no lag on 100Mbps network. I switched to 1Gbps and I am only watching 1080p movies, some in 3D and from my HTPC running XBMC with the plex addon I have no issues at all. From my new Nexus 7 it is the same, it just takes time when I cast to my chromecast but I am not sure what is the issue, it takes 30s to load and then it is ok! Now the question is to know if you hesitate between a NAS or building your own NAS with a powerful CPU for transcoding! I believe in the NAS world this one is one of the fastest in its category for transcoding (but I might be wrong). Anyway it is a very good product I do not regret the money I spent on it! I also use Plex on my Samsung smart TV and it runs very well. FYI on my NAS I have sickbeard installed that download my series using Transmission and then move them to the proper folder, rename the file and Plex sees it and update its database! everything works fine!
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I haven't used it that way. I was just interested in getting a really big disk drive. But it does come with server software, which is initially disabled. In theory you can stream media to DLNA or iTunes enabled devices. I just checked the manuals and found very little clear info. I can't say for sure what formats the server supports.
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Hmm, why would you use ftp? This is a streaming device, just to send SD video over IP. Nothing else...
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Can you plug an HD Antenna into the back with a USB dongle & watch local over-the-air channels? - I have not tried it, but I don't believe so. Can it see/browse video files on a network NAS? - Yes. It was able to see my SaMBa share without any problems and play the videos there.
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I have the cube V2 and use Plex media server on a server I have in my house. I installed the plex client for android and have no issues watching movies across the network. Not to mention I can watch movies on plex from any where on the internet. Have fun.
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I have mine connected via network and also attached to that network is my NAS and it works great. From reading the manual you can also connect the NAS straight to the media player via USB, Ethernet, or SATA and all should work. As for the BD3D ISO it should play with no issues depending on how your media is being fed to the box. If over network your network has to be strong (Wi-Fi may not cut it).
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Yes it will play movies from a external hdd and wifi i do not know. With XBMC you have alot of tv shows and movies. Great box to have...
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I use the built-in media server to serve videos to my PS3 and iPhone/iPod, so I assume you wouldn't have problems with Android either. Note that I convert all of my iOS QuickTime videos to MP4 with QuickTime Pro. I also stream videos shot with my Samsung handheld, which encodes directly in MP4. This is all more to deal with limitations of the PS3 than the NAS itself. I also have some bandwidth issues on my wi-fi that make streaming HD encoded above about 10Mb/s a little choppy, but I don't believe those to be a limitation of the NAS, because the CPU monitor shows very little overhead and it has plenty of IO capacity. I also use the NAS as a photo library for the PS3 with no problem. Synology provides an iOS app that you can use for photo browsing, as well as a means for configuring it to be accessible even outside of your LAN.
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Yes you can. It is supposedly specifically designed for the rigors of NAS storage though, in that it is designed to be run continuously. It is probably not necessary to pay the premium for this drive to use in HTPC setup. If the price is not really a concern, I would go with a faster drive, such as the WD Black range or the WD Velociraptor.
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I contacted Sony customer support, here is the question and response: Model : bdp-s570 Question: When will you offer firmware that will allow more video file formats mkv, m4v, mp4, m2ts, etc... to be streamed over the network connection from a DLNA media server? At this point it plays very few file types. one of the main reasons I purchased this product was to stream video over my network. Thank You Response: Thank you for contacting Sony Support. I'm sorry, but there is no update available to support the additional file formats via DLNA. I've provided a link with the information on the file types that are supported when using the DLNA feature: http://www.kb.sony.com/selfservice/documentLink.do?externalId=C1017936 Thank you for your time. The Sony Email Response Team
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I stream from a SMB server on my network just fine. It's a USB HDD enclosure on the router, the router supplies the SMB server itself, it should work well for you.
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what about netflix, etc? they all still work? can you hook an hdd up to use as dvr storage since the cloud no longer functions?
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See my review for my opinion on it in more detail. But yes this is it. I'm extremely pleased with mine, which I use for streaming movies all over the house simultaneously to multiple devices. It plays HD movies over wifi without any problems what so ever. 13.8gb huge movie files, no problem, it'll stream them to multiple devices without skipping a beat. 1080p, DTS sound. Etc. Yes, this is it. I had no idea it was discontinued. It was my first NAS and I had no trouble downloading DSM OS, the pat file, and the synology assistant. It was easy.
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Yes it can bitstream all HD audio formats over HDMI to a receiver (This was the main reason I bought it). I stream all my content from a NAS including BD rips and mkvs so there is no issue there.
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I do exactly this with a Synology NAS. There are a few caveats with the library but I can watch or listen to my library on 2 Apple TVs and audio with some Airport Expresses. Should work the same with this.