DLNA devices include certain televisions, Blu-ray Disc® players and Blu-ray Disc Home Theater systems, HiFi component systems and computers. Check Applicable Products and Categories for details.īy setting up your computer as a Digital Living Network Alliance® (DLNA) server, you can stream media, such as music, photos or video, over your network to a DLNA®-supported device.
#Serviio install tv#
If you're connected directly to a TV, and it doesn't support DTS (few do), then use the Roku TV profile that matches your resolution and any audio that isn't Dolby Digital or AAC/PCM will be transcoded to DD.IMPORTANT: This article applies only to specific products and/or operating systems. Note that for Roku players I wrote the profiles assuming an AVR would be used, so DTS audio is passed through without transcoding. For a 1080 player, you should use the one with MPEG2 support, unless you have a Roku from the mid teens that doesn't support MPEG2 video. For 4K capable players chose the appropriate 4K profile. There are five additional profiles, two for Roku TVs and three for Roku players. You should instead use the console to change the profile the Roku uses to one with a batter match. For any Roku manufactured within the last 5 years, that profile isn't a good match. When you first attempt to use a Roku player with Serviio, it is assigned a generic Roku profile. You can't get it from the package repository that Synology uses.
#Serviio install install#
There is also a Serviio install package for Synology NAS devices on the Serviio download page. You need to change the user account the Serviio services runs under to a regular user with network rights to the NAS folders. However, by default Serviio runs as a system service, which doesn't have permission to use network resources. Yes, Serviio allows using a NAS as the media source. Also, the Serviio console won't allow me to use the NAS as the source files. Synology doesn't seem to have a package for Serviio, so I guess that's not really what I wanted to do. I installed it on a PC, and it works pretty well, but the videos usually don't have audio.
#Serviio install free#
For local streaming off your network, the free version has everything for the tip about Serviio. But for most users, the free version is all you need. Serviio is free, although there is a paid version that offers some expanded capabilities. I wrote the Roku profiles that are included in Serviio, so if there's an issue I might be the best to assist. Since you have a Synology NAS, I can tell you that Serviio has a version that you can install. If it's some off the wall codecs, it's possible the server/Plex simply doesn't recognize the file as a video. Then we can determine if the Roku can play them natively, or if transcoding is needed. You can download a program called MediaInfo, and it can tell you the contents of your media file. Especially a MKV container, which can hold almost anything. It doesn't matter what the file is named, it's simply a container, and that container can have a number of different audio and video codecs within (depending on the container). So, the first thing to examine is what is within the files that won't play.
But any files that the server (Plex or the DLNA server) and/or the player (in this case a Roku) decides are not playable, even with transcoding, then they aren't visible. But that doesn't explain the problem using Plex, as by default it will transcode as needed. That would be a setting within the DLNA server, so I couldn't tell you where to look. It sounds like transcoding is disabled on your NAS. I've gone through every setting in the NAS, including transcoding the video, but the problem remains. But what is the secret sauce that the MyBookLive had that the DS220 doesn't?
#Serviio install windows#
I can see the NAS with a Windows laptop and a Samsung tablet, and can play all the files with VLC, so the NAS and the network are working.
I installed the PLEX server on the NAS and the PLEX client on the Roku, but same problem. The Roku 4630X I had been using could find the NAS through Roku Media Player, but some files were not seen at all, and most would not play at all. It loaded up easily, and was quickly available online.
I got a Synology DS220+ with a pair of 4 TB Seagate Iron Wolf drives. Recently, the MyBookLive products have been the subject of an online shutdown/reset scheme that Western Digital won't fix. No major problems other than occasional audio codec incompatibility. I had been using a Western Digital MyBookLive online storage device for several years and used the Roku Media Player to access a wide variety of videos.
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