You know, it’s funny – I caught up with a couple of people from the Windows Home Server team yesterday morning at CES about various things including the fact that TwonkyMedia really needed to release their TwonkyMedia Server to all Windows Home Server owners. (Currently, the add-in is only available to HP and Fujitsu-Siemens SCALEO owners – everyone else has the complexity of using the standard Windows edition).
Not sure if the guys over at TwonkyMedia were eavesdropping, because this was just announced in their forums:
We have a special version of TwonkyMedia that runs as an Add-in on WHS. Currently it’s only available when you buy an HP MediaSmart server, but we’re hoping to offer this to all WHS users — as soon as it’s properly tested…. We understand that many of your have built your own Windows Home Servers and plan to sell a version designed for you guys as well. I don’t have an ETA yet, and won’t have one for at least a week because I’m at CES all this week.
Great news – looking forward to giving it a try-out.
11. January 2009 at 3:24 pm
This is good news. I used Twonky several years ago on my NSLU2.
11. January 2009 at 5:16 pm
I never used Twonky Media application how is it? Does it stream MKV or M2TS or is it more constrained in formats?
11. January 2009 at 5:31 pm
Actually, with a few tricks the current add-in can be installed and used on a custom home server. But I guess this will be much better and easier to do.
I can imagine lots of people will be happy with this news!
11. January 2009 at 6:41 pm
Twonky never worked on my PS3. I had to rename the AVI files to VOB files in order to view them on my PS3. Fortunatley recent PS3 firmware updates made it possible to view divX and XVid AVI files on my PS3 using Windows Media Connect supplied by Windows Home Server out of the box. So personally I don’t see the advantage of using Twonky over WMC unless the newer version streams mkv without having to rely on mkv2vob (a tool, that remuxes any mkv file to vob).
12. January 2009 at 8:39 am
When the plugin comes out I’ll definitly buy it again. Loved it on my old NSLU.
13. January 2009 at 8:17 pm
Huschke – For streaming from WHS to PS3 you should use this (http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/)
Works with AVI, MKV, ISO etc. I’m running it on a HPWHS (2Gb only change) and it runs great.
Tolax
13. March 2009 at 8:28 pm
A post on the twonky forum by the TMM Product Manager, Feb. 28, 2009, implied that HP will not let Twonky sell the addin to custom builders of WHS.