Try using playon for your server and kalemsoft on the touchpad. Playon has transcoded pretty much everything I've thrown at it, HD mkv included.
isn't playon a monthly fee? Serviio and twonky are free. If its free then game on.Snow02 said:Try using playon for your server and kalemsoft on the touchpad. Playon has transcoded pretty much everything I've thrown at it, HD mkv included.
I'll look into it thanks. I think I looked into it while ago and besides the pay part it didn't have a mac OSX client.Snow02 said:It's free to serve your own media (you just have to install vlc as well and tell it where the installation directory is). The subscription is for the connected services like espn, hulu, Netflix, etc. It works for any dlna player.
My playback is flawless. I looked for different solutions yesterday and this was the only one I got working. Luckily it works well.Bboy486 said:playing through parallels was to slow and it had trouble finding my NAS drive. Anything else you recommend?
Yeah, a virtualized environment is definitely not well suited to this. If you use bootcamp to properly load windows, I imagine it would work fine.its parallels. Its slow on my mac mini