[Bug] Linking A-210 to Twonky Media Server on QNAP

[achtman]

Hi
I've just bought an A-210 because I expected the music output over coax to be of good quality and because it has UPNP. The music output is great and I've been playing up to 24 bit 192 KHz FLAC files. However, I want to control it as a DLNA renderer receiving FLAC files from Twonky Media Server on a QNAP419P+ as a DLNA server, and it simply doesn't work.

I have no problems connecting to the QNAP over Samba and can play music (FLAC) and videos (VOB) with no problems. I have installed llink as an alternative DLNA server on the QNAP and can play the same music from the QNAP without problems. However, although I can see the file structure and each individual in Twonky from the A-210, the A-210 refuses to play either the music files or the videos. I realize that I could install a media jukebox on the A-210 and play things that way. But I wanted to disconnect it from the TV, put it near the stereo and simply control it via my iPad. This works with a variety of other DLNA multimedia players like the WD HD Live but not with the A-210. The iPad can see the A-210 and the Twonky server with a variety of different apps but nothing gets played. This is true with both Twonky 5 and Twonky 6.0.3.

If any of you can help me getting music and videos streamed from the Twonky Media server to the A-210 I would be extremely grateful. This has now cost me two evenings and the whole day today and I'm no further ahead except to be sure that there is an incompatibility between the A-210 and the Twonky server. And looking at old posts, nobody seems to have reported a similar problem in a couple of years.

thanks
Mark

[letua210]

I've found this definition for a Popcorn C-200 in the clients.db file of another Media Server, perhaps adding this to the Twonky Media Server clients.db file on the QNAP will fix the problem?

Unfortunately, I understand that the clients.db file is re-created when the NAS is re-started, although I think the QNAP forums would worth a visit, anyway here is the entry:

>>
NA:Popcorn Hour C-200
HH:SMP8634, UPnP/1.0, DLNADOC/1.00 INTEL_NMPR/2.1
MT:aif,aiff audio/aiff
MT:avi,divx video/avi
MT:flac audio/flac
MT:flv video/x-flv
MT:lpcm,pcm audio/lpcm
MT:mp4 video/MP4V-ES
MT:m4a,mp4.a,3gp.a,m4b audio/mp4
MT:mp1,mp2 audio/mpeg
MT:ogg audio/x-ogg
MT:ts video/mpeg
MT:wav audio/wav
PX:1920
PY:1080
XM:ADDTITLETOURL
XM:DLNA10
XM:IGNORESORT
DB:AUTO