snappy46
02-17-2010, 02:03 PM
For those Linux user there is a working alternate to Tversity for those wishing to stream YouTube video, internet radio, and shoutcast; it's called twonky mediaserver. I installed it on my system and it is working fine on Ubuntu 9.10 which a debian based linux distribution.
A few drawback to this program is that it does not have a free version like Tversity but you will be able to use it for a trial period of 30 days then you can decide if it's worth your money. Also the it has a web based interface that is somehow limited. There is a twonky media manager which I am guessing will provide an interface similar to Tversity but it's only available for windows at this time; I did not try to see if it would work using Wine.
There are two files that can be downloaded a Zip manual install and a script that automatically do the install for you (You only need one of them). There is also an install adobe document that help with the installation. Note that if you use the script to do the install and do not edit the script you will have to install it as root or sudo the script command. I first tried the manual install as normal user but was not succesful; the PBO would see the server but no files were available. I then did the install using the automatic script and everything worked great.
The link below will get you there.
http://www.twonkymedia.com/installs.html
Apparently Twonky comes with a bunch of rss feed already enable since I had access to music, photo and video (I means like lots and lots of them) right away without any configuring on my part. It has the common YouTube folders: most watched, favorites etc..., shoutcast and a bunch of albums and artist music. I am not sure what all the RSS Feeds are at this point since I did not have much time to look into it last night I was too busy looking at the amount of stuff available to me.
Also looking at Twonky's web interface I was not able to enable transcoding which which is grayed out. I find that pretty strange since I was able to view You Tube videos which usually are in .flv format which I don't think the PBO supports but I could be wrong on that. Did not look into it too much so far I was just happy that it was working.
To finish I still have a lot of question about how this program does its things; all I know is that it works. I was also surprise by the quality of some of the video's from You Tube considering that I was viewing them on a 47" wide screen LCD TV. Some videos look better than some of the non-hdtv channel that I receive at home. I enjoy my PBO quite a bit and despite some of the problems disscuss in many post on this forum; I think that for the price this is a pretty amazing little box; sometimes its just too easy to see all the little things that doesn't work quite as advertize and to forget all the things that this box does well.
Enjoy
A few drawback to this program is that it does not have a free version like Tversity but you will be able to use it for a trial period of 30 days then you can decide if it's worth your money. Also the it has a web based interface that is somehow limited. There is a twonky media manager which I am guessing will provide an interface similar to Tversity but it's only available for windows at this time; I did not try to see if it would work using Wine.
There are two files that can be downloaded a Zip manual install and a script that automatically do the install for you (You only need one of them). There is also an install adobe document that help with the installation. Note that if you use the script to do the install and do not edit the script you will have to install it as root or sudo the script command. I first tried the manual install as normal user but was not succesful; the PBO would see the server but no files were available. I then did the install using the automatic script and everything worked great.
The link below will get you there.
http://www.twonkymedia.com/installs.html
Apparently Twonky comes with a bunch of rss feed already enable since I had access to music, photo and video (I means like lots and lots of them) right away without any configuring on my part. It has the common YouTube folders: most watched, favorites etc..., shoutcast and a bunch of albums and artist music. I am not sure what all the RSS Feeds are at this point since I did not have much time to look into it last night I was too busy looking at the amount of stuff available to me.
Also looking at Twonky's web interface I was not able to enable transcoding which which is grayed out. I find that pretty strange since I was able to view You Tube videos which usually are in .flv format which I don't think the PBO supports but I could be wrong on that. Did not look into it too much so far I was just happy that it was working.
To finish I still have a lot of question about how this program does its things; all I know is that it works. I was also surprise by the quality of some of the video's from You Tube considering that I was viewing them on a 47" wide screen LCD TV. Some videos look better than some of the non-hdtv channel that I receive at home. I enjoy my PBO quite a bit and despite some of the problems disscuss in many post on this forum; I think that for the price this is a pretty amazing little box; sometimes its just too easy to see all the little things that doesn't work quite as advertize and to forget all the things that this box does well.
Enjoy