Monday, April 18, 2011

TwonkyServer

TopTenREVIEWS - Bronze Award - Awarded for excellence in design, useability and feature set

TwonkyServer is an application of affordable, home media management software that can run on computers Windows, Mac and Linux. The software allows you to flow easily to and from your computer media, console games, television (via a network device), compatible smart phones and handheld devices and wifi compatible digital frames. However, the Windows version only TwonkyManager offers more options a few and leave the Mac and Linux users in the cold. Therefore, the somewhat limited TwonkyServer of the land in the third place on our list and WINS our toptenreviews Bronze Award.

Ease of use:

Once the home media management software has been installed and the server has rebooted, check the list of recipients of media to see if your compatible devices are appear and be read by the server. From there, make sure your multimedia content (videos, photos and music) via the web browser and ensure it will play back or displayed properly.

Even if your television is not Wi - Fi, built in, you can connect a Playstation 3 or XBOX 360, which may connect with the home media management app. alternately TwonkyServer, find a DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) - or UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) - to connect to a compatible device. These may include the Blu - ray players or DVD, video or still cameras, mobile or Pocket PC devices, game consoles and more. Visit their respective Web sites and forums for more info on DLNA and UPnP.

Digital frames for photos come from Wi-Fi-enabled, so you can even more images to display in the stream. If the mobile phone you or handheld is compatible, content can be streamed to it.

What is also great on this home media management software, it is that you must be in the flow of your content of digital media from the computer. Compatible devices using their own user interface and menu system to navigate, and you can read these videos, music and photos.

Video and sound quality:

However, if the device itself supports a specific image or video, audio format, that is that there may be a problem of reading. Check if your device can support different content, that you will be streaming it via TwonkyServer.

Purchase or rent content: plays digital media content:

To reiterate an important note, if the device you are streaming to supports a specific format properly (as a 720 p or SD TV connected via a console game), you will get all the benefits of this format. You can always watch 1080p content on an SD TV, but it will not be glorious high definition.

If the device loads a format, such as an audio protected or a video file, it will play back on the device. Recheck the manual compatible device, or online, to see what formats video, audio and image are supported. Older devices may have problems with some of the more recent formats coming out, especially when it comes to video, which is still in evolution that most HD codecs are created.

Internet content:

You need to do is share the Office of the master computer, for example, if you browse the web and check out YouTube, Pandora, Vimeo, Flickr, etc. on your computer, you can share with your devices. Base configuration, you choose the menu sharing, that will stream what you watch or listen to with your devices.

Help & Support: Summary:

View the original article here

No comments:

Post a Comment