NAS woes

[roger06]

Hi

I recently bought a Western Digital 1TB NAS with which I have two issues.

1. It fails to show up as it should in the 'shared' section of my Mac's Finder much of the time so I can't access it, or if I can see it it fails to connect.

2. I can stream photos to my Sony BDPS370 Blu Ray player but when trying to do the same with movies I've tried .AVI, .MKV, .MOV and .MP4 files - none of which work. So what format will?

Thanks

 

[Anonymous]

Look at page 29 of ur sony user manual.

Next to some of the formats there is a little '5' which if u look in the key means the 370 wont play these formats over dlna.

That means u are left with mpeg-2, and divx (divx will need to activated from the 370's menu).

I assume as it supports mpeg2 - it will play .vobs as well if u rename them to .mpg or .mpeg, though u'd have to try this.

 

[roger06]

Thanks

Any idea how I can encode divx on Mac? MPEG StreamClip states it does it but I can't find any reference to it in the app!

 

[Anonymous]

Well the easiest way I know is to install divx on your mac. The 15 day trial will let u see if the converter works.

http://www.divx.com/en/software/mac

The pro version costs £13.99

(I'm not a mac person so there might be an easier way)

 

[roger06]

Thanks! It's churning away on my vids right now!

That does seem like the easiest way - maybe not the cheapest but certainly the easiest!

 

[roger06]

Yay success! I can now watch video I shot of my two year old back in the summer on the telly! Strangely the video seem to stream far better than photos...

Thanks again!

 

[Dan.m]

Roger. How are you getting on with your WD 1TB NAS. I am thinking of getting one from curry's for £99 or 2TB for £140. May even consider the my book 2 (2TB) for £179 that can be set up to raid as back up. Any advice/experiences welcomed

 

[roger06]

Dan.m:Roger. How are you getting on with your WD 1TB NAS. I am thinking of getting one from curry's for £99 or 2TB for £140. May even consider the my book 2 (2TB) for £179 that can be set up to raid as back up. Any advice/experiences welcomed

Hi Dan

Well the jury's been out for a while but I think I can now safely give it the thumbs up and suggest you buy one.

My biggest frustration was that it kept disappearing - however, it now seems quite reliable. I think what I like best the ability to plug in another external USB hard drive. This is great as you can back it up and if you're really diligent store it away from your home etc. So I guess you could consider the1TB model and get a 1TB USB drive.

I guess it's up to you and how much storage you need as to which one you get. I'm beginning to think the 2TB would have been better for me.

I've found transfer speeds to be fine. OK, if I've got a lot to transfer over I'll plug in rather than use wireless. The back up software seems OK - but I'm having slight problems getting it to back up my iPhoto library which I manually copied onto it, but then I back it up it wants to effectively copy it all again, into the iPhoto library... but I'm sure I'll get that sorted.

I could probably rumble on for ages but I don't regret buying it. I think I still have a lot of learning to do but I can possibly see me adding another in future. I'm lucky enough to have a wired network in most of the house and this certainly helps.

It does seem to show up reliably now and I do love the way I can easily back up data - a great example is importing photos of my new born girl onto my PowerBook - then I just drag 'em across to the NAS and leave it to back up.

My Sony DB player now happily streams photos and vids - doesn't like music though but I've saved in lossless and I think it wants MP3...

Good luck - and please let me know if you get one as we can probably learn from each other.

I also think there's a new model - a My Book Live not sure what the difference is, maybe a faster processor.