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2013-03-23, 14:31
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-23, 14:49 by patrickw59.)
Hello all,
I have heard recently of the XBMC project.
I use a 4-bay NAS from Synology, the model DS413, where all my TV series, movies, pictures and music is stored.
I would like to replace the poor built in DLNA mediaserver by a more powerful and good looking media server.
So my question is simple.
Can I install the XBMC software on a Synology NAS?
Thanks in advance for your feedback
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No, sorry - XBMC is a media suite that's designed to organise and play your media - the Synology boxes have no graphics card and no video out, amongst other limitations. The Synology will happily run a TV server if you wish, and also feed your media to a separate XBMC instance on a Linux, Windows, Android or iOS device - and from there, XBMC could act as a DLNA server to publish the media onwards.
You may want to look into something like Twonky, Subsonic or Plex server if you want to have something solely on your NAS.
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2013-03-23, 17:15
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-23, 17:52 by patrickw59.)
thanks for this most useful answer
(Update): PLEX cannot be installed on my model DS413
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Is a headless version of XBMC possible on the Synology NAS possible for use as a UPnP/DLNA server? Yes. Has anyone done it yet? No.
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Maybe but it would be player, not xbmc server.
Xbmc would first need to make architecture split. Then we could expect more client platforms being developed and, maybe, third party servers integration. I.e. Xbmc on htpc + synology server on nas or xbmc iOs remote playing from xbmc server on FreeNAS etc
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2013-04-11, 14:10
(This post was last modified: 2013-04-12, 06:50 by Robotica.)
(2013-03-25, 17:52)Starstream Wrote: Synology unlike other NAS makers like Asustor, Thecus and QNAP don't have Intel Atom based NAS with a HDMI video output (as far as I know). Thats why they all have builds of XBMC for their Atom NAS and Synology doesn't, though the current 2xxx Atom's they use are really not much use for video transcoding. They are also full blown versions of XBMC not headless.
The next generation Intel Atom chip CE5315 is designed to be cheaper than current Atom's and also features hardware based media transcoding, Synology will be releasing NAS based on these in the next 2-3 months. Thecus have already announced theirs the N2520 and N4520.
However nothing is known about this hardware video transcoder on the CE5300 so don't expect XBMC or any other software to be able to make use it. Most likely only the stock software provided on the NAS will get to use it initially. There's a chance Synology will be doing a build of XBMC on their Intel Atom CE5300 based NAS given all of their competition are doing it too.
All Synology's top models have some x86 versions with an Atom (D2700 / D510/D525) and even some i3 models. I don't no about HDMI. Last CEBIT they announced DS714: 2-bay Atom CE5315,
PowerVR SGX545 and HDMI.
Syno's are great for home-usages but for transcoding and streaming I still would suggest to build a more powerful x86 NAS yourself or wait on some more Syno announcements to come. If you go this road I would also suggest
XBMC headless (build a resource efficient GUI-less & very usable XBMC NAS version yourself to have a centrale managed library).
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(2013-07-02, 10:10)bennyboy Wrote: (2013-04-13, 04:49)chrisvdb Wrote: My QNAP TS-269L runs XBMC (officially, no hack required) perfectly... 1080P movies play without any stuttering. The only advantage is that the XBMC version will always be ~6 month behind the latest version.
QNAP
How can you say that when QNAP forums are full of complains about tearing?
http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=295&t=76989
http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=295&t=68148
http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=295&t=69146
http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?f=295&t=75405
I have a TS-269 pro, especially bought for xbmc support, and tearing is breakin the experience to the point that i bought a xios DS.
So stay away from qnap , at least until their intel driver issue is fixed (but i already have given up any hope on that point).
I saw no such tearing at their SCALE booth this year. There are so many factors that are involved here, assuming that everyone has the same issue is foolish.
