This morning I posted about installing the new HP MediaSmart 3.0 Patch 2 software update. No sooner had I posted that than my old buddy Diehard contacted me to tell me about some problems with the update.
Diehard has been working closely with Alex Kuretz over at the MediaSmartServer.net site and this is what Alex has posted:
Since performing the initial install I’ve spent some more time with my EX495 running the update and have encountered a couple of issues.
The first was a problem where I experienced the high CPU utilization caused by Twonky. I eventually narrowed this down to a single video file in my library and have worked around the problem, however this is very frustrating since I did not experience this issue prior to installing Patch 2, and the updated 5.1.1 version of Twonky was specifically supposed to contain the resolution for this issue.
The second problem had to do with the Remote Media Streaming feature. I experienced very poor performance while using the Music streaming feature, with the system exhibiting the following symptoms.
- Songs would take tens of seconds or longer to begin playing
- When a song completed, playback would not continue to the next track in the album
- Terrible, low resolution sound quality for some songs
Alex details the steps you can take to fix the issue – so well done Alex and thank you Diehard!
To read the full post and to see the steps, click here: http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2010/03/04/how-to-fix-twonky-issues-in-3-0-patch-2/
I’m off to fix mine now before I start hitting the issue!
If you are not a HP MediaSmart server owner, Twonky Media for WHS is available http://www.twonkymedia.com/downloads/TwonkyMediaS…
Even with the updates for HP MSS boxes, this one is 5.12 as opposed to 5.11 from HP. If you RPD into your server and browse to http://myserver:9000 you will see some extra configurations like Facebook,Photobucket,Flickr,…there's a review Andrew. I'm to lazy.
oh come on mate – write up a review for me 🙂
you know you want to!
Andrew