Serviio is excellent on Synology device

[atairu]

I have been running Serviio on an old xp box to Samsung and xb devices before recently migrated to Synology (a low power, quiet, standalone linux-based NAS device) and Serviio is working excellent on it too. The only time I has a crash of Synology device was when Serviio was trying to do lib updates and I was running some other stuffs on Synology. I have set my Serviio update time to some very high number (999 I think) and have not had any crash. My daughters love Serviio and I have picture of Zip as Serviio icon on my Synology (hope I do not have to pay for copyleft! or pasteright!). Cannot wait for 0.6 from what I have read of the features from Zip.

[zip]

I have picture of Zip as Serviio icon on my Synology

Dude, I feel like a rock star

I came here to say the same thing. When I upgraded to a new NAS, one of the big reasons was for DLNA. I was really disappointed when I had to jump through tons of hoops to get videos to play, and even with tweaking, syno's DLNA server sucks. I just sucked it up and dealt with it, until I heard about Serviio. Serviio is what I wanted from DLNA. Fast, and I can drop just about any old file into a folder of my choosing (it's horrifically irritating that Synology still has this hard coded to a video folder in the root of the volume!), and serviio just figures out the rest.

The install process could have been easier, but overall it wasn't too bad. I am using serviio compiled on a 1.2ghz ARM box (synology ds211j), and streaming to a sony blu ray player.

Btw- for the techier guys out there, you should really look into getting one of these Synology NAS's. They are essentially low power servers that run linux, and the software suite gives a lot of capability. One of my favorite use cases is hearing about a cool movie, loading up the web based torrent client, putting it in action, and then getting home later, and having that movie ready to go without me having to get off the couch.