network drive for streaming purposes, and the ISO's reside on the hard
drive attached to the Oppo. I like the flexibility of playing FLAC's
using Twonky, especially the ability to easily select tracks by genre,
artist, etc. or set up playlists. Also, one of the recent firmware
revisions made selecting and retrieving FLAC files via Twonky very
fast compared to the original firmware in the Oppo. The ISO is nice
to have if you want to burn a backup copy to a disc or access the
other material such as videos, etc. It requires more hard drive space
to keep both the ISO and FLAC files, but each serves it's purpose.
Be aware that there have been reports of some multi-bay enclosures not
working with the Oppo. The Oppo also does not currently support hard
drives larger than 2TB's. I have been in contact with Oppo and they
are supposed to be investigating this and hopefully there will be a
firmware update to support 3TB and larger hard drives in the future.
On Aug 1, 9:52 pm, citysoundman <bobkirschn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. BTW I see you are on The Hub, I am now a member
> there.
>
> So since the Oppo doesn't support AOB's then that rules out the idea
> of AOB streaming. Not a bad thing actually, since I realize that there
> are many options that I am sorting through in order to figure out how
> best to organize and play material. Knowing that the Oppo plays iso's
> on attached storage might help me figure things out. But it seems that
> Flac is really the most flexible file type - it can be streamed
> easily, can hold multichannel and hi res media, and it doesn't take up
> tons of storage.
>
> So is the idea of keeping a "complete" Flac collection (ALL of my
> audio, both hi res/multichannel and stereo CD audio) a good one? If
> so, I guess I will be keeping multiple file types of the same album -
> I want the iso's for backup/disc burning and the flacs for streaming/
> playback. Or perhaps once I burn the DVD-A disc I can keep this as my
> backup, have the flac for playback, and in theory I wouldn't need the
> iso anymore...some food for thought.
>
> I believe a 4-bay NAS device is next on my list.
>
> On Aug 1, 5:28 pm, scolumbo <sacolu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> > I use Twonky to stream to my Oppo 93. Unfortunately, the Oppo supports
> > the VOB container format, but not AOB. I have FLAC files ripped from
> > most of my DVD-A's so they can be streamed via Twonky. No problem
> > streaming multichannel or stereo FLAC files ripped from DVD-A's.
> > However, since Oppo began supporting ISO's from attached storage, I
> > now play my DVD-A ISO's on the Oppo from an attached hard drive. It's
> > nice to have full menu control and access to any videos and the hi-rez
> > stereo tracks from the ISO's. The hard drive attached to the Oppo
> > also serves as a back-up to the ISO's on my PC hard drive. The only
> > hassle is disconnecting the attached hard drive and lugging it the PC
> > to synch/add files. There is currently no way to stream ISO's via
> > DLNA, supposedly because the DLNA protocol doesn't support it.
>
> > On Aug 1, 1:27 am, citysoundman <bobkirschn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I have a bunch of DVD-A discs stored as .iso files. I mount them on my
> > > desktop (Mac), and I would like to stream the hi res DVD-A files
> > > (Audio Object Files, or AOB's) to my Oppo BDP-93. Currently I am using
> > > Twonky, and I can only stream the VOB Dolby Surround files in the
> > > VIDEO_TS folder, not the AOB files in the AUDIO_TS folder. It seems
> > > that Twonky does not support AOB streaming.
>
> > > Is it possible to stream the AOB files? Or is it standard practice to
> > > convert the files to Flac and stream them as Flac? I would love to be
> > > able to stream the AOB's if possible.
>
> > > Thanks in advance!
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