File drive with simultaneous access via LAN and USB?

Question

Iron

There is a Samsung Smart-TV TV that can play video files from a USB drive and from local network media servers. There is also a network storage DNS-323, which runs a UPnP AV media server, and which independently downloads torrents. Downloaded video files can be immediately watched on TV, very convenient, if not for one BUT.
Some file formats are not supported for network playback (TV says "unsupported file format" and refuses to play). You have to copy such files first to a flash drive, and then stick it into the TV, then they only play.
I can't find a convenient solution to this problem. Are there any file drives that can work both via USB and via the network at the same time? Or some other way to solve this problem? There is an unused old laptop under Windows-XP, you can use it somehow. The main thing is to do nothing with your hands, turn it on once, set it up and forget it.

Answer 1

I really didn’t want to bother with flashing the network storage and setting everything up again, and with the purchase of a second Samsung Smart TV, the problem worsened. If the telly of the 7th series of the 11th year did not read only some files, then the device of the 8th series of the 12th year did not even want to display the list of files on the server at all, said that “there is nothing there” and hello.
It was useful to look for the fastest solution to the problem. It was found in the form of installing the wonderful Twonky UPnP/DLNA server on the network storage . The server is apparently outdated, as support for it has been discontinued. But the most important thing is that now everything works great on both TVs! Moreover, those files that were not read before began to be read. Thanks to everyone who led me to the idea of ​​replacing the media server. If anyone is interested, I found the installation instructionshere , since he himself is zero in Linux, he could not do anything without it.

Answer 2

It is fundamentally impossible to create such a drive. Ordinary FS, with which only the TV works, are not designed for simultaneous change by several subscribers.

Answer 3

Perhaps the problem will be solved by updating the firmware of the TV?

Answer 4

I'm afraid to seem like a noob, but in my opinion, the media server accompanies the file indicated to it with some kind of header or wraps it in something, I don't remember already, and only then transfers it to the TV. If he did it wrong, the TV swears just like in your case. Those. the solution must be sought from the side of the media server. At one time, I was pretty tormented in order to correctly configure the media server stream. I can’t look now, the router is different.

Answer 5

The media server on the storage, unfortunately, does not have any settings at all, except for Enable\Disable and the path to the root folder. And in Linux, I, unfortunately, zero is complete. I was able to put a torrent client into it only because I found a step-by-step instruction for complete morons :) Although, if the reason is precisely in it, I am ready to change the network storage altogether, I would only know which one.

Answer 6

Update the firmware of the media server, if there is no official one, then you can risk installing non-official or tweaks. I have a PC with a Home Media Server in my server room. In the default settings, too, many files were not supported, but if you indicate that you have a Samsung TV with DLNA, then everything is ok. I do not remember that something did not pull over the network like that.