Installing FFmpeg on a ReadyNAS Duo

[DavidHB]

(04-09-2014 19:11)simoncn Wrote:  I don't find it surprising that the current NETGEAR range is lacking in third-party apps given the way they have treated third-party app developers (see this post). I remain undecided whether it is worth investing my time and money to create a MinimServer package that runs on the current NETGEAR range.

It seems to me that you have answered your own question. To support all NETGEAR NAS models currently in use requires (I think) at least 4 differently compiled and/or packaged versions of any given app. That can hardly be a cost-effective maintenance workload, particularly when NETGEAR put so little effort into documenting their systems and providing useful app stores and installation facilities.

I don't think that it is an accident that more external apps are still offered for the original SPARC-based ReadyNASs than for the later models. Once NETGEAR showed their true colours in bringing out a succession of devices without forwards or backwards compatibility, developers moved their interest elsewhere, and who can blame them? Even if you were to bite the bullet and support the latest models, as you quite rightly say, there is nothing to prevent NETGEAR from changing tack yet again, and leaving you high and dry once more.

David