[pit234a]

Let me ask a question, I don't want to start an extra thread, it may fit here, but is a bit off topic, I know.
I often hear about such stuff like “SqueezeCenter and Twonky” and I don't understand, what they do and what they are useful for.
My music and films are stored somewhere in my network (almost on the Thecus 5200) and I can reach them from every place I configured so and that is it. What else should I want? What ever I want hear or see, I start one appropriate program locally and play it over the net, as it would be locally present. Thats almost ever done with a mouse click or two or I have to chose it via remote control and this because I use also digital sat receivers in the same manner, not only MAC and PC ( I don't use any of Microsoft's Operating Systems however).
Therefore, I really wonder, what piece of software I would need or what it could help me with.
The only thing I know, is the chance to convert a high compressed video stream to one, that my sat receiver could play, so that I am able to watch this movies not only on a PC or MAC and this could be done with VLC, but not directly on the Thecus, because it therefore will be to slow, at least do I believe it would be to slow for that. But this is a task, that is given with the very special environment I have with this sat receivers.
In common, I have no idea what a music server should be good for or what it even is doing. Maybe, you can explain that for me.