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TJExcalibur

TJExcalibur

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My Satellite Setup
Master Focus 90cm .Gigablue UHD Quad 4K on TM 2600 motor. *Tm 5402 HD M3, *Atemio Nemesis. *Not Used.
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Southern England
:mad: I have been trying for ages to get my mini dlna to stream to the tv's and an enquiry was made by "blue eyes" here. Why is it so hard to get a picture from your den to the tv in the lounge when they get pictures from the space station which is further away..........
 
Maybe instead of consulting ol' Blue Eyes, try ol' Yellow Eyes...

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Hope this is not considered off topic, but i used to have problems streaming from my laptop using xmbx now kodi purely as a DLNA server

In the end i had my satellite fitter cable in an outdoor 20 metre ethernet cable around the house from the router to the tv's

I have never looked back, it has been amazing, no drop out's, no connection issues, all good
 
TJExcalibur said:
:mad: I have been trying for ages to get my mini dlna to stream to the tv's and an enquiry was made by "blue eyes" here. Why is it so hard to get a picture from your den to the tv in the lounge when they get pictures from the space station which is further away..........
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Sometimes our TV (2010 Philips something-or-other) won't read files where minidlna has set a media-type it doesn't like. I used to have to go in and use sqlite3 on the db to remove the offending field, so without changing the file itself the server sends a slightly different type and the TV is fine with it. Some file formats it won't read at all.

Also - DLNA. Pig of a protocol :(
 
Journey said:
Hope this is not considered off topic, but i used to have problems streaming from my laptop using xmbx now kodi purely as a DLNA server

In the end i had my satellite fitter cable in an outdoor 20 metre ethernet cable around the house from the router to the tv's

I have never looked back, it has been amazing, no drop out's, no connection issues, all good
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Its not the wireless signal that is the problem. I can stream video from my computer and it works a treat but the TV's, Panasonic and Sony will not play ts files. I have yet to work out how to stream live TV, spent ages altering the minidlna config file to no avail. I will have to think of another way, cables runs are not a problem, maybe HDMI with adaptors over ethernet .....
 
TJExcalibur said:
Its not the wireless signal that is the problem. I can stream video from my computer and it works a treat but the TV's, Panasonic and Sony will not play ts files. I have yet to work out how to stream live TV, spent ages altering the minidlna config file to no avail. I will have to think of another way, cables runs are not a problem, maybe HDMI with adaptors over ethernet .....
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I too have a Panasonic smart TV and the DLNA works really well on it, i have tried some TS files (downloaded ones) they were large 1080i files and they worked sweet

Is your Panasonic on the very latest FW ? Mine usually nags me if a new one is available and won't let me do anything until i have updated
 
Journey said:
I too have a Panasonic smart TV and the DLNA works really well on it, i have tried some TS files (downloaded ones) they were large 1080i files and they worked sweet

Is your Panasonic on the very latest FW ? Mine usually nags me if a new one is available and won't let me do anything until i have updated
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Latest update so maybe its the minidlna config file that is wrong. I recorded some sat tv and it plays on the sat box but is just blank on the Panasonic tv.
 
DLNA is a network protocol. It just drives the file access and permissions and so on. Streaming is done with streaming protocols like RTP. This is done by connecting to the stream somesting like rtp://IP adress\:\port number". An Extrend rercever e.g. does supply that protocol, hence you can just connect to the stream and lets say VLC player picks it up and displays the mpeg video encoded into the stream.

DLNA just acts like a kind of a network drive. A file is opened and displayed on the device. Or it uses a display device like a TV or network radio to play a recorded file on that device.

So if the device does not supply rtp or one of its derivates there is no streaming possible.

I own a Panasonic HDD/Blue ray recoder. I can access the device and play a recorded file but I connot stream a currently running program into the network.
 
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