[dba-Tech] A new media player

On 2014-02-19 11:34 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Peter:
>
> I am not familiar with the sound qualities and standards...thanks for the info now I will look it up but in the meantime any further details would be greatly appreciated. As for our TV, it is cable for most channels but the internet is connected directly to the network's switch via a physical LAN cable connection, from the back of the set...is that good?

A receiver containing an 80+W/ch amplifier connected to decent speakers 
will sound incomparably better than all the TV monitors in the world 
laid end to end.

Most of our music is classical (for which audio quality is crucial; 
basically the requirement is an S/N ratio near 90db with 20-20kHz flat 
response and an undistorted sound stage; such requirements do little or 
nothing for for pop music with its ersatz sound stages and 
sensationalised sound), ripped to .flac audio or .mp4/.iso video files 
on a server, or heard through internet broadcasting (eg KUSC-FM, 
SiriusXM), coming in via a LogiTech SqueezeBox or KdLinks video settop 
box, both with digital input connections to the receiver. Those files 
look & sound a whole lot better coming down an ethernet wire than over 
the best possible wifi.

A single simple gizmo like the Serviio could replace the Kdlinks and 
Logtech settop boxes if it could transmit all that audio & video through 
an ethernet connection.

PB

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>
> I ripped one blue-ray disk onto the server and I could not imagine a Wi-Fi connection handling a 4.7GB stream of data.
>    
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 1:26:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] A new media player
>
> On 2014-02-19 12:04 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>> Hi All:
>>
>> Recently, streaming video from a server to the Samsung TV, has changed. The Smart Samsung has been using some version of Linux to run its web interface and manage its setting. The FE is a pretty rough implementation to say the least and sometimes the codecs would no translate. Some versions of AVI, MKV, FLV and MP4 encoded video would fail to display for no good reason.
>>
>> Ever so often the TV asks to run another update and after the most recent update all the various codec type played without issue. Upon checking further into the code, it appears that Samsung used the code source from a new streaming package.
>>
>> Until now the only steaming packages that were semi universal were Pserver and Plex. Now there is a new package that will allow you to stream video to and from all your media devices called Serviio. (The PRO package only costs $25.00 and it runs on all platforms.)
>>
>> http://www.serviio.org
> Looks good---a more general solution than special purpose servers like
> Logitech SqueezeBox Touch, KdLinks &c which I use.
>
> But: if you want best sound, you want to feed the signal to your
> receiver rather than your TV. If your receiver doesn't have DLNA logic
> then you need a DLNA dongle. Again for best video & sound you want a
> wired ethernet connection rather than wifi. And there's the rub---who
> makes a DLNA dongle with ethernet in and HDMI out?
>
> PB
>
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