[dba-Tech] A new media player

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

Jim