Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Feb 19 23:34:40 CST 2014
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? 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 ----- > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com