On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:40 AM, MonkeyPet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:monkeypet@gmail.com">monkeypet@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Eric Smith <<a href="mailto:erictsmith@gmail.com">erictsmith@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Boleslaw Ciesielski <<a href="mailto:bolek-mythtv@curl.com">bolek-mythtv@curl.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Linuxguy123 wrote:<br>
>> > I'm in the market to buy a new TV. I'm contemplating setting up a myth<br>
>> > TV server/system.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Several of the TVs I am looking at appear to support some sort of<br>
>> > Internet capability. Ie the Samsung 52LN650.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/samsung-ln52a650/4505-6482_7-32887597.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody" target="_blank">http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/samsung-ln52a650/4505-6482_7-32887597.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody</a><br>
>> ><br>
>> > I am wondering if such a TV could connected directly to a mythTV backend<br>
>> > (server), without the need for a local front end PC. Has anyone tried<br>
>> > this ?<br>
>><br>
>> myth-0.21-fixes upnp server works out of the box with Pioneer PRO-111FD<br>
>> TV (which claims to be "DLNA certified").<br>
>><br>
>> The playback is very smooth and there is no deinterlacing issues etc.<br>
>> (TV handles everything by itself). But a lot of the functionality is<br>
>> lost (not even fast-forward, at least with HD MPEG2s).<br>
>><br>
>> Bolek<br>
><br>
> I bought a 47ln750 about a month ago. (Fantastic TV). I'd been meaning to<br>
> test out the DLNA feature since I got it, but never got around to it. You<br>
> reminded me to do so. I was pretty amazed that with zero configuration it<br>
> pulled up a list of all of my recorded tv from the backend. However, each<br>
> and every file fails with something along the lines of "unknown format". My<br>
> content is all mpeg2, which should be supported, so I'm not sure where the<br>
> disconnect is. I'll poke a little longer and see what I find.<br>
<br>
</div></div>I got the SAMSUNG LN46A850. TV is great and extremely thin (over<br>
priced too). It was able to find my mp3s/videos on the backend, but<br>
couldn't play them with the error message unknown format. I didn't<br>
spend much time fiddling with it yet. So now it is hooked up to a mac<br>
mini running linux that I run the mythtv-frontend on. I hope to be<br>
able to fiddle with the DLNA features later on and stream audio and<br>
video directly to it soon without the PC attached.</blockquote><div><br><br>I did a little searching on the web and found this post on why the samsung tvs cannot talk with tversity. <a href="http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10992&p=51899#p50761">http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10992&p=51899#p50761</a>. Long and short of the post is that samsung is expecting a response to<b> <a href="http://getcontentFeatures.dlna.org">getcontentFeatures.dlna.org</a>: 1</b> which tversity is not supplying. I have not had a chance to look at the upnp code in myth yet, but suspect we could be seeing a similar issue.<br>
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