a Plex client is now available for Samsung TV's<br><br><a href="http://elan.plexapp.com/2012/08/03/welcoming-plex-on-samsung/">http://elan.plexapp.com/2012/08/03/welcoming-plex-on-samsung/</a><br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Anthony<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 November 2012 09:10, john <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newsgrp1@bestpond.com" target="_blank">newsgrp1@bestpond.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 14/11/12 00:29, Ken Mandelberg wrote:<br>
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Has anyone got mythtv to work with Samsung Allshare, the built in DLNA client on Samsung TV's? My TV see's the mythtv server but then bombs after I select it.<br>
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I recently bought a Samsung 32" TV (Model UA32ES5500MYXY Series 5) for the bedroom I have it wall mounted and it is connected to my lan via ethernet ( I wasn't prepared to fiddle with another wireless point). I eventually got the network running. It got as far as seeing the mythtv backend which runs upnp, and tries to connect, then bombs...as you say.<br>
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I tried setting up minidlna which is recommended by a lot of people, and managed to connect OK. But no myth menus or nice program names! I simply had a list of files, so if I proceeded it was pot luck what was going to be seen, especially as I have several hundred recordings across two backends and the main frontend in the lounge room.<br>
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I set about attempting to get the program names showing, and used the mythlink script. I just used a suggested set of options I found on this list (I think) which put the series title first and then ordered the episodes. That seemed to work at first, but then while I had a list of all the titles as I went to select the episode, in the majority of cases it listed the file name date & time only, with the occasional one having an episode title.<br>
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Next discovery was as I scrolled (or tapped down the list) I found that after the titles with "Z" I still had showing a huge list of the files names again. Probably from the earlier attempt. So I have to sort out how to get rid of those files appearing. I have since discovered that the fast forward, and rewind buttons on my Samsung remote will do page up & page down through the title listing, so I don't have to click down line by line.<br>
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I had also read of serviio, which seemed a bit more complex than minidlna, so am still considering if it is worth a try.<br>
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To get the TV working to stream MythTV with AllShare, it seems that you need to use a separate dlna server, and then the mythlink script, I am yet to discover the magic of getting that right to display Series Title, then episode title, also I couldn't seem to get any program information either.<br>
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I do not have the dlna server working as well as I would like, and perhaps I should try serviio instead of minidlna.<br>
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Unfortunately, from what I have seen there may also be a bit of variation with AllShare depending on the TV model or series.<br>
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I am fully aware that to get this working "perfectly" i just need to add a frontend, but in my case that is not presently possible. So it would be helpfull to hear from others who have got the upnp/dlna solution working well with a separate dlna server and perhaps some additional ideas on using mythlink or other scripts to give a reasonable menu type display of recording/music/video choices.<br>
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Regards,<br>
John<div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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