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[reinhars]

Hi,

it seems that are some issues with DLNA.

1) If am I playing video files in my TV from MC over DLNA, the audiostream seems to play the default language. This means a english production is playing english audio and a german production is playing german audio. There is no way to change the audio channel. The seetings in the video section for default language is ignored. Is there any solution or workaround?

2) When playing video over DLNA and I want to skip the chapter in the movie, it skips to the next movie in row (backward /forward), but no chapter skip. Is there any solution or workaround?

3) Via DLNA it's only possible to connect to 1 DLNA-servers database. The option on MC is greyed out, if I want to make a connect to a second DLNA-server database. Works this as designed or do I make some handling faults??

Thanks Reiner

[JimH]

I don't know about 1 and 2, but on 3 you can only connect to one server at a time.  You can switch to another server, but you will disconnect from the first.

[reinhars]

Hi Jim,

thanks for the answer, but can you please comment on 1 and 2. Is this a malfunction by user, my TV or MC??

Thanks Reiner

[energy_tone]

Hi reinhars,
  I'm still finding my way around MC, but I'm very familiar with the PS3 Media Server.  I really like the PS3MS, but it doesn't offer anything near the custumizaiton capability that MC offers.  Anyway back to your questions....

1. I don't think this is a function of DLNA, but rather the player.  A DLNA renderer just plays what gets served to it.  On the PS3MS I have the option of browsing to a #Transcode# folder that will play my ripped DVDs with the different audio encodings.  PS3MS uses VideoLAN (VLC) to do the transcoding.  So I can choose any of the options that would be available to me as if I had the DVD in a player attached to my TV.  I don't know if MC will do this or not since at the moment I've been much more concerened with loading Metadata than playback of media that has multiple audio tracks.

2. In my experience I don't recall ever being able to skip chapters over a DLNA stream.  Don't know if this is possible or not, but I haven't really missed it since the PS3 has this awesome scan function that allows me to browse media by a "filmstrip" at the bottom of the screen.  This feature brings up a thumbnail of scenes for intervals I choose of 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes.  Since I'm able to scan in this manner I haven't missed the skip/chapter that I'd have if I were using a regular DVD.

Good luck.
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