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[paul.raulerson]

Our new TV is supposedly DLNA happy (Panasonic TC-60AS530U) and one of the reasons we bought it was to try and stream video from a MC instance to it. Hopefully this will work better than just attaching a HDMI cable to the AVR does, since every time we remotely access the Windows PC it looses the screen, and the Mac version is not yet capable of streaming video, at least directly.

So, if you guys wouldn't mind answering some more dumb questions, I would seriously appreciate it.

(1) Can we stream DLNA from our Mac version of MC (primary) to the Television?
(2) If we stream DLNA, can we tell the system to output the *audio* to our AVR? 2 Channel sound is perfectly fine.
(3) If that won't work, can we stream DLNA to a Roku3 or an ATV3 so we do get audio the way we want?
(4) Has anyone tried this kind of streaming with the files stored on a NAS? Or should I go grab some 4TB disks and stack 'em next to the Mac?

Thanks!

If anyone has other ideas that make more sense (buy a new AVR that accepts DLNA streams?) please feel free to share them with us. The goal is to have our music sound just exactly like it does today, and to eliminate the store of DVD's we have around here by putting them "online."  That task will take a while, as RIPing a DVD often takes upwards of an hour, even on an i7 Macbook Pro.

-Paul

[MrC]

Hi  paul.raulerson,

Your questions are about video, yet you knowingly mention MC Mac.  So you are aware that MC Mac doesn't support video.  With that, I'll continue.

1. Yes.  But let's clarify "stream".  MC is a DLNA server.  And it is a DLNA controller, and as such it can "push" content to remote DLNA media players.  But this requires that the device itself supports being pushed to.  This is less often supported than a "pull", where the device itself is the controller and requests content from the server (MC).  The pull mode is where you operate the device and use its UI to request content.  So you'll have to test out both methods to see if and how well they work

2. Not with DLNA.  The files are pushed or pulled to the final rendering device.  Now your Panasonic might (and probably does) have an audio return channel (ARC), which allows you to hook up an HDMI cable between the receiver/amp and the TV, and even though content goes to the TV, the audio goes back on the return channel to the receiver/amp.  You'll have to learn about your receiver/amp ARC capabilities.

3. See above.

4. It doesn't matter where the files are stored, so long as MC sees them in the file system.  MC imports the files and Windows handles the remote file system (essentially transparent to MC).

[paul.raulerson]

Thanks - I did not know about the push/pull thing in DLNA.

Yes, we prefer MC on a Mac, but can easily enough run it under Windows if necessary. I was not sure the Mac version will even recognize and serve video files, as I just have never tried.

This is kinda weird, as I argued video wasn't important when they were deciding to do a Mac version. But if I can use MC to store and stream or serve video files, even if it cannot play them, that might be the perfect answer.

-Paul