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Title: Using MC 16 as a DLNA server ONLY
Post by: rmiller66 on July 07, 2011, 10:43:03 pm: I am a bit overwhelmed.

I have a decent knowledge of codecs and the like, but no matter what i do I cannot figure out how to get MC16 to play through its DLNA server to a SONY Blu-Ray DLNA enabled player properly.

I can see the server, no problem. It will even playback .mkv files (2gb>) however they begin to stutter on the audio track very badly after a while.

I have gone so far as to configure a fresh Windows XP Pentium 4 2.8ghz machine with nothing on it except MC16. Same problem as my Core 2 duo (albeit a bit slower)

There are NO codec packs installed just MC 16.0.121.

Please, can someone assist me in setting up the correct configuration so I can play back seamlessly? After that maybe we can work on the no seek issue (Fast Forward and Rewind)

Thanks for everyones' hard work.

Rick
Title: Re: Using MC 16 as a DLNA server ONLY
Post by: bob on July 08, 2011, 10:38:11 am: Filters and codecs aren't used for DLNA conversion.
What model BD player?
I assume the files are being converted. You may have to drop the video bitrate for your player.
Try editing the ffmpeg.xml file in Appdata. Look for the entry upnpdvd.

<upnpdvd>-target ntsc-dvd -ps 2000000000 -b 2700k -minrate 2700k -maxrate 2700k</upnpdvd>

This works fine on our BDP-S570
Title: Re: Using MC 16 as a DLNA server ONLY
Post by: rmiller66 on July 08, 2011, 04:32:52 pm: That is exactly the type of info I was looking for!

The Sony Blu-Ray is the BDP-bx37 (which is really the BDP-S370) which I believe the only diffrence between it and the 570 is yours has wireless built in and I do not.,

I am using a plain old 100 baseT connection and am seeing rates as high as 9mbits.

I will try editing that line now and see what happens!

Thanks!!

Rick
Title: Re: Using MC 16 as a DLNA server ONLY
Post by: rmiller66 on July 31, 2011, 09:41:37 am: edited as suggested...still stutters :(
Title: Re: Using MC 16 as a DLNA server ONLY
Post by: bob on August 08, 2011, 11:54:18 am: Quote from: rmiller66 on July 31, 2011, 09:41:37 am
edited as suggested...still stutters :(
Is it converting? Try turning on "always convert" under Tools->Options->Media Network->Add or Configure DLNA servers->Video
Title: Re: Using MC 16 as a DLNA server ONLY
Post by: rmiller66 on August 09, 2011, 07:41:58 am: It is set to always convert.

This is really aggravating because I have not changed any configuration. Only the auto update from J.river to non beta versions. Now it is broken.

R
Title: Re: Using MC 16 as a DLNA server ONLY
Post by: bob on August 09, 2011, 10:08:02 am: When I had a P4 it wasn't able to keep up with encoding to mpeg2 for streaming for all file types. What is your CPU usage like when you are trying to play?
Title: Re: Using MC 16 as a DLNA server ONLY
Post by: rmiller66 on August 14, 2011, 11:13:02 am: It seems that its FFMPEG. It is using 99 percent of the CPU time. The old version (I wish I knew WHICH old version of MC!) of ffmpeg didnt do that at all/

Rick
Title: Re: Using MC 16 as a DLNA server ONLY
Post by: JimH on August 14, 2011, 11:27:03 am: Quote from: rmiller66 on July 07, 2011, 10:43:03 pm
There are NO codec packs installed just MC 16.0.121.
Did you try the build from the top of the MC16 board?
Title: Re: Using MC 16 as a DLNA server ONLY
Post by: rmiller66 on August 14, 2011, 11:51:51 am: Yes I have.

Seems that somewhere something changed radically. I believe I did use a MC16 version successfully, but somewhere during the update cycle it broke.

R
Title: Re: Using MC 16 as a DLNA server ONLY
Post by: bob on August 15, 2011, 11:22:08 am: The DLNA video transcoding to mpeg2/dvd code is currently undergoing a lot of work. You might want to try again in a few builds. ffmpeg is probably going away.