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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 18 for Windows => Topic started by: rhkrhk on April 19, 2013, 09:45:37 pm

Title: watching video by DLNA DAC
Post by: rhkrhk on April 19, 2013, 09:45:37 pm

MC plays my videos fine so long as they are on "Player" - USB to external DAC to computer speakers.  Wwhen I click on DAC, and video, I get a list of videos, but MC won't open any of them. Screen completely white.   If MC can find, recognize and play a movie on "Player" why cant it do so when output is via DAC/network?

Doesnt matter when the movie is mp4 or avi.
MC 18/windows 7 64 bit


thanks
rhk

Title: Re: watching video by DLNA DAC
Post by: jmschnur on April 19, 2013, 10:17:54 pm

Same for me.  Advice would be greatly appreciated .  I use dlna to oppo 103.

Title: Re: watching video by DLNA DAC
Post by: Matt on April 19, 2013, 10:20:14 pm

DLNA and local DACs are totally different animals at a technical level.  DLNA works on files.  Local DACs work on a stream of data.

So video will only work with DLNA if your DLNA device does video.  Things like a PS3, Sony BD player, X-box, etc.  There's no practical way to send a DLNA device only the audio stream from a video.

In a home theater installation, where video is important, a DLNA audio DAC doesn't make any sense in my opinion.

You might Google a bit about DLNA to get a better picture of what's happening behind the scenes (if such things interest you).

Title: Re: watching video by DLNA DAC
Post by: jmschnur on April 19, 2013, 11:22:33 pm

My oppo is a video player as well as handling sound well. I would like to play my video files from my library server, only I can not.

Title: Re: watching video by DLNA DAC
Post by: JimH on April 20, 2013, 07:11:50 am

You may need to convert the files.  MC's DLNA settings allow that.  Make sure you have the latest version.

Title: Re: watching video by DLNA DAC
Post by: jmschnur on April 20, 2013, 08:10:37 am

Can I convert to mpeg4?