Twonky Forum

Dear all,

i'm a newbie on DNLA and currently eval some alternatives to WMP. Must say Twonky is easy to install and looks & feels very comfortable. Since some days i am the proud owner of this TVSet and my idea almost came true to get a big screen to watch my huge picture archive any time and also watch some "dark and dingy moviez" occasionally.

Setting up Twonky was no big deal, by today i'm running three twonky media servers for a test on XP Prof and Home and w2k, one is wireless (Home) for test and a second (Prof) and third (w2k) is connected to my 100Mbit wired LAN. I use fixed IP's for all, no other media service is running simultaniously while evaling Twonky.

The Sony LCD is also doing fine on network to internet, both Twonkys and the Sony can chat as well and viewing pictures or play music via Twonky is working. So this was a good start !

While playing with the Sony first i did a USBKey with Audio, Pictures and a mpeg1 clip and verified the performance versus Twonky - it appears there is no lack of speed on pictures and audio - regardless of wired or wireless server.

The problem is the video - the fileformat mpeg1 used by the TV is not the best, but this TV plays it from the Stick and Twonky does not (yet).

I should better say: the file is not listed on the TV Menu for the twonky server in opposite to proper listing and function via the USB Stick - As main indicator it is that the video chapter on the GUI of the TV is not active - just the pale logo and no way to enter this directory. via the other chapters like picture or audio the next level which has a video subfolder responds for the twonky folders: " no such video file present " (in sense / it's german) - which makes sense from Sonys logic.

At the current, the folders on all devices (Twonky and USBStick) are named same, just the twonky servers differ on names, but contentwise it's all same.

Browsing from any other workstation at home to the twonky server shows this files to be listed. Opening this videofile on the first twonky with the media browser from the second twonky works also...

Resetting the device list or restarting twonky server bring back the Sony always to be a generic media server in all cases....any other profil does not work are causes the TV to stop working withTwonky.

So i wonder what i missed or have done wrong...probably a "newbie fault" or a missing information, i'm grateful for any suggestion how to make it work.

many thanks & best regards from Frankfurt/Germany
Peter

Nobody has an answer yet.. ? So i need to answer by my own. I will stay easy on this - i am not an insider on Codecs and Formats.

It seems this is a SONY issue, not a Twonky trouble at all !

There is a difference on USB and DLNA on Bravia, or better : it is still not fixed from Sony on their latest version of W5800 Series. The DLNA Client is still not to be 100% accurate versus DLNA Descriptions.

Sad enough, Sony is one of the inventors of this technique.

My Bravia is at SwRel. 1.130SA - only god knows if this is really latest - i need to check this.

But here is the current result :

On USB it is only possible to run mpeg1
As DLNA Client via LAN it is only possible to run mpeg2
Vice versa it always fails

Maybe or not you know the following, i found this discussion in a german speaking forum to be helpful

http://www.hifi-forum.de/viewthread-144-3867.html - scroll down in the thread to see some specs written there

There are hundred of peoples tryin' to make avi's, mpeg's and else work, results vary on and it is really not satisfying for sure :

only a few formats have been successful yet - most counts size and framerate on mpeg1 or 2 to be not more than 720x576 and 29,xx pics/s

However, try to get G-Spot v2.70a, a tiny freeware tool (http://gspot.headbands.com) to identify your suspect files to be in range to be played on your Bravia...

I adressed this story to Sony Support and now i eagerly wait for their reply

regards

Try using TMS Version 4.4.11. I could'nt get My Sony TV to work with V5. I had to regress to V4 to get it to work with my JPG files.

Hello,

this will not make a difference at all - the prob is about file formats - Sony Support came back with some delay with a standard answer -- via DLNA only AVCHD, HDV(MPEG2-TS), MPEG2-PS as videostreams are support, no DIVX or any other. There is a list (a bit out of date) but will give more info about playable fileformats

http://support.sony-europe.com/TV/tutor ... DL-46W5800

Stepping back to older Twonky's will no make it better, even worse. And honestly, a old version will not be a solution

regards
Peter