Media Streaming to Sony BDP-S770

General discussion about the media server. Feature requests. Hints, tips and tricks.
Locked
mylo__
Posts:2
Joined:Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:12 pm
AV Hardware:Sony BDP-S770, Synology DS211J
Media Streaming to Sony BDP-S770

Post by mylo__ » Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:18 pm

I have scanned all the media from my Synology NAS and can see it in Twonky and it plays on the PC, I can see Twonky in the menu of the Sony BDP and when you go into the folders you can see the files but when you try and access them all you get is the message "no playable file"??

All the files on the NAS are stored in my iTunes library.

Any direction would be appreciated

User avatar
parnott
Posts:326
Joined:Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:55 pm
AV Hardware:Twonky, WDTV Live, XBMC (Linux & Windows)

Re: Media Streaming to Sony BDP-S770

Post by parnott » Mon Jun 20, 2011 7:03 pm

Well here is a start-
1) What type of files will not play? Audio, Video?
2) Do these files have DRM? If so then won't work.
3) What is the container/codec/profile of the files that will not play?
4) Does your Sony BDP-S770 support these files combination of container/codec/profile?

If you want to discover the details of your media files then i suggest you try mediainfo-
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

It does a good job of detailing the contents of media files.

mylo__
Posts:2
Joined:Mon Jun 20, 2011 6:12 pm
AV Hardware:Sony BDP-S770, Synology DS211J

Re: Media Streaming to Sony BDP-S770

Post by mylo__ » Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:57 am

All the music files are mpeg 4 and for the most have been ripped form CD so no DRM issues, I think is a simple error on my part as they play fine with the Twonkey console its just asetting somwhere I have missed which permits BDP seeing what is in the folder?

User avatar
parnott
Posts:326
Joined:Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:55 pm
AV Hardware:Twonky, WDTV Live, XBMC (Linux & Windows)

Re: Media Streaming to Sony BDP-S770

Post by parnott » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:17 pm

The specs for this player (found here http://www.sonystyle.com/wcsstore/SonyS ... 225464.pdf)
says that it will only play MP3 and LPCM (.wav) via DLNA. See page 34 and footnote 5.

Locked