I have recently purchased a new Samsung D series TV: UE55D6500. I can watch all my files (avi, mkv) etc. But i can not move forward or rewind at all. Each time when I press forward button my tv says that is not supported. I can only skip 15 seconds when I press the right cursor button. I have the latest twonky server installed on my openSuSE server. I've already assigned Samsung TV as media receiver in Twonky settings. But it does not solve the problem.
I have installed a trial version of the Twonky server, if it is important.
Is there any way to get the FF/RW buttons working?
Forward/Rewind on Samsung LED D Series does not work
Re: Forward/Rewind on Samsung LED D Series does not work
i have a LE40C650 and i can't foward or rewind too 
Also using the last version of Twonky server and in trial
Also using the last version of Twonky server and in trial
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Re: Forward/Rewind on Samsung LED D Series does not work
Short answer:
Work was done on this issue back in May and June. We believe we have resolved this issue as best as we can.
Long answer:
The Twonky MKV scanner is now correctly extracting the duration from MKV files. But it seems that there is something else the Samsung TV needs for proper FF/FREW support.
Since FF/Rew works with the Samsung server we analyzed the communication between those two devices and tried to add the missing parts to Twonky.
1) The Samsung server uses this format to specify the duration "h.mm.ss", Twonky uses "h.mm.ss.xxx" (where xxx is ms)
2) When streaming a MKV from the Samsung server, the TV uses a proprietary mechanism to fetch the duration from the server. (Uses the http header "getMediaInfo.sec: 1" to request the duration using a HEAD request, the response contains a header field giving the duration in ms.)
We changed the format of the duration in Twonky and re-implemented the proprietary mechanism, but still FF/FREW does not work properly when streaming some MKV files from TwonkyServer to Samsung TVs.
From what we can see on the network, the TV doesn't even try to jump to a different location in the stream. We assume that for some reason the TV thinks Twonky cannot do byte seeks on these MKV files.
If anyone else has additional suggestions of things we can try let us know, otherwise we're out of ideas on this.
- Rick
Work was done on this issue back in May and June. We believe we have resolved this issue as best as we can.
Long answer:
The Twonky MKV scanner is now correctly extracting the duration from MKV files. But it seems that there is something else the Samsung TV needs for proper FF/FREW support.
Since FF/Rew works with the Samsung server we analyzed the communication between those two devices and tried to add the missing parts to Twonky.
1) The Samsung server uses this format to specify the duration "h.mm.ss", Twonky uses "h.mm.ss.xxx" (where xxx is ms)
2) When streaming a MKV from the Samsung server, the TV uses a proprietary mechanism to fetch the duration from the server. (Uses the http header "getMediaInfo.sec: 1" to request the duration using a HEAD request, the response contains a header field giving the duration in ms.)
We changed the format of the duration in Twonky and re-implemented the proprietary mechanism, but still FF/FREW does not work properly when streaming some MKV files from TwonkyServer to Samsung TVs.
From what we can see on the network, the TV doesn't even try to jump to a different location in the stream. We assume that for some reason the TV thinks Twonky cannot do byte seeks on these MKV files.
If anyone else has additional suggestions of things we can try let us know, otherwise we're out of ideas on this.
- Rick
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