Problems with Twonky Server + Samsung TV

[swissGerman]

Hello everybody, excuse me if this question might sound stupid but I´m pretty lost. I read the thread below in which zbug on Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:14 am reported problems on streaming MKV to a Samsung TV. I have a similar problem but not only with MKV.
My brand new QNAP TS 459 Pro (latest firmware installed) with the built-in Twonky apparently does stream via DLNA certain formats such as MP3 and JPG, it also does stream standard-resolution movies (AVI-files). But it apparently does NOT stream HD movies (AVI, MKV) or DIVX files.

Here are the details:
Receiver of the streamed media is a brand new Samsung HD TV – model 8700. NAS is a brand new QNAP TS 459 Pro. Firmware been updated to latest version, UpnP enabled etc. And the NAS has a built-in Twonky Media Server, which I configured.

The Twonky on my NAS streams fine all my JPG pictures and also some standard-resolution movies in AVI etc.
But it looks like it does not stream HD files (e.g. AVI or MKV containers). It also appears not to stream divx files. E.g. I recently downloaded that tiny DIVX video from vod.divx.com needed to register the TV to play DivX VOD content. Twonky obviously did not stream it (the Samsung TV said it was an inappropriate format) – but when I copy it on a USB device and plug that into my TV, the TV works well with it. The TV should also work well with AVI HD / MKV container – but apparently does not if I try to stream these from the NAS.

Anybody an idea what I should do? Or maybe it is not the Twonky but something else ?

[spaceman]

I have the same exact issue as swissGerman.

I have a Samsung PN50C8000 with the lastest firmware ( 1026) running all media from my HP MediaServer EX490 with TwonkyServer 6.01.
All pictures, music and video files play fine exect for .MKV files.
However, MKV files do play from the USB drive as swissGerman also mentioned, so its not the supportability of the TV.

On the TV's infomation page the Path of the MKV file I noticed that the following:
"http://1.1.1.1:9000/disk/NON...."
( 1.1.1.1 being the server IP)
On the page I cannot view the entire path, but i thought it was weird that "NON" with part of it

Please let us know when this is fixed.
Thanks

[swissGerman]

I have found a work-around by converting the MKV files onto another format (.m2ts). That helps despite of course it requires conversion first, and you have to control what you do with the subtitles.
Read here:

http://www.twonkyforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... 341#p31341

[spaceman]

Converting the MKV files into another format is NOT a solution but a work-around until a fix is place. I my case the work-around will not work for me. I have too many MKV files and i don't have the time to covert them or even alll the additional space for them.

I'm still waiting for a a reply from Twonky.....

[linxoldy]

This sounds like a feature of the Samsung TV, and I'd guess that Twonky support will not know capabilities of every device on the market.

My Sony BDP-S570 does not support MP4 streamed via DLNA even though the player will play MP4 files plugged into it via the USB port. My player will however stream DivX and Xvid AVI files over DLNA. Although many users are disappointed to discover this the information is actually in the instruction manual for my BDP-S570 in the small print.

Personally I'd like to have on the fly transcoding from Twonky for the MP4 formats but the processor on my server is not up to it, so I need to convert my MP4s to Xvid AVIs.

I'm guessing you'd need ffmpeg installed on your server, to make sure the location files are setup correctly, and then to create a descent DESC file to do on the fly conversion, presumably to MPEG2... I would be interested to hear if anyone has got a working install of this.

By the way, the Sony BDP-S570 does not support HD video over DLNA either.

Dave