2011-08-30, 09:29
The DLNA server in XBMC is pretty primitive, and I don't think there's much to set up so I doubt it's a mistake on your part.
It's odd that films will play from a USB drive directly connected to the TV but not from the XBMC DLNA server. As far as I know the XBMC DLNA server just streams the file contents without doing any modifications. It might be worth enabling debug logging on XBMC (System settings, System, Debugging) to see what the log file says when you attempt the DLNA connection. If you want to try this enable debug logging then restart XBMC, try to play the film on the TV then close XBMC again. Post the xbmc.log on pastebin.com.
A quick way to open the debug log is to press Windows-R and in the Run dialog type:
"%appdata%\xbmc\xbmc.log"
(including the quotes). Click OK and the log should open in Notepad. Copy and paste the log into pastebin.com and post the link it gives you here.
JR
It's odd that films will play from a USB drive directly connected to the TV but not from the XBMC DLNA server. As far as I know the XBMC DLNA server just streams the file contents without doing any modifications. It might be worth enabling debug logging on XBMC (System settings, System, Debugging) to see what the log file says when you attempt the DLNA connection. If you want to try this enable debug logging then restart XBMC, try to play the film on the TV then close XBMC again. Post the xbmc.log on pastebin.com.
A quick way to open the debug log is to press Windows-R and in the Run dialog type:
"%appdata%\xbmc\xbmc.log"
(including the quotes). Click OK and the log should open in Notepad. Copy and paste the log into pastebin.com and post the link it gives you here.
JR
