2009-09-06, 03:10
Hello Guys,
I am new from today on this forum.
I am owning a Sony TV - Bravia KDL-46W5710 (W5500 series) and I'm trying to put together XBMC and the DLNA client of my Bravia.
My problem is this.
I've activated UPnP client, Renderer and Server in XBMC and also created music, photo and video shares where are mp3, jpg and m2ts, mts, mpg 1 & 2 and avi files. Opening these locally using XBMC works fine on my Linux PC.
BUT... Sony's TV doesn't show XBMC neither in Photo, nor in Music nor in Video sections when browsing the "Home" menu.
When going to "Network settings" in TV and choosing "Server diagnostic", the XBMC is found from network, but TV says that it cannot be connected successfully.
When opening found media server, TV will give XBMC's information like IP, UDN, MAC and TCP port.
It ALSO gives this error message "Compatible files could not be found".
I have installed fews weeks ago latest XBMC version (precision: version 9.04.1-jaunty1) on one of my PC (the weakest one -notebook- which is 5 years old) under Linux Ubuntu 9.04 (with dual boot Linux / Windows XP SP3).
Under Linux, XBMC is working fine for both local and LAN media files (WD MyBookWorld NAS with Twonky Media Server). XBMC is really a great S/W.
My LAN setup (compact) is as follows:
PC / LINUX / UBUNTU 9.04 / XBMC / FREEBOX (French ISP tripleplay box) with 100 MB router / LAN CAT 5E CABLE / BRAVIA DLNA Client.
So I am stuck...
And even Googling the web, reading and reading XBMC forum, XBMC Wiki, etc... I cannot find the WHY of my issue and thus the solution!
FYI:
I have tested under both my Linux Ubuntu 9.04 & WXP PC and with the same configuration an other DLNA (just) server; i.e. the latest beta version of PS3 Media Server (even if I am not owning a PS3 but an XBOX 1st G), and this server was working right after installation.
It was immediatly recognized by my Bravia for all A/V files (music, photo and video). My Bravia can directly stream from PS3MS (without any transcoding) MPEG-2, AVCHD (lite and full) and HDV, and with transcoding (renderer) to MPEG-2 a lot of other video well known formats.
There are still a lot of issues with this S/W, but at least I got something working.
Now, I would like really to have both in a given S/W; i.e. a DLNA Client awa a DLNA Server and XBMC is supposed to achieve both.
So, HELP and suggestions would be greatly appreciated for trying to fix the problem I am (we are) currently facing to with XBMC.
Many thanks in advance to the helpers.
Cheers.
I am new from today on this forum.
I am owning a Sony TV - Bravia KDL-46W5710 (W5500 series) and I'm trying to put together XBMC and the DLNA client of my Bravia.
My problem is this.
I've activated UPnP client, Renderer and Server in XBMC and also created music, photo and video shares where are mp3, jpg and m2ts, mts, mpg 1 & 2 and avi files. Opening these locally using XBMC works fine on my Linux PC.
BUT... Sony's TV doesn't show XBMC neither in Photo, nor in Music nor in Video sections when browsing the "Home" menu.
When going to "Network settings" in TV and choosing "Server diagnostic", the XBMC is found from network, but TV says that it cannot be connected successfully.
When opening found media server, TV will give XBMC's information like IP, UDN, MAC and TCP port.
It ALSO gives this error message "Compatible files could not be found".
I have installed fews weeks ago latest XBMC version (precision: version 9.04.1-jaunty1) on one of my PC (the weakest one -notebook- which is 5 years old) under Linux Ubuntu 9.04 (with dual boot Linux / Windows XP SP3).
Under Linux, XBMC is working fine for both local and LAN media files (WD MyBookWorld NAS with Twonky Media Server). XBMC is really a great S/W.
My LAN setup (compact) is as follows:
PC / LINUX / UBUNTU 9.04 / XBMC / FREEBOX (French ISP tripleplay box) with 100 MB router / LAN CAT 5E CABLE / BRAVIA DLNA Client.
So I am stuck...
And even Googling the web, reading and reading XBMC forum, XBMC Wiki, etc... I cannot find the WHY of my issue and thus the solution!
FYI:
I have tested under both my Linux Ubuntu 9.04 & WXP PC and with the same configuration an other DLNA (just) server; i.e. the latest beta version of PS3 Media Server (even if I am not owning a PS3 but an XBOX 1st G), and this server was working right after installation.
It was immediatly recognized by my Bravia for all A/V files (music, photo and video). My Bravia can directly stream from PS3MS (without any transcoding) MPEG-2, AVCHD (lite and full) and HDV, and with transcoding (renderer) to MPEG-2 a lot of other video well known formats.
There are still a lot of issues with this S/W, but at least I got something working.
Now, I would like really to have both in a given S/W; i.e. a DLNA Client awa a DLNA Server and XBMC is supposed to achieve both.
So, HELP and suggestions would be greatly appreciated for trying to fix the problem I am (we are) currently facing to with XBMC.
Many thanks in advance to the helpers.
Cheers.