Samsung forum: DLNA Formats Supported

Sorry but I regret to say that it is not true.

For mp4 for example, it appears that even if you use AAC, sound sometimes is not supported.

The problem, is that when samsung say AAC LC this is not clear.

Many others parameters need to be check : rate ? frequency ?

As many users, we are not able to clarify the situation about this point.

We cannot etablish what can be read and what cannot be read.

I clarification on this point will be very appreciated.

Yes, the TV has codecs too - in reality all the TV is is a computer with some specialized hardware attached.

Moreover, the standard the TV implements - the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) standard specifies a very limited set of what a DLNA device is expected to render (what they call "profiles") - anything outside of that set is not guaranteed to be supported.

Unfortunately, it appears Samsung designed the TV to ONLY support the profiles the DLNA called out, and to NOT support anything else (rather than supporting the DLNA required standards PLUS making a "best effort" to support anything outside the DLNA standard).

BenjaiminNYC,

This is likely because the decoder, resolution and codec don't all match up. Because you have a wide variety of ways that mp4 files can be recorded, the settings may not all match up. All three parameteres have to be met for it to work. (anything extra is bonus, but for the time being, that's what we know will work).

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Hi jfm- did you hve nay luck finding an answer? Im choosing between the 630 (matte screen) and possibly the 750 (DLNA video supported) but if I cant play off my macbook then I may just stick with the 630 to avoid the glossy reflections.

Please let us know if you find a good solution.

Thanks!

I presume the reason behind many issues mentioned here and in other threads is quite well explained in http://gxben.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/why-do-i-hate-dlna-protocol-so-much/. DLNA purposely doesn't support free formats for DRM reasons. If Samsung want to enhance the user experience, they should support UPnP (on which DLNA is based while reducing it's scope).

If the same file plays perfectly on USB but not on the network(DLNA), it's most probably easy to enable it on the network. The rest is probably a question of politics.

I suppose another solution is to get a NAS with USB connection. It's a pity but that seems the only exit for now.

I am using a UE46B7020.

Patrick

Hi Paul,

What I can say is that on an ethernet connection, my TV seems to refuse all formats. On a USB, it seems to accept all of them. On a wireless connection, which would be done through a USB adapter, I don't know.

This is an interesting question as it might be a second alternative to the ethernet connection. The first being the NAS with USB, the second here being a NAS and some wi-fi (e.g. router).

Even if I highly prefer a wired solution, could anyone confirm?

Patrick

Hi
I concurr that all three need to be the same as the specified formats for MP4 / AAC / 1920x1080 over DLNA. But that means upscaling everything via, conversion, including podcasts. IS there no 'best effort' switch that can be thrown to display the content for MP4 in any other scaling?.

That said the movies, and video files that are MP4 play perfectly via DLNA from FUPPES on a DROBOSHARE after you scale to 1920x1080.

Hope that helps some lost people.

My workflow for conversion has been Create VOBs > TMPGENC (profile MP4/AAC/1920x1080) > re-encode. Works on iphone streaming via plugplayer and plays on TV.

Sure there have been updates. This post is almost 3 years old.

What model do you have? I'll be happy to post a chart from the manual to help.

I get 20 requests for upgrades a month, and I know we don't crank them out unless the issue is significant. Updating codecs and containers, however, is not usually done. Most people don't like the straight answer, but we've never updated TVs to include more codecs and containers than what is listed in the manual.

There are a few forum topics on this, and someone mentioned that turning your container's name to AVI sometimes does the trick without converting it. I don't know if this holds water, so if you can safely try, maybe that's worth looking into.

Post back with your model number, though, and let's see what we can do.

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HD Tech - Model is UE40D5520RKXXU, as noted below, I have got it working however the choice now is to either re-encode to AVI (which doesn't work so well for iPad or space economy), or stream via a media server that transcodes on-the-fly (or buy a media player). All options I had wanted to avoid, the most ideal option would be more flexibility in the TV's ability to handle m4v or mkv containers... even if as a start it just supports standard 4:3 and widescreen resolutions common to that from DVD's. Any tips on a firmware upgrade I could be lacking, or a trick I need to know gratefully received.

Andy - I eventually got it to stream directly from the NAS by encoding to the exacting standards required (requiring TMPGEnc 5, Handbrake doesn't provide the flexibility necessary) and noted on the photobucket link provided by HD Tech earlier. Downside is it increases the file size by around 3x++ (and seems to take forever to encode), so, pending some change in what Samsung is able handle, I'll not re-encode and take your suggestion to use a media server via my PC when I do want to watch a video on the TV vs. iPad.

Thanks both for the help and quick responses.

HD-Tech,

Thanks - definitely an expansion which helps for when I'm encoding 1920x1080 source video. For legacy DVD however the 800x600 AVI option is still best (I know it works, even though it's not on the updated chart). Reason for this is my encoder doesn't scale-up the smaller image, so I end up with a whole lot of high-resolution black boarder around a tiny image in the centre of the screen when ripping to 1920x1080. Same issue with the AVI file, but its a much smaller boarder and the TV scales-up the image to fit the screen, so it's palatable.

Could be I just don't know how to use my encoder properly. I've tried Handbrake, TMPGEnc, and AVS4YOU. AVS4YOU delivered appalling results, Handbrake won't rip at a higher resolution then the source, and TMPGEnc will rip, but it doesn't scale-up, only adding some space hungry high-resolution black boarder around the edges.

MKV is usually the container I use, but to your point Apple doesn't like it (you can play it with a third party app, but if it's a 1080p source, it can't decode on the fly fast enough and you get a jittery video), hence my dogged perseverance to find a m4v solution.

If I could just find a decoder that would do a decent job of scaling-up a lower resolution video file to fit fully into a 1920x1080 frame, and rip to m4v, we'd be golden!

Many thanks, Ben.

old thread, but I'm in this boat. looking at buying LN40D630. I have many AVI files I plan to pump from pc to tv. is the DLNA still a problem? If so, then why has noone mentioned using HDMI? I see usb has been mentioned, uh, but I'm running this signal 50' and hdmi would work, afterall, the TV can still me used as a monitor. Please clear this up for me...the HDMI will work, correct?