Samsung forum: PN50B650 DLNA no fast forward / rewind?

Just to get a response from a Samsung rep so fast is amazing. Thanks and I hope your corporation always keeps that up.

I might have a solution in the works for FF/RWD, different media center software I'm told can support this so I will give that a try.

I understand I certainly don't support the Samsung corporation with my purchases but my point was you have some very compelling products and so close to being perfect enough where someone who (thinks) they know their technology (me) can have everything they wanted from one vendor. I'd like to take advantage of Anynet+ and having 1 remote instead of getting into a separate receiver, console ect and needing a programmable remote.

Either way, for the price of the tv there's a ton of features and I'm still happy with it. It's still the best on the market.

If network streaming is a problem due to bandwidth or other issues, may I suggest leaving out realtime seek streaming and only doing seek by time. I don't think anyone would mind if that (easier to implement) method was used. Or even jumping every 5 minutes back and forward with each button press so it's not impossible to resume where you were or see a favorite part.

Thanks for the prompt reply and your candid response, Samsung will keep my patronage and the spreading of the good word on the product and support to share with my colleagues.

As strange as it might sound... FF/RWD is now working while streaming videos using DLNA (w/ShareManager). I don't know what enabled it.. but I did have some files that were corrupted the last time I formatted my PC (the last 10 minutes of the videos were erased and VLC player said they were corrupted and tried to fix them). There is no USB drive plugged into the tv.

I think all of those files are the ones that I can't FF/RWD.. all recent videos (post-format) I can. The only other thing I did was try Tversity and Playon. I've uninstalled both apps and I can still FF/RWD using ShareManager.
I'm on the 1008 firmware. I'd be happy to record a video of this if needed.. but it's real and works very well over 100mbit ethernet.

I'm going to try to find out what the issue is, but I think it's only my old (corrupted) files that were never FF'ing. I'm guessing it was always working and had nothing to do with trying Tversity/Playon.

My exact setup is ShareManager 2.1 on an old Core2Quad 9450@3ghz w/8GB ram on Windows 7 RC. Using a standard 100mbit cat5e with a Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 using Tomato firmware. Not sure what's going on here but I'm very pleased.

If you have a release date for the HT-BD8200 please let me know. Originally it was July. I'm currently signed up to Crutchfield's email notification when it's in stock but I'm eager to get ahold on one of those.

I've tested a bunch of DLNA servers (EyeConnect etc.) on Mac for the Samsung UE46B7070 TV. They were all unable to handle PAUSE/FF/RWD. Finally I found one that works, TwonkyMedia. Some issues with RWD but PAUSE/FF works like a charm.

I work for Conceiva and we are the authors of another DLNA server - Mezzmo. We are actually working on making FF/REW/Pause available for Samsung TVs when using Mezzmo, so you may want to try it as well, if you're interested. Mezzmo also allows you to transcode your files to make them compatible with the TV.

Thanks! I don't know whether there'll be a Mac version any time soon, but it's possible to run Windows on a Mac: http://www.apple.com/macosx/compatibility/ and then run Mezzmo in there (although we haven't tried that here yet).

Hello,

Thanks for trying Mezzmo!

We have a new update coming out shortly and that includes some server-side enhancements that may enable FF/RWD on more file types. The version that'll have that will be 2.1.3.

Also, please feel free to contact our support (support <at> conceiva <dot> com) and we'll look after you (even if you haven't purchased Mezzmo).

Dennis

FFW and RWD can be implemented on either the client or the serverside if my DLNA understanding is correct. It looks like at least someone at Samsung is looking into options, but it's frustrating that they haven't improved the situation for existing customers. I guess they figure once you paid they have your money and perhaps they only care to fix the next gen of TV's so you will be enticed to buy another ...

Here's an interesting article
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/articleSale/Sarticle.jsp?arnumber=5202611