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Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served material?

PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2011 4:49 pm
by n3mmr
Is there some sort of general consensus as to which bluray player is best at playing DLNA served video and audio?

I didn't buy my BDP S370 for DLNA use, but if I'm to invest in a new one and give the S370 to my son, which BLuRay player would be the best choice from a DLNA compatibility standpoint?

Re: Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served mater

PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2011 5:12 pm
by zip

Re: Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served mater

PostPosted: Wed May 04, 2011 5:42 pm
by Cerberus
n3mmr wrote:Is there some sort of general consensus as to which bluray player is best at playing DLNA served video and audio?

I didn't buy my BDP S370 for DLNA use, but if I'm to invest in a new one and give the S370 to my son, which BLuRay player would be the best choice from a DLNA compatibility standpoint?


in my opinion it would be the samsung C5900 BDP :)

Re: Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served mater

PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2011 7:58 am
by n3mmr
Cerberus wrote:
n3mmr wrote:Is there some sort of general consensus as to which bluray player is best at playing DLNA served video and audio?

I didn't buy my BDP S370 for DLNA use, but if I'm to invest in a new one and give the S370 to my son, which BLuRay player would be the best choice from a DLNA compatibility standpoint?


in my opinion it would be the samsung C5900 BDP :)


Have you had direct experience with it???

Re: Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served mater

PostPosted: Thu May 05, 2011 5:22 pm
by Cerberus
n3mmr wrote:
Cerberus wrote:
n3mmr wrote:Is there some sort of general consensus as to which bluray player is best at playing DLNA served video and audio?

I didn't buy my BDP S370 for DLNA use, but if I'm to invest in a new one and give the S370 to my son, which BLuRay player would be the best choice from a DLNA compatibility standpoint?


in my opinion it would be the samsung C5900 BDP :)


Have you had direct experience with it???


yep thats why its in my signiture ;)

Re: Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served mater

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2011 9:45 am
by pizzaguy541
Cerberus wrote:yep thats why its in my signiture ;)
Cerberus, while playing a file through the network, what kind of info does the Samsung provide when you press the info button? The Sony will display the bitrate and audio encoding among other things.

Re: Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served mater

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2011 10:46 am
by Cerberus
i will try for you today cause tbh i dont have meta info turned on so i dont know off top of my head all i see atm is:

Name:
Size:
Play Time:
Date:
Path:

once meta is on will let you know what else im given :)

Re: Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served mater

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2011 12:47 pm
by pizzaguy541
Okay, cool.

I'm looking to buy one and was hoping that it would provide the same type of info as the Sony.

Re: Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served mater

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2011 1:22 pm
by Cerberus
pizzaguy541 wrote:Okay, cool.

I'm looking to buy one and was hoping that it would provide the same type of info as the Sony.


yer it more than likely does but i have that turned off in serviio, i have turned metadata back on for you and once its done with my library i will see what other information it give me and post back

Re: Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served mater

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2011 1:39 pm
by zip
If it's anything like the Samsung TVs then you're out of luck and only the information provided by Cerberus is shown (ie no codec info or other technical metadata, let alone any descriptive metadata other than title)

Re: Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served mater

PostPosted: Mon May 09, 2011 10:35 am
by pizzaguy541
On my Sony, when I press the display button while watching a video it shows me a timebar, total video length, the video bitrate, the type of audio ( Dolby, MP2, MP3) with sampling rate and it's bitrate.

I would have thought that the Samsung could display similar info. BTW, this is for any video being watched regardless if it's from a disc, USB, or over DLNA.

I thought that I would elaborate a little more in case we were talking about two different things.

Re: Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served mater

PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 8:50 pm
by jasonderricko
Cerberus,
I have a PN59D6500 that works excellenty for everythig except streaming mpg recorded from mythtv. It will play them, but it will not allow ffwd or time search. I have read some other posts that seem to indicate that this issue isn't present in all samsung devices. I would like to stay with samsung for blu ray mainly because my remote would be compatible already. Do you know if the c5900 model will ffwd mpg files?

Re: Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served mater

PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:17 pm
by Cerberus
ffwd should work on all samsung BDP but you have to use the < and > directional keys not the << and >> buttons

Re: Which bluray player is best at playing DLNA-served mater

PostPosted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:30 pm
by zip
but also depends on the file type