Sound offset in DLNA on Sony Bravia (old)

[hgewald 8]

Hello,

 

several of the movies I play on my old Sony Bravia via DLNA develop a sound offset during playback.

Not all of them, but a considerable number.

 

I mean that picture and sound divert and it is getting worse the longer the movie plays.

 

Any thought why this happens?

 

The files are intact, if I play them on the new Samsung (not using DLNA) they work fine.

 

Thanks

H.

[Luke 38831]

Not sure, is this with the tv speakers?

[hgewald 8]

Yes it is just the normal TV.

 

The video and the audio sequence are getting out of sync.

Hwich is very annoying as it is impossible to watch the movie if the voice lags behind a couple of seconds...

[Luke 38831]

I wonder if the bitrate is too high and the tv just can't keep up with the data.

[hgewald 8]

how can I check the bitrate?

Interestingly: if I watch a whole series, some episodes have this problem and some do not.

Weird...

[Luke 38831]

did all of the episode files come from the same place? The bitrate is displayed in the media info in the web app detail screen.

[hgewald 8]

I checked.

All the same source.

Bitrate: 192 kbps.

As all episodes are 192 kbps this cannot be the source of the problem, right?

[Luke 38831]

Right, probably not. I'm not quite sure what it might be at the moment.

[hgewald 8]

Anything I can do to help locating the problem?

It is actually really annoying as we use this functionality on the Sony a lot

 

Thanks

H.

[Luke 38831]

Is it direct playing or transcoding?

[hgewald 8]

I can check - where do I find this information?

[Luke 38831]

Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. thanks !

[Luke 38831]

Shouldn't this file just direct play?

[hgewald 8]

What do you mean, I do not understand the question.

 

Do I need to configure the DLNA in a specific way?

[Luke 38831]

I'm just wondering if the TV should support that file natively without any conversion.

[hgewald 8]

I must admit I lack the technical abilities to answer that question

 

All I do is to switch to DLNA and chose the emby server.

Then everything runs smoothely even on the old Sony Bravia.

This is actually the reason why I switched from PLEX to emby as PLEX does not support the old models anymore and I am not willing to throw away a prefectly functional TV.

 

However, since the big update I have the sound offset rpoblem with many files I want to watch.

[Luke 38831]

Does the manual list the supported media formats?

[hgewald 8]

no, unfortunatley not (probably too lold)

 

But it plays most other parts of the series without problems. in this case 2 out fo 15 epsiodes have the offset problem. The others run fine..

[Luke 38831]

Ok unfortunately I don't know what the answer is and it will be difficult for me to determine without having one of these models for testing. The reason I was asking if it should direct play is because if the TV can direct play it, then this could potentially resolve it.

[hgewald 8]

How can I find out if the TV supports direct play?

[Luke 38831]

Check the supported media formats of the TV and compare that to the video file.