mclaren99uk 1 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 (edited) Hi I have just recently upgraded to the new official release of MediaBrowser. Up to this point I have had no issues with quality. Since the upgrade, I am getting poor quality images on my TV when streamed from mediabrowser. The TV is hardwired and the transcoding is set to best quality, but I not have a blocky screen. TV is a Samsung TV-37C6500 Can some guide me to where I can increase the quality of the stream. Edited August 17, 2014 by mclaren99uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6776 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 I don't use DLNA on my Samsung TV (I use the Samsung Smart TV MB3 app), but I have my transcoding set to MAX (there is no BEST setting) and I don't have any issues transcoding to either my Roku or Chromecast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclaren99uk 1 Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 Hi Clearly tho this does not resolve the issue. The fault was not there prior to the new release. it is like the stream bandwidth has been dropped as its all blocky and unwatchable. However I have made no setting changes. I noticed that my ipad does not have the same problem. That streams ok. There is no fault with my networking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyBak 11 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Yep seeing the same problem here on my Sony TV, DLNA play to is no blocky and unable to browse directly from the TV. Again only since last update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37135 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 This will be resolved very soon. Apologies. It slipped past the beta group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostm 74 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 (edited) Hmm strange i have a samsung f6400 and using the latest dev the image for me is perfect using play to or the server. Tested some mkv's and they all played fine. What kind of file types are you using? Edited August 18, 2014 by Ghostm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximumentropy 23 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 I am using the Mediabrowser web client to play to my Samsung UN32ES6500FXZA ("DLNA Play To"). Everything worked fine until the upgrade to Version 3.0.5340.21263. Many videos started giving me an error (on the TV) "The file you've selected is not currently supported". By trial and error I found that if I override the "Samsung Smart TV" profile by removing the AAC codec in DLNA>Profiles>Direct Play>Container: mp4>Audio codecs, then I can play these videos again. I expect that I will also have to remove the AAC codec from other container types where it appears. I hope this helps others with this TV, or the mediabrowser developers, in some way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37135 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 hmm. aac should be fine. perhaps some other characteristics of that aac track are in play here? can you post the media info from the web client? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37135 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 i think the issue might be the DirecTv thing. The fact that you saved the custom profile means it will be evaluated ahead of the system ones. i bet if you were to save the custom profile identically to the system one, it would still work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyBak 11 Posted August 18, 2014 Share Posted August 18, 2014 Again same for me, MP4 files not working on a particular TV but fine when playing through MPC on HTPC or iPad web client. Luke is this setting related (i.e. something we can address with a workaround) or will we need to wait for a revised release? Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclaren99uk 1 Posted August 19, 2014 Author Share Posted August 19, 2014 I many use MP4's but its just the TV that has the problem. Other devices I have appear to be ok. Just looks likes its streaming in low quality, so the blocks appear. The settings are set for the highest quality and it still does it. Its not the source files that are generating the problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maximumentropy 23 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 i think the issue might be the DirecTv thing. The fact that you saved the custom profile means it will be evaluated ahead of the system ones. i bet if you were to save the custom profile identically to the system one, it would still work. Yes, that worked! Thanks for the tip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37135 Posted August 19, 2014 Share Posted August 19, 2014 thanks for confirming. with the next server release this won't be necessary anymore, but at least there's a workaround for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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