So Sony told the engineers to disable the function. The player obviously already has the codecs to view these formats because they are on the disk. It would promote "piracy" (even though if you look at the numbers the most often downloaded movies tend to be the most successful). Sony wanted to inhibit the use of DLNA because their lawyers told them it was a bad idea. I have beaten them up severely about their limited support. That info I posted is from the esupport folks at Sony. If anyone has evidence or data that disagrees with my data, please speak up so we can discuss and get to the bottom of this mystery.Ĭool thanks wewilli1. The body of evidence I collected on this issue suggests that the marketing literature is correct and the S390 is capable of decoding an mkv file. I streamed mkv files to the S390 using the PS3 media server and it's my opinion that it was not transcoding. Lastly, I am getting pretty good with the PS3 Media Server. Same thing with Nero, I disabled ALL transcoding and streamed mkv just fine. Furthermore, I specifically disabled transcoding with Serviio and streamed mkv files with no problem. It's my understanding that this version of Twonky is not capable of transcoding. I am running Twonky Special version 7.0.7 for Windows. Obviously, both statements can not be correct. However, the owner's manual has a note that states that the S390 is not capable of playing mkv via DLNA. The marketing literature at the following link states that the S390 is compatible with mkv via DLNA: I did a lot of research on this and it turns out that there is conflicting information. I generally agree with what you are saying about the fact that the S390 might not be compatible with mkv. I hope we can get to the bottom of this together and help continue the development of the great product that Mezzmo is! I've also confirmed this same behaviour for some MKV files that play via Serviio, but not Mezzmo with transcoding switched off in both products. I love the Mezzmo interface which is certainly superior to Serviio, but my slower computer and lack of disk space means I really do not want to have to transcode when other DLNA servers deliver the files without transcoding. The sony player shows them as M4A files containing AAC audio and plays them complete with tags etc over DLNA. I've just discovered that Serviio plays these same M4A audio files to the Sony players with serviio transcoding disabled and no problems at all. If I switch transcoding off in Mezzmo then the Sony players report the file as corrupt/not available. However, you lose the tags and the fast forward/rewind is not great. One example is my M4A audio files that contain AAC 2 channel audio.įor years I believed that the Sony players could not handle this format via DLNA and Mezzmo has had to transcode for me to listen. ![]() I've posted a few threads about the mezzmo support of the Sony BDP Players. I will provide more detailed information about my comparison criteria and why Twonky won the competition on request. Out of the these packages, Twonky was the overall winner and I purchased it today. The only packages which were fully compatible with the S390 were Nero, Twonky, Serviio, Windows Media Player, and the PS3 Media Server. I tested TVersity, Twonky, Mezzmo, Nero, Serviio, Wild Media Server, Play On, Plex, and the PS3 Media Server. I tested several DLNA servers in parallel with the Mezzmo server over a 3 week period. I purchased the Twonky server today because it is 100% compatible with the Sony BDP-S390 and proved to be the best software for my situation. When I use the new profile with transcoding enabled or disabled, the S390 says there is no playable media when I navigate to a directory with mkv files encoded with the h264 codec. Unfortunately, the new profile did not help. Thanks for providing the updated profile and trying to help me - I do appreciate it.
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