LG BD300 BD-Live player with Netflix video streaming support - Page 11

Wow, that is crazy. That should be very helpful to the people having this issue. I'm glad I have a Belkin router at the moment - no problems with the LG BD300. My D-Link DIR-625 is unplugged now since it liked to reboot every time Vonage got a call, so I've sworn off of D-Link.

i bought mine the day after christmas, installed it using a netgear wireless printer server connection to my DSL wireless router. no problems downloading the update, and no problem connecting to netflix. what was even better is that i have netflix installed on my xbox360 and the netflix software picked up the movies that are in my que for the xbox. i can watch the movies from either netflix device, Sweet!!

I got the bd300 for X-mas! Woo hoo!

Anyone had tried to play AVCHD discs?

I just picked up a BD300 and for the life of me I can't get it to connect to either Netflix or the software update server.

I tried the suggestion and set a static IP with a known good DNS server other than my router and still no joy. I manually updated with a USB drive to the latest version, but that didn't help. When I try Netflix, it verifies the local network and internet is working, but fails after that.

I also tried to use my Mac as a router using internet sharing and still no joy. I know DNS is working because when I do a packet capture I can see it try to resolve aswnus.lge.com which comes back as 136.166.4.159. I can also see it successfully connecting to that host via port 80. It also queries moviecontrol.netflix.com, but not sure it if is getting the proper reply as I never see any traffic destined for that host after the query.

Not sure what the deal is, but at this point I'm going to stop and watch a movie so I can enjoy my new toy before I get too upset.

Yup. I wrote about my unsuccessful attempt, here. I haven't read a post of anyone having any success.

Well, I have a succesful story to share!

After 4 failures, all the discs were ejected as you said on a previous thread. Independent of been DVD+-R, including single and dual layer, the BD300 recognized them as Blu-Ray discs, then a disc error was displayed and out they went!

Then I burned the AVCHD-v1.iso pattern disc that I got from this forum. This time, BD300 displayed AVCHD disc instead of Blu-Ray as in my first tests. And it played.

Now, since I am using Windows XP, I installed a 2.5 UDF driver in order to look at the file structure on all the discs. The one that the unit recognized as AVCHD disc has a BDMV folder at the root directory with only the following subfolders: BACKUP, CLIPINF, PLAYLIST, STREAM, and two files: index.bdmv and MovieObject.bdmv.

Those identified as Blu-Ray by the unit have an additional folder at the root directory (CERTIFICATE) and additional folders inside BDMV (AUXDATA, BDJO, JAR, and META).

So, I reburned the "Blu-Ray" discs with only the set of folders/files as in the AVCHD-v1.iso. Now they are recognized as a AVCHD, not as Blu-Ray discs, and are playing without any flaws!

So after the movie I tried it again, and it worked this time with the static IP and the hard coded DNS server, so maybe the server was just down when I was trying it before.

Thanks! I hadn't realized that the AVS HD 709 disc had gone to 1.0.

From my Mac, I downloaded the .7z, extracted it to .iso, burned it to DVD-R, and the BD300 played it just fine.

The only problems I ran into were on Resolution Images 5 (Checkerboard Pattern) & 6 (Single Black Pixels). On those images, most of the screen would fill with a nice pattern, but toward the bottom would drop to a much lower resolution. Maybe the BD300 runs out of memory? I haven't seen anything like it on normal content, but I'd say the BD300 can't keep up with images that are this demanding.

Has anyone tired the firmware released today that is supposed to add cinema now and youtube?

I just installed it, too bad cinema now doesn't have any real HD content.

My unit does not find any other updates, same on their web site. Where you found this update?

Same here. I've had Driver H42001, SW BD.8.11.480 for a few weeks.
Home>Setup>Others>SW Update gets me to: "No update is found. The current set is the latest version."

I found some news on this at TWICE: http://www.twice.com/article/CA6625472.html

"LG said it will add the [CinemaNow and YouTube] streaming video services to new LG Network Blu-ray Disc players beginning in the first half of 2009."

Note the word 'new'. The article doesn't promise that BD300s will gain these capabilities.

Youtube has HD now don't they? Probably not 5.1 sound though. That's what Netflix needs.

You're right, the update isn't out yet, assuming the existing player will even get it.

Sorry for the confusion.

I received the LG 300 for Christmas and have been having a blast, until now. This evening I tried to play a DVD from netflix, The Tudors, Season 1 disc 1. Player would not play it. I got some garbled audio and a blank screen. When I put disc into my VERY old Pioneer 525. disc played fine. Is this a known problem with the LG or do I have a problem player? None of the other regular DVDs have caused any problems

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm having problems with this unit. Newest firmware and I get a quick green screen flash and then my audio disappears until I swap the HDMI input on the TV to a different input and back again.

BD player and TiVo go directly to HDMI 1 and HDMI 2, never had this problem with the TiVo thus far.

I think the unit is temporarily losing it's Auth stream or something.. I've tried 2 different BD discs today, however a few days ago I watched The Fifth Element without problem.

After going to LG's page and downloading the previous firmware (425) my audio problems are gone but I'm getting video flicker now and then.

I started out with some video flicker until I reset 1080p Display to 24Hz. That made it go away. Later, I changed Resolution from 1080p to to Auto (the output remained at 1080p24), and the flicker hasn't returned.

I've got the resolution set Auto but the Display is set to 60hz. I'll try at 24hz.

Oddly enough though, when I changed HDMI inputs from what it was primarily on to another one I was flicker free for the rest of the movie. So I'm wondering if it's a problem with an HDMI port on my TV.

Ok, updated to 480 firmware again, set the Display to 24hz and so far no flicker on Kung-Fu Panda.. it was precariously bad here with Audio Cut outs on HDMI2 before. It's now back on HDMI2 with no issues thus far. Just 5 minutes into the movie however. Quite an oddity.

*Edit: Watched all of KFP, not a single problem. Suh-weet.

I just got this unit and updated the sw to the 480 using a USB stick. I then tried to update the loader version with the same method but when I insert the USB stick nothing happens. There are no instructions with the loader update. Can this be done with the USB stick or is it only with CD or Network connection?

Loader goes the same way. I had no problems doing it via USB.

I just copied the file to the root of a USB stick and turned the BD300 on with it plugged in. Worked like a charm.

CNET Crave as well as some other sites claim the BD 300 can stream MP3 audio from your PC. I downloaded the BD300 manual from LG and I don't see that capability anywhere. It seems to be limited to playing MP3s from a thumb drive or a disc you burn them onto. Does anyone know if these really stream MP3 from a PC on your LAN?

I tried several ways of mangling the links to the sources mentioned above to post in this msg, but I'm new, and the forum says I cannot post with links until I've made 3 posts.

Getting video glitches and audio cutoff again tonight with a DVD instead of a BD player.

So I've had this unit for a couple weeks now.

Originally it was working great. Since Wednesday, I've been having all sorts of issues. I'm trying to figure out if its the netflix service or the bd300. Basically it claims it "cannot connect to netflix", and to "check the connection". When I jump out to the setup screen and click the "check for update", it has no issues, indicating to me its not the internet connection. I also tried hooking up a laptop to the network wire connected to the LG, and I was getting speedtest.net DL speeds of 2.5 MB/s. BTW, I am using a ethernet over powerline adapter (10 MB) (which I've used previouly with a 360 and a Slingbox) and have the 15 down FIOS servie. After spending hours on new years eve debugging this issue I gave up.

I've since upgraded the ethernet over powerline adapter to a 200MB/s version, and I'm getting the similar results. It's just flakey, sometimes it works perfect, other times "cannot connect to netflix", and other times it plays but that renegotiates the network speed and ends up hanging.

Is this the netflix service, my network connection, or the bd300? Any ideas?

Since you have a laptop, you could try using the Netflix player on your computer at the same time to see if that works. If it does, then that narrows down the problem.

I was having a problem connecting to Netflix over my FiOS connection. In the end I did the static IP with the hardcoded DNS server as suggested in the last post of the previous page.

Has anyone had this problem with their LG BD-300? Standard DVD playback whether they be original or home brewed. The Audio Cuts Out:mad:
BDs play fine without any issues. Here is my setup.

Pioneer Elite Pro 940HD
Yamaha YSP-1100 Digital Sound Projector

The digital out on the BD-300 are set to Pass-Thru. (Optical to YSP-1100)
I've tried all other setting with no resolve.
The HDMI audio is set to Stereo and no audio issues coming from the TV.