Oppo BDP-83/93/95/103/105 DLNA/UPnP thread - Page 13

Originally Posted by benj416

Hi there. Looking for some help from the more knowledgeable. I have my oppo 83 bridged to my home wireless network. The problem is when I go to the "My Network" page and click on "My Network Search", nothing is found. I have access to blu tv and online content with blu ray movies so the wireless bridge is connecting to my network. I'd like to stream music from my XP based computer to the oppo to play in the other room, but my network just isn't showing up under "My Network". Also, in WMP 11...please don't laugh...when I check the "share media to" box, it doesn't list any devices to share to. I presume that the oppo should be listed there. Any ideas?

Originally Posted by benj416

Hi there. Looking for some help from the more knowledgeable. I have my oppo 83 bridged to my home wireless network. The problem is when I go to the "My Network" page and click on "My Network Search", nothing is found. I have access to blu tv and online content with blu ray movies so the wireless bridge is connecting to my network. I'd like to stream music from my XP based computer to the oppo to play in the other room, but my network just isn't showing up under "My Network". Also, in WMP 11...please don't laugh...when I check the "share media to" box, it doesn't list any devices to share to. I presume that the oppo should be listed there. Any ideas?

Originally Posted by rdgrimes

The Oppo will only show what DNLA servers are active, so if it shows nothing then no server is active. That points to your WMP as the problem. Can't help you with that. Maybe just skip to the chase and try one of the free DNLA servers?

Originally Posted by benj416

Hey thanks for the tips folks. WMP has driven me mad in the past, and is destined to continue to do so. Before I try another program, I'll try and get WMP working...failing that, any recommendations for a free server that works best (in your opinion(s)) for streaming music? Most of my music files are either mp3, aac, or wav.
Also, to be clear, when I select "My Network Search" on the OPPO, it's searching for services on my computer (like WMP) that are "broadcasting" to my wireless network as opposed to searching for my actual network (SSID). Is this correct?
Thanks again.

Originally Posted by DisneySpirit

I finally got Mediatomb runing on my WD MyBookWorld NAS but when I play an mp3 on my BDP83 from the menus/list of mp3 files under Network/MediaTomb/PC Folder it plays that one song and stops instead of going on to the next mp3 file. Anyone else running MediaTomb having this issue?

Originally Posted by rakuen.now

I tried using the Oppo DLNA successfully using foobar decoding .flac to PCM and streaming from a Netgear ReadyNAS. I haven't tried video yet, as I couldn't find a codec that worked. The problem for me right now is that -- and I've sent Oppo a lengthy email awhile back explaining this -- Oppo's interface is damn near impossible to work with.

For one, I have a projector that I rather not turn on every time I listen to music. Secondly, the advantage of computer software is the ease of control -- namely the mouse and keyboard -- in scrolling through large amounts of files. Unfortunately, the average A/V remote control lacks such a wheel, and going through hundreds of artists is a tedious process.

What Oppo needs to do is to enable media rendering functionality in order for an external media controller such as foobar or JRivers to recognize. This would, of course, also allow an iPhone plugin to work, and nearly transform the Oppo from a blu-ray player with peripheral functions into a networking giant!

And it shouldn't be that hard to implement as well... this is all a part of DLNA specification, unlike .flac file support, for example.

Anyways, Oppo said they'd look into it, but I'm not getting my hopes up. The SE upgrade would be 10 times as useful if this were done correctly.

Originally Posted by Tokyo_Joe

With just a couple of days of my free Asset UPnP trial run remaining I'd just like to check if anyone ever got either the Files/Folders browsing option or Internet Radio to work properly (in Linux using Wine).

Browsing by Artist, Folder or Playlist works just fine, but whenever I've tried the folder browsing option in the past none of my music plays and then all the other browsing options stop working to I have to go and reset Asset for anything to work at all. Very annoying - especially as a lot of my music isn't tagged and my actual folders are all arranged so neatly.

And then Internet Radio just doesn't work. I can display the stations on the Oppo but they don't play. I've had Internet radio working before in Twonky (I think).

Originally Posted by Tokyo_Joe

With just a couple of days of my free Asset UPnP trial run remaining I'd just like to check if anyone ever got either the Files/Folders browsing option or Internet Radio to work properly (in Linux using Wine).

Browsing by Artist, Folder or Playlist works just fine, but whenever I've tried the folder browsing option in the past none of my music plays and then all the other browsing options stop working to I have to go and reset Asset for anything to work at all. Very annoying - especially as a lot of my music isn't tagged and my actual folders are all arranged so neatly.

And then Internet Radio just doesn't work. I can display the stations on the Oppo but they don't play. I've had Internet radio working before in Twonky (I think).

Originally Posted by Emil Faber

Mediatomb 0.12.0 & Ubuntu 9.10 working fine for mp3 here. I do experience this problem with flac files transcoded to pcm. Is your NAS transcoding mp3 files?

Cheers,

joe

Originally Posted by nathan_h

Has anyone had experience with Twonky support? I bought the media server after playing the demo for a week, but since installing the actual licensed version I haven't got it working right. Scans the media folder but then says there is no media. Support has responded with a few questions over the past week, but without a solution. I'm wondering whether there is a method other than their email tool?

Originally Posted by wmcclain

Most of the action seems to be on their forums, linked from their main page.

-Bill

Originally Posted by DisneySpirit

I installed a pre-compiled and preconfigured Mediatomb 0.10.0 for the Mybookworld NAS runing on BASH via PuTTY from my Windows 7 64-bit system. Sorry I'm linux illiterate. Looking at the config file I don't see any transcoding. On my computer, I have Asset UPnP, Nero Mediahome 4, and the PS3 Media Server all working fine with my Oppo 83 via a NetGear WNHDEB111100 5GHz Wireless-N HD Gaming/Bridge Networking Kit. The Mediatomb Web UI also works fine and I can brouse the files and folders correctly on Mediatomb's menu on the Oppo. It just won't continue to play the next song. One thing I've noticed on the Oppo is that the mp3 song's elapsed time counter is counting up correctly but the number to the right of it seems to be the sum total of all my NAS's shared files time 86:26:13?

Originally Posted by timkeeler

Experiencing the same two issues using J. River Media Center (JRMC) and haven't found a fix yet. Playback settings set to gapless playback but the tracks just freeze at the end and don't advance.

Originally Posted by timkeeler

Experiencing the same two issues using J. River Media Center (JRMC) and haven't found a fix yet. Playback settings set to gapless playback but the tracks just freeze at the end and don't advance. Only tested on Flac files, not MP3. Also getting a strange large number for what should be total track time, although not remotely close to the total # of hours of Flac files that I have. But it could potentially be the total number of hours associated with all of my MP3 files... Not having either of these issues when using Asset but other problems with Asset are worse so I am currently still favoring JRMC.

Originally Posted by amert20

I was wondering whether anybody has an issue with BDP-83 after streaming files through DLNA server. I use TVersity to play files from my NAS box. After I watch the movie through network, if I put a disk on the tray, BDP-83 does not recognize and does not play it unless I turned the machine off and on again...

Anybody has similar experience.....

Originally Posted by rdgrimes

Normally you would return to the Home screen after backing out of the Network screens. Once there, you might need to select "Movie" to start playback of a disc.

Originally Posted by dizziness

Post your questions and comments here and hopefully someone will have the answer.

Originally Posted by frank_t

I've had limited success transcoding M4A (and WAV) to play on the Oppo.

MediaTomb --> transcoding works using VLC, but play back is in half-speed. no idea why.

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Originally Posted by Emil Faber

Have you tried ffmpeg instead of VLC?

Cheers,

Joe

Originally Posted by mezzmo

Hi,

Great overview of media servers, but there's one more that works well with Oppo and supports transcoding from/to any media format. It's called Mezzmo (disclaimer: I work for Conceiva, the makers of Mezzmo). It would be great if you could add it to your review of media servers and I'd be more than happy to provide any necessary information.

Thanks,

Dennis