Samsung AllShare and Internet@TV Discussion - Page 17

I think you'll find the "it just works" nature of Mezzmo worth the price of admission. The Samsung software is really lacking IMHO.

good luck!

Last I saw on their forum they found out the problem with the restriction permissions and were hoping to have them in the update due this week. Playlists additions probably only in future update.

You guys keep up all this positive feedback about Mezzmo an I may have to try it!

I just finished moving my Media PC up to where the TV is and bought a Media Center Remote too!!!

When you have extra time just give the trial a workout. I'll give you a hint as well. The trial appears to be valid for 15 days of full-option use with nothing being gimped. After the 15 days is over, you'll have the option to extend the trial for another 15 days. So you can actually get 30 days of full use out of it. Don't tell anybody though, it will be our AVSForum "secret".

I hope everyone who ventures into this thread has a very happy holiday season.

Here is the complete list of updates for those interested:

http://forum.conceiva.com/showthread...=4609#post4609

Samsung Specific Updates:

-Improved: MPEG-2 format support and MKV format support for Samsung BDP Blu-ray players.
-Improved: MPEG-2 format support and MP4 format support for Samsung A series TVs.
-Improved: MPEG-2 format support, MPEG-TS format support, AVI format support, and MP4 format support for Samsung B series TVs.
-Improved: MPEG-2 format support, MP4 format support, MPEG-TS format support, AVI format support and MKV format support for Samsung C series TVs.
-Improved: MPEG-2 format support and MKV format support for Samsung Home Theater Systems.

Here is BritInVa's personal request:
-Fixed: Playlist permissions are not applied properly.

Enjoy!

Is there some advantage you get from All-Share or Mezzmo compared to the Windows Media Server built-in to WMP 11 when it comes to accessing PC music files through a Samsung Blu-Ray player or TV?

I follow this thread and I still have some lingering misc questions about All-share with Win-7 and also with Mezzmo. I'm generally happy and satisfied streaming even 1080p from my PC to Samsung BRp (or Samsung TV) using Win-7 through a cat5 connection.

1) Of those of you who've experienced occasional lip sync issues, the kind that sometimes comes and goes while watching through Win-7, has that issue gone away when you switch to Mezzmo? Have you noticed any difference?

2) Are there any circumstances when you turn transcoding ON with Mezzmo? When?

3) For those, like me, still using Win 7 to serve, have you found any good tweaks or tips to improve allshare? Have you found anything that lets the Samsung play .mkv files without changing the name to .avi

4) When I change the file name from .mkv to .avi, does that affect the quality of the video? does it remove any trickplay or other features?

Thanks and happy holidays to all of you!

Well Christmas is finally here so the boxes are open and I can now try this stuff first hand... so far not much luck. My files are on a DNS-321 which has a built-in UPnP AV server. I'm not using Allshare or Mezzmo but the BDC5500 can see the files fine. The BDC5500 firmware is at the latest revision. It can't play the AVI files (unsupported file format). I ran MediaInfo and its output is pasted below... Unfortunately, this is still greek to me... As far as I can tell the AVI parameters are within the specs listed in the manual. Can anyone here help me make sense of this?

General
Complete name : Z:\\Home Movies\\2005-06-27 to 2005-07-17 #01.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format_Commercial_IfAny : DVCPRO
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 12.0 GiB
Duration : 59mn 43s
Overall bit rate : 28.9 Mbps
Recorded date : 2005-07-17 18:25:54

Video
ID : 0
Format : DV
Format_Commercial_IfAny : DVCPRO
Duration : 59mn 43s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 24.4 Mbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Chroma subsampling : 4:1:1
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 2.357
Stream size : 12.0 GiB (100%)
Encoding settings : wb mode= / white balance= / fcm=auto focus

Audio #1
ID : 0-0
Format : PCM
Muxing mode : DV
Muxing mode, more info : Muxed in Video #1
Duration : 59mn 43s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 768 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz
Bit depth : 12 bits
Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)

Audio #2
ID : 0-1
Format : PCM
Muxing mode : DV
Muxing mode, more info : Muxed in Video #1
Duration : 59mn 43s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 768 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz
Bit depth : 12 bits
Stream size : 0.00 Byte (0%)

My brother just bought a BD-C6300T for my mother. Fancy looking, but seriously this thing is a joke. Why would you need to install Samsung's Allshare just to browse files on a computer? It needs the ability to browse network file share folders. On top if this I found out it only plays two of my 150 plus movies on my NAS.

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade but I think it's a piece of junk. Forgive me, I have a Dune Player which plays anything I throw at it, it's much simpler, easier to browse etc. I don't like this Samsung player aside from the fact that it looks nice.

On the bright side Twonky Media Server works with it.

Dan

Brit - what do you use to recode your files?

I agree abillionity percent, the whole DLNA thing is such a hassle. XBMC on my xbox did is much better back in the day, if only it was fast enough to play high def. I've heard LG players can browse regular (winxp/smb) shares just fine (but haven't tried myself).

thank you for all of the info in here.

I recently purchased a Samsung BD-C6500 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player in order to view video files currently housed on my computer. I'm still waiting for it to arrive, but I wanted to see how exactly this is going to work for me.

It looks like mezzmo is the best option for streaming content from the PC to the player, and i will certainly look into that. However, I see that playing files from an external hard drive plugged directly into the player's USB is an option. Will this work well with a Western Digital 1.5 TB external drive? Do i need to have it formatted as FAT 32 or something of the like, or will NTFS work?

Assuming this works, does it do a better or worse job than the streaming options?

Note: I view files on a Samsung TV, but I am going to go out on a limb and say your player will be similar.

You can have it formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. NTFS is a much better option as then you can store large files on it for viewing. Playing something directly connected will always be the "best" experience as far as speed goes. Depending on what you are trying to play (file/size/bitrate/container) streaming might be fine for you as well. The only downside is having to take your external back to your PC to load files onto it. During TV season that could get very annoying and streaming comes in nicely.

Give the Mezzmo trial a go before you do anything else, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. Hopefully BritinVA can chime in as I know he uses a Samsung BD player for his files.

good luck

I was wondering if anybody can help me.

I'm having a lot of problems with connectivity.

Every time I try to play a video or music file through either PCSM or Mezzmo I constantly get the message "device disconnected". It is only happening with my BD C6500.

I run a hard wired connection to my 46C630 and their is no problems there. Can stream any files without any difficulties.

I have wireless connection to my BD C6500 (have 2 of those) and connections constantly drops every time I try to stream something from my PC (run Windows 7). I checked the wireless connection and it is fine (pass network test easily). No problem there, no problems with firewall either, updated latest firmware, run the latest version of either PCSM or Mezzmo and still the same. Tried with rebooting, powering cycle, setup factory reset and still nothing. Connection keeps dropping after few minutes. No problem running any of internet widgets through BD C6500 but any streaming through my PC is getting me nowhere.

I'm using 2Wire 3800HGV-B Gateway.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I resolved the issue.

I determined that the default security protocol on my 2wire modem was WPA. The error message on blue ray player said that it did not accept this protocal. It accepts WEP so I logged on to the http/ address located on the side of the modem. The logon password is also located on the side of the modem.
I changed the security protocol from WPA to WEP, and the problem was solved. I also had to change the security settings on all of the computers in my home in order to get internet accesss.

It works flawlessly now. Pretty good player.

Hello everybody,

From some time now I've been using my Samsung LE40C550 to stream movies from my PC via Samsung PC share manager. Up to this point everything worked fine but I've encountered a *.mkv file that just won't open. On my pc the file works fine so I'm sure that it isn't damaged. Every *.mkv file till now worked perfectly. What can be wrong ? are there some *.mkv files that are supported and other *.mkv that are not? Is it possible that using mezzmo instead of PCSM would resolve this problem?

My tv is plugged to a wifi router. My current system version: 2010/09/03_002005 I' tried to update it but it says that no updates are available (menu/diagnosis/system update)
PC share manager runs on hp pavilion with WIN7.

Ps. If ever Samsung releases any codec update it will be in menu/diagnosis/system update?

thanks in advance

I hear that Mezzmo will resolve that, but I haven't personally made the investment yet. I've resolved it in Windows 7 by simply renaming the file type from .mkv to .avi. I then often need to reboot my pc.

i've open the file using mediainfo and these are the results:

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 51mn
Bit rate : 4 988 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 528 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.40:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.308
Stream size : 3.78 GiB (87%)
Writing library : x264 core 112 r1834 a51816a
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=4988 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1h 51mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 509 MiB (11%)

is it possible to open a file with these properties with my tv/pc share manager? if not what software do i need to play this file on the tv ? which of the above properties determine whether the file is playable via mediaplay?

ps. what is even more weird, when i open the mediaplay and enter the folder with the file, the program recognizes the file (shows a picture from the clip) however when i press to play it starts to load, and keeps loading for few minutes. after that the mediaplay pops up again and notifies that the file isn't supported