Hello,
I'm glad I found these forums and hope I can get some help and not sound to silly in asking
For years I have solely used my PS3 for streaming movies/audio that I have stored on my file server (running windows home server 11) located on my network. Rarely an issue other than the cinema audio block on a few movies here and there. I also could not view any .MKV files while using the PS3 as my media player. I recently got a PS4 and smart TV and since the PS4 doesn't stream content yet, I'm using my TV as my media player. I like it, works great, but I'm having issues with some files not being recognized. Once again, no .MKV files ever show up. I'll create a folder, drop an .MKV file in it and the folder won't even show up in the list on my TV. So I started to research into converting them to .MP4 ... did that, but nothing. I converted a whole season of Game of Thrones to .MP4 and only one episode actually showed up in the list on my TV. Frustrated once again and getting to the point of just giving up on ever being able to stream an .MKV file.
I've tried different media servers (servillo, Plex, etc) and I always have this .MKV issue. Is there like a king of all kings type set up for streaming movies/music to a smart tv ? I have no problem changing/editing my set up just so it works. I really don't want to convert every .MKV file that I ever get so best care scenerio is being able to stream the .MKV file type.
Any help, ideas, suggestions, or shots of tequila to help take the frustrations away will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
Hello,
I'm glad I found these forums and hope I can get some help and not sound to silly in asking

For years I have solely used my PS3 for streaming movies/audio that I have stored on my file server (running windows home server 11) located on my network. Rarely an issue other than the cinema audio block on a few movies here and there. I also could not view any .MKV files while using the PS3 as my media player. I recently got a PS4 and smart TV and since the PS4 doesn't stream content yet, I'm using my TV as my media player. I like it, works great, but I'm having issues with some files not being recognized. Once again, no .MKV files ever show up. I'll create a folder, drop an .MKV file in it and the folder won't even show up in the list on my TV. So I started to research into converting them to .MP4 ... did that, but nothing. I converted a whole season of Game of Thrones to .MP4 and only one episode actually showed up in the list on my TV. Frustrated once again and getting to the point of just giving up on ever being able to stream an .MKV file.
I've tried different media servers (servillo, Plex, etc) and I always have this .MKV issue. Is there like a king of all kings type set up for streaming movies/music to a smart tv ? I have no problem changing/editing my set up just so it works. I really don't want to convert every .MKV file that I ever get so best care scenerio is being able to stream the .MKV file type.
Any help, ideas, suggestions, or shots of tequila to help take the frustrations away will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave