I recently purchased a new Panasonic BDT210 Bluray player. It's fantastic. It does 3D (not that I have a television to support it) and plays everything and sound great.
However. I tried to fire up the DLNA Client with my Twonky Media Server. Fail. Even setting it to the correct profile didn't seem to keep it happy. I placed the ffmpeg binaries into c:\ffmpeg and enabled transcoding on the web server. Still, nothing.
Then I found Serviio (http://www.serviio.org)
After binding it to the correct port and giving it a reset, the player saw it. Then, I set the profile to the 'Sony Bravia' and enabled transcoding on both cores.
Tada! Serviio has ffmpeg built-in and does the transcoding to MPEG2 which is what the Panasonic BDT210 supports. I imagine with enough tinkering this would also enable you to do the same with TVersity or similar but Serviio just worked straight out the box.
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Would you be willing to give a more step-by-step answer (for noobs) on how you got the BDT210 connected to Serviio? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI was using the old version (0.5.1) but on there you need to change the profile of the device to a Sony Bravia. The newer version of Serviio (0.6.1) might have a proper Panasonic profile.
ReplyDeleteIt's worth noting that you couldn't pause it with the old version which led me buy a WD Tv Live Player for £70 but hopefully they will fix that soon.