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Comment on Samsung LN52A750 DLNA Wiselinkpro -Sorting it Out by Mart

Mart — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:48:18 +0000

One thing that has not been mentioned yet is that Fast Forward and Rewind do not seem to work with most (all) of the DNLA servers out there. You may notice that FF and RW do work if you play your files directly from a USB stick. Over at the SamyGo website there is a method to stream to your TV from your computer with those functions intact. You do not need to go as far as hacking your firmware (which is alot of what that site is about and you can do it that way if you wish) but can run an extension which creates a Samba Server and allows the TV to see your PC (as long as you leave a USB stick plugged in to it).

Start your reading with the post from DD4Ever found here… http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10992&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=120

Instructions can be found here…
http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=44535

Note: Use SamyGO-All-Extensions-v0.03.0 or 3.1 I first tried 3.5 and could not get that one going.

Comment on Samsung LN52A750 DLNA Wiselinkpro -Sorting it Out by Mike

Mike — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:56:22 +0000

Just wanted to say a big thanks – this is precisely the information I’ve been looking for for several hours, and you’re the only one that doesn’t just parrot the official “supports MP4″ line. Given my large collection of handbrake-encoded MP4s, I’ll be revisiting my previous decision to pick up a Samsung TV.

It’s a shame manufacturer support for any type of video that doesnt’ come over HDMI or an aerial continues to be a joke, even in 2010….

Comment on Samsung LN52A750 DLNA Wiselinkpro -Sorting it Out by nas storage servers

nas storage servers — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:52:09 +0000

VERY detailed tutorial there. Now if only I can this whole thing to work with my new Samsung TV

Comment on Samsung LN52A750 DLNA Wiselinkpro -Sorting it Out by Slash

Slash — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:43:02 +0000

Fuppes also doesn’t work on my ‘Samsung TV, it Crashes when I try to connect

ushare and minidlna work, but doesn’t support mkv (unknown filetype)

any idea what to do ?

thanks

Comment on Samsung LN52A750 DLNA Wiselinkpro -Sorting it Out by PLB

PLB — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:35:51 +0000

After purchasing a new Samsung Series 8 TV mainly because it had DLNA I then spent around a month trying many different DLNA servers on my Mac mini. Pretty much all of them including Eye Connect, PS3 Media Server, Twonky etc all suffered the same issues, TV could see the Mac however movies were either reporting unsupported format or the movie would play but only for a few minutes. Needless to say this was extremely frustrating.

Solution: Use Vuze. It has a DLNA plugin. The interface is a little clunky but it is free and it works. Occasionally I hit a problem playing a movie but this is generally due to the audio codec embedded in the mkv container not being supported by the TV. I now stream 8-9GB HD (1080) movies via a cabled network to the TV without issue. Currently using Vuze 4.4.0.4.

Hope this helps

Comment on Samsung LN52A750 DLNA Wiselinkpro -Sorting it Out by Cat

Cat — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:34:05 +0000

Great article. I’m interested in your fuppes experience for streaming video. I’ve got fuppes on a Freenas server that I’d like to use with a Samsung Blu-Ray player that is DLNA compatible, Right now, fuppes crashes when I try to connect with it. The Samsung PC software works well – not too picky when it comes to video formats, but I’d prefer to use the freenas server.

Comment on Samsung LN52A750 DLNA Wiselinkpro -Sorting it Out by Fred

Fred — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:42:31 +0000

Hello Brenda,

In PC Share Manager you must accept your TV under the Set device policy(beleid apparaat instellen)-option in the share(delen)-menu. After that it will work fine.

Comment on Samsung LN52A750 DLNA Wiselinkpro -Sorting it Out by Fabio

Fabio — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:35:08 +0000

I’m trying to get fuppes on freenas to talk with my new Samsung TV but couldn’t find any answer (besides change the mkv mime-type. On your article you said that works fine, could you give more details?

Thanks

Comment on Samsung LN52A750 DLNA Wiselinkpro -Sorting it Out by Brenda

Brenda — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:32:17 +0000

I am getting an error message “no external storage device found” when I select media player on my TV. I am trying to access my files wirelessly using a router in the room with my pc, and a wireless bridge that is connected to my Samsung TV. I am using PC Share Manager. Can anyone help me to resolve this? Thanks in advance.

Comment on Objective-C Proper Class init by tom

tom — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:27:27 +0000

For the most part you are right. Subclassing NSObject especially does not ever return nil. However, you will find that in almost all Apple code you will see this convention used. It is the Apple recommended way to init. There are many very lengthy discussions about this on cocoa-dev. Here is one such discussion http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/286849-self-super-init-nil.html