Has anybody managed successfully to get a Foxsat HDR to DLNA to a Panasonic Viera?
I'm getting a "Cannot read file" from the TV, which I think probably means the file needs to be transcoded to a very slightly different format.
The TV is a Panasonic TX-L37D28BWA, which is a 2010 Freesat HD model (bought end-of-line in 2011). It is connected with a BT HomeHub and the Foxsat using HomePlugs.
The Foxsat HDR is running the current version (4.0.7) of the custom firmware. I have been trying both the Twonky package (4.4.18) and MediaTomb (0.11.0), though mostly Twonky as this seems to show up in the Panasonic's "Media Server" list more reliably -- at least it usually seems to, at least after a couple of minutes or so; whereas MediaTomb seems to just stop running quite often.
With Twonky, when the Panasonic can see the server, I seem to get the media list through all right. All videos, whether HD or SD, are identified as MPEG2-PS; though it thinks the HD recordings are all of length 596:31:23. The SD files appear to be the correct duration; but after a pause of about 30 seconds for buffering, up comes a message "Cannot read file".
The TV can run Freesat iplayer all right, so I don't think there can be a bandwidth or network problem. And if I download one of the .ts files a pc, it seems to run fine, so there doesn't seem to be any file corruption problem.
I've had difficulties getting the TV (or indeed anything on the network) to share media from the pc, but I have managed it a couple of times, and the TV was able to then able to play a couple of the short sample videos that came with Win 7, though not any of the .ts files I'd copied over.
I'm thinking that the Viera must be being very fussy about the stream resolution and/or packaging; and may need some transcoding done, to a greater or lesser degree. I suspect Twonky is capable of this, but I'm not sure how to go about it. So I thought I'd ask whether anyone has had any luck in the past with this sort of problem, and can give any advice as to getting round it?