And didn't find mandates for support of many encodings. Can you share exactly where in the DLNA spec this is?
There are "approved" media formats, but in their lingo, an approved format is not mandated to be in the DLNA client.
I see a lot of people writing about this but let's see where this is in the DLNA spec as I didn't find anything beyond what is approved (not mandated.)
http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/0/5/f05a42ce-575b-4c60-82d6-208d3754b2d6/DLNA_Part_1_RS08.pptx
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I bought my LN52A750 52" LCD TV because it claimed to be DLNA-certified, only to be absolutely dissapointed by the actual experience of trying to use it to play media from my (Linux-based) DLNA media server.
It being Linux, I can't install the Samsung-provided software, as they only provide a windows version, however DLNA is a standard, and even without installing Samsung's software, The TV can correctly list all my media files on my Linux server, which proves the link is working fine. The problem is whenever I try to actually play a listed file the TV says "Unrecognised Format" or something similar. It can't even recognise mp3 files. How stupid does the TV have to be not to recognise mp3?
I already know the TV has the ability to recoginse and play my media, beacuse it can play those same media files just fine after I copy them to a USB thumb-drive and plug that into the TV.
Has anyone here actually manged to get their Samsung TV to play anything via DLNA off a Linux server? If so, please post up here and tell us how, and what your setup is. I'm particularly interested to know what DLNA server you're running on your Linux box and how it is configured.
I've even tried using DLNA to play media files off my vista-based PC which uses Media Player 11, which already includes a DLNA server, yet the TV has exactly the same problem with that too, until I install the Samsung software. That makes no sense at all, unless the Samsung software is just to provide a workaround for the fact that Samsung TVs do not actually implement DLNA properly as per the standard.
Dear Samsung: You marketed my TV as being DLNA certified yet it doesn't work with DLNA properly. Your unsatisfactory workaround is to provide us with Windows-only software that makes sweeping assumptions aboutthe DLNA server bwing a windows-based PC, so limits the TV's use to a subset of actual customer systems. There are more (and better) operating systems than Windows in the world. There are also many DLNA servers that are properly certified and are self-contained appliances (such as NAS systems) rather than computers, so can't even have any kind of software installed on them anyway. Yet you don't do anything to support them.
HEY Samsung: What about finally supporting us Samnsung customers with DLNA servers that are not based on windows PCs?
My TV has been out for well over a year now, I have kept up-to-date with firmware upgrades each time hoping that it will finally add the missing DLNA functionality we all need, only to be disappointed each time.
There are loads of posts about this same problem all over the internet. Samsung as a company must already be well aware of it, yet are clearly ignoring us customers because they already have our money. This is highly unacceptable. Its also the reason I will never buy another Samsung product until they finally release a firwware update for my LN52A750 TV that implements DLNA properly.
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