samsung tv dlna intermittently disconnects from live book [ Edited ]

[bcooper876]

I haven't been able to find a forum here that discusses this issue yet (maybe I missed it).  I'm having an issue where my dlna between my samsung tv and my book live is intermittently dropped while streaming media.  Sometimes I can watch a movie for an hour, sometimes only a few minutes before the media disconnects.  

I have a motorola modem/router-in-one attached to a switch to which both the book live and the samsung tv are connected.  A forum elsewhere seemed to suggest that there may be some benefit to creating static ip addressed for the tv and my book live.  This has not resolved the issue.

Is anyone else experiencing similar difficulties?  Does anyone have any suggestions that may alleviate this problem?  

Thanks in advance for your help.

[anotherpaul]

I have a similar problem but it is not intermittently as it is a thorough disconnect or twonky/MBL won't/don't check if anything is connected.  Evidently MBL also don't care if twonky is sending audio/video prior to shutting the data stream.

I had a previous posting about my AVR being able to get music for only about 2 hrs (now believe that it is around 100 min.) after the MBL bootup (I shutdown each night).  I was able to get several hours of audio streaming twice; but now have resorted to rebooting MBL when MBL disallow Twonky to send audios; sometimes I unplug the ethernet cable until the MBL led goes to red & then plug the cable back into the router.

It shouldn't happen.  Now believe that the MBL OS implementation is faulty as the listening socket evidently times out, goes to sleep indefinitely according to what is in the "watch" tables.  The listing for the Twonky server disappears from my AVR which checks for servers ocassionally & updates the listing.

[bcooper876 · Accepted solution]

So, I may have a fix for this.  I've watched two movies uninterrupted.  I disabled 'Hard disk sleep' within the dashboard (settings --> system --> energy saver), and also disabled 'Restart on NIC changes' under the network settings on the Twonky configuration page (to get to Twonky config page, go to <MBL ip address>:9000/config).

[SShadow]

I am having a similar issue... except I don't have to even be streaming anything in order for the TV to disconnect. I can just be one step into the DLNA browser (where you choose all files, album, folder, etc) for about 10 seconds before it disconnects. The thing that pisses me off the most, it is was working without issue only days ago. And nothing has changed in between the time it worked and when it stopped working, firmware wise. I have added folders and files to the drive, but those folders/files were not shared. I've eliminated the wireless component of my setup, to no effect. I've restarted, rebuilt and rescanned multiple times, to no effect. I am now in the process of removing files from the drive in preparation for a bloody factory reset to see if that will solve the problem. I am getting very annoyed with this WD product and all the hoops that I've had to go through to getting it working as advertised. I'm this ] [ close to returning it.

[mgutai]

Hi,

I have the same issues. I try to watch a movie on my Samsung Tv and after 10(!!!) seconds it disconnects.

Tryed static IP. Didn't work.

Isn't there any workaround for this???

Regards,

Mihaly

[Bruce007]

I get both of these issues:

1 - error while browsing through folders to media, fails back to beginning. generally each retry gets you few folders deeper.

2 - disconnects during playback, from both Samsung BD-C7500 and PS3, much more from samsung.

PS3 is connected to the same netger DGNG3700 router as MBL, and Samsung is via a switch connected to router. All wired gigabit. 

I just unchecked the reset server on network changes, as this is not frequent on my network. will see if that improves.

[mgutai]

"I just unchecked the reset server on network changes, as this is not frequent on my network. will see if that improves."

Tried it and it didn't work Some other idea?

rgds,

Mihaly

[WDXpress]

Same problem here. I will be watching a move and then Device disconnected error. Why can't a company as big as WD make products that do what is promised? I replaced my router, I am on a Fios connection, so what gives?

[Wizer]

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WDXpress wrote:

Same problem here. I will be watching a move and then Device disconnected error. Why can't a company as big as WD make products that do what is promised? I replaced my router, I am on a Fios connection, so what gives?

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Did you try the solution posted by BCooper? 

[WDXpress]

I will try that, Thanks