Can't view movies/play audio through DLNA

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Using jRiver as a media server on my PC.  I can see the files from Live Hub, but when I try to play music or videos nothing happens.  I just get the wait icon churning forever.  Most videos are MKV, audio is WMA.  I can play the same files from the same server on my Panasonic Viera TV.

Any suggestions - I’ve read that latest firmware has lots of problems with DLNA but not sure if that’s true.  Is there another way to perhaps just setup a network shared drive?

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Post the media info of  one of your movies:

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2745

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Here’s one movie file (although I have no luck with any from several different sources including audio)

General Complete name                    : [\KENDO-OFFICE\Movies\copied](file://%5C%5CKENDO-OFFICE%5CMovies%5Ccopied) to WD\Shrek - 4 Ever After.mkv Format                           : Matroska Format version                   : Version 2 File size                        : 2.64 GiB Duration                         : 1h 33mn Overall bit rate                 : 4 057 Kbps Writing application              : x264.exe Writing library                  : mkv2rls v1.3 (date: 2010 aug 28)

Video ID                               : 1 Format                           : AVC Format/Info                      : Advanced Video Codec Format profile                   : High@L4.1 Format settings, CABAC           : Yes Format settings, ReFrames        : 5 frames Codec ID                         : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration                         : 1h 33mn Bit rate                         : 3 415 Kbps Width                            : 1 280 pixels Height                           : 544 pixels Display aspect ratio             : 2.35:1 Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps Color space                      : YUV Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0 Bit depth                        : 8 bits Scan type                        : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.205 Stream size                      : 2.17 GiB (82%) Writing library                  : x264 core 107 r1772 c9dad9e Encoding settings                : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.15 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=3415 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00 Language                         : English Default                          : Yes Forced                           : No

Audio ID                               : 2 Format                           : AC-3 Format/Info                      : Audio Coding 3 Mode extension                   : CM (complete main) Codec ID                         : A_AC3 Duration                         : 1h 33mn Bit rate mode                    : Constant Bit rate                         : 640 Kbps Channel(s)                       : 6 channels Channel positions                : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz Bit depth                        : 16 bits Compression mode                 : Lossy Stream size                      : 427 MiB (16%) Title                            : English AC3 Language                         : English Default                          : Yes Forced                           : No

Text ID                               : 3 Format                           : UTF-8 Codec ID                         : S_TEXT/UTF8 Codec ID/Info                    : UTF-8 Plain Text Title                            : English Language                         : English Default                          : No Forced                           : No

Menu 00:00:00.000                     : en:00:00:00.000 00:04:47.787                     : en:00:04:47.787 00:08:39.936                     : en:00:08:39.936 00:14:51.724                     : en:00:14:51.724 00:19:51.190                     : en:00:19:51.190 00:24:43.315                     : en:00:24:43.315 00:33:22.334                     : en:00:33:22.334 00:41:11.469                     : en:00:41:11.469 00:44:51.272                     : en:00:44:51.272 00:48:32.451                     : en:00:48:32.451 00:51:31.630                     : en:00:51:31.630 00:53:02.388                     : en:00:53:02.388 00:58:25.961                     : en:00:58:25.961 01:03:13.748                     : en:01:03:13.748 01:05:48.862                     : en:01:05:48.862 01:12:34.475                     : en:01:12:34.475 01:20:00.421                     : en:01:20:00.421 01:23:13.822                     : en:01:23:13.822

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Here’s one from a audio file that won’t play

General Complete name                    : [\KENDO-OFFICE\Music\Slightly](file://%5C%5CKENDO-OFFICE%5CMusic%5CSlightly) Stoopid\Closer to the Sun Disc 1\17 Closer to the Sun.wma Format                           : Windows Media File size                        : 2.82 MiB Duration                         : 2mn 25s Overall bit rate mode            : Constant Overall bit rate                 : 162 Kbps Maximum Overall bit rate         : 161 Kbps Album                            : Closer to the Sun Disc 1 Track name                       : Closer to the Sun Track name/Position              : 17 Performer                        : Slightly Stoopid Composer                         : Slightly Stoopid Publisher                        : Reincarnate Music Genre                            : Reggae Recorded date                    : 2005 Encoded date                     : UTC 1993-01-02 01:57:20 / UTC 2006-05-21 20:12:28.000 Provider                         : AMG WM/ProviderRating                : 5 WM/ProviderStyle                 : Rock WM/PartOfSet                     : 1/1 WM/SharedUserRating              : 1 ZuneUserEditedFields             : (Binary)

Audio ID                               : 1 Format                           : WMA Format version                   : Version 2 Codec ID                         : 161 Codec ID/Info                    : Windows Media Audio Description of the codec         : Windows Media Audio 9.1 - 160 kbps, 44 kHz, stereo 1-pass CBR Duration                         : 2mn 25s Bit rate mode                    : Constant Bit rate                         : 160 Kbps Channel(s)                       : 2 channels Sampling rate                    : 44.1 KHz Bit depth                        : 16 bits Stream size                      : 2.78 MiB (99%)

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sorry for the hard to read pastes.  Looks fine in notepad, not sure why it pastes the way it does.

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OK - I have no idea what I did, but I got it working.  Both through media player and jRiver.  All is good!