As others have said, it’s better to use “Network Shares” and avoid DLNA (Media Server).
This article explains why you should avoid DLNA:
Why do I hate DLNA protocol so much ?
Quote from the article:
“for each file, the DLNA server has to first demux it, in order to retrieve its A/V and container information, so that it knows whether or not it complies with an existing profile. If it does not and you still want it to be streamed, than the server has to either remux it (best case ever) if it’s enough, or remux and re-encode it on the fly (worst case ever) to a valid profile so that player can read it. Of course, doing so on-the-fly consumes a lot of CPU power, which is, by definition, not available, making it impossible to do on embedded devices, which were the target of DLNA inventors.”
A NAS cpu is not equipped to decode heavy video files, much less it can do a good job re-encoding them on the fly.
Even if you have the cpu/gpu power from a computer, if DLNA needs to re-encode, it will lose the original quality.
WDTV Live SMP has hardware support for decoding the video files with quality.
