Hello everyone.
I have observed the characteristics of My Book Live (MBL) and I’m almost convinced to buy one to store and stream media content to my devices. I have only one question on which I will appreciate any help you can share.
I have a Samsung LED TV 6500 (UN32C6500VF), which works fine from my PC with Allshare activated server.
I watched on the official site and apparently is a DLNA Certified Product.
Need to make sure before buying MBL, if I can access and play the formats of photos, music and video without problems, from my Samsung TV.
I appreciate any comments or suggestions.
Thanks a lot.!
No one here can tell you that with certainty.
Just because a TV is DLNA certified doesn’t mean it will play everything.
You need to carefully read the specifications of the SAMSUNG to see what formats it will support.
Thank you very much for your response Tony.!
Maybe I was not entirely clear with my query.
I’m not worried specifically in the formats I can read, but my question is if my Samsung LED TV, can recognize MBL as a device, and read its internal content.
It became clear that the scope of file types that I can read, only depends on the TV.
Anyone know if this type of TV recognizes and reads the files of MBL.?
Thanks.
I’ve got a DLNA certified Samsung LA46C650 LCD TV hooked to MyBook live and can stream flawlessly any format except MKV containers. MKVs do play via USB and PC share though, but not from the MyBook Live. So my guess that the same goes with your TV. Hopefully this helps.
Thank you very much TE!
Your comment is very valuable to me.
I was talking via chat online with a Samsung technician and he mentioned that the LED works OK with any DLNA certified device, which I supose that there will not be problems with MBL.
I ve been searching for the manual of your LCD to review issues about your impossibility to play MKV. Unfortunately I have not found the manual, but I saw that my LED can play MKV formats. I guess your LCD too, but I wonder why ?
I don´t know for sure, but perhaps a limitation of bandwidth could happen via USB. Have you tried via LAN (ethernet connector).?
Tnks! & Gbye.
Yeh my TV supports MKV and I can play them on my TV via USB or when streaming over WLAN or LAN from my laptop. However, the MKVs do not play from the MyBook Live which is connected to the TV LAN port via gigabit router. The issue of MKVs not playing from the MyBook Live seems to be very common (see many other threads) and no real solution has been provided…
Ups … I hope the WD developers are looking for a solution to this, because they could easily lose influence on the decision of the people who want to buy a device like this.In these days, I will define if I buy MBL or IOMEGA Home Media Network Hard Drive.
Would be a pity for WD, to lose sales of a product as MBL for not to bring a solution for a so common fault.
I leave open the post if someone can give us support comments.Thanks for everything.!
The MyBook Live streams MKV from Twonky just fine.
If the SAMSUNG isn’t playing them, then it’s one of two issues:
1> The TV doesn’t support them via DLNA.
2> The TWONKY profile for the SAMSUNG model you’re using provides a MIME type to the TV that the TV doesn’t like.
Thanks TonyThere is obviously, some kind of incompatibility between devices.
Should be reviewed for what reason actually happens.
3 points where we can view:
1 WD Support.
2 Samsung Support.
3 DLNA org.
In my case, Samsung provides a very good answer, but certainly not ensure interoperability between all devices for potential failures of incompatibility (isolated cases).
Thank you all!
FYI, here’s the TWONKY profile for some Samsung TVs:
NA:Samsung TV
DD:Samsung DTV
XM:DLNA15
XM:FORCE_DURATION
XM:FORCE_4TH_FIELD
MT:mkv video/x-mkv
DB:FIX
That’s the only thing in the Twonky client database for Samsung TVs. So, if that’s not adequate to YOUR TV, you may need to edit the Twonky profile.
The presense of the field “MT:mkv” shows that Twonky will serve MKV files to Samsung TVs (as long as the TV identifies itself as “Samsung DTV” to the Mybook. It will list a mime-type of x-mkv to the TV, and the TV must accept that. If the TV doesn’t like that mime-type, it won’t work.
FWIW I bought a samsung blu-ray player, and the MyBookLive showed up as a device in the samsung’s main menu, from which I oculd conceivably stream files to the blu-ray player. I’d imagine their TV would work very similarly. I did not test though; I don’t use the MBL in that way.
then the network connection on the samsung broke and now it’s sees nothing :smileyvery-happy:
How do you view this or change the settings? Please show step by step if u can.
I have the mybooklive NAS networked to my samsung un55c7000 led tv. I can’t play mkv files and I have to convert it to mpeg2 using mkv2vob. The samsung manual says the tv should play mkv files. So is it a problem with the NAS or Twonky?
Hello rcp1981.!
I´ve decided not to buy MBL at the moment , but a Live TV HUB (yes).
I think the TonyPh12345 last response in this chain of chat, has a very important information that could be good for you.
Take a look on that.! He told us about some kind of TWONKY profile for Samsung TVs.
Good luck.!!
Thanks remoteup. I’m really confused about this. How do you edit a twonky proifle?
I just want the MBL to stream mkv files with dts audio.
Hi RCP.
I would be happy to help you, but honestly I dont have sufficient knowledge to guide you in this level of (advanced) procedure. In the other hand, ultimately the work is taking me too much time to learn something more, but maybe our friend TonyPh12345 have the courtesy to give us a web link to guide us about the correct procedure.
Hey Tony … you’re the expert … we will be here waiting for any instruction or guidance you can give us kindly.
Another consultation: ¿Is there a risk, if we make a mistake with sentences? ¿Could we turn to MBL into a brick?
Thank you.!
I don’t know what to tell y’all. I’ve had no need to modify it. So while I can tell you to SSH into the box and the file to edit, I have no idea what you’d need to change.
Thanks Tony. You wrote this in the other forum about twonky: “If it’s a mime type or profile issue (like several file types on PS3s) one can simply edit the clients.db file in Twonky and be working in about 2 minutes”
Could you explain how to do this or send a link showing how?
