Samsung Television with DLNA client and XBMC UPnP Media Server?

Thank you for your reply jschoen. I decided to go with the internet@app TV as the price difference was $150 or so and as you said and Czechmarty, it would be good investment in the future. I will probably rely on XBMC for all of my local media. XBMC addons compliment the local with some internet capability.

I wish XBMC would come integrated with Samsung TV rather than their slow yahoo based widgets.

ChocoboX Wrote:Thank you for your reply jschoen. I decided to go with the internet@app TV as the price difference was $150 or so and as you said and Czechmarty, it would be good investment in the future. I will probably rely on XBMC for all of my local media. XBMC addons compliment the local with some internet capability.

I wish XBMC would come integrated with Samsung TV rather than their slow yahoo based widgets.

Congrats on your purchase mate! I hope the new TV will serve you well. I'm sure after Dharma will settle down, there will be more addons for internet as well in XBMC. The Netflix is very nice addition for the TV.

I recently got a Samsung C550 TV w/ ethernet. It has a very rudimentary media player based on pnp. I set up an app called Media Tomb on my Unraid server, and can get access to my entire video library on the Samsung. It plays pretty much anything I throw at it, including 1080p MKV files. However, the interface and functionality are nowhere near as nice as XBMC.

I was also looking at the Samsung (LED) 5/6/7 series with the Ethernet and was wondering about something.

Is/would it be possible to access one`s XBMC library via a browser interface?
Thus an XBMC web server if you will...

It would be awesome if it 'streamed' content to devices/machines instead of just using it as a remote control function.


k never mind http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=The_Web_Interface
It`s rather slow and buggy but would like to see some more development.

I have a Samsung LE32C550 TV with Allshare. It plays MOST of the files I've tried to stream though I've had some MKV's that just wouldn't start. Also on MKV's there's no real Fast Forward or Rewind which can be quite annoying. It's a bedroom TV and I accidentally hit the Ch+ button the other day when trying to turn the Volume down at the end of Karate Kid. That turned the movie off so I was then forced to get out of bed and watch the last 10 minutes in the living room on the Popcorn hour. Not good.

Also I had to do some Linux jiggery-pokery on my Synology NAS as I don't keep my Movies etc in standard DLNA folders so the Samsung couldn't find them. XBMC took a few seconds for me to point to the correct folders.

The GUI on the Samsung insn't a patch on XBMC either.

Just my 2p worth.

I've installed the XBMC on my mac and all seems well. I've also tried to set it up using dlna with my samsung tv. I can see it at my tv but when i try to open the video or music folder it says to request cannot be completed and does not show any files. Am i missing a step?

Is UPNP actually DLNA?

I would say no.

My Samsung TV seems to think so. It says it onscreen but it won't open the folders.

Same problem here: looks like there is no way to let the TV open any media. It just sees the server and shows Video and Music main folder, but when trying to open them, it shows the very same error message.

The samsung only accepts a very limited set of file types. We don't do any transcoding (and thus not really compatible with DLNA).

That said. there seem to be issues with sammy's and our upnp server. Not sure why it doesn't display any items.