On 2/11/2014 10:09 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > What server software have you tried? I'm using serviio on a mac but > would expect the linux version to be equivalent, with an assortment of > players (ps3, sony blu-ray player, vlc on an ipad, etc.). The trick > with video is to be sure it is encoded in a format the player can > handle directly so the server isn't transcoding on the fly. And > avoid wifi if possible. thats the problem. different clients have different unpublished format rules. i have devices that play HD mp4 and mkv files just fine via SMB, but refuse to acknowledge the same files as video if they are over DLNA and ask for them to be converted to something else. Or maybe they will play the video but don't like the audio and want it transcoded. whaaa? That and the whole DLNA finder and tag system is awful. i have stuff directory structured and not all of it is well tagged. DLNA clients decide to lump it all in one virtual list, 12000 titles or whatever. needless to say, that crashed the browser on half the embedded players. different DLNA servers have a different idea of how tags should be structured. DLNA players kept insisting on showing me directories and files that I'd deleted a week ago. ugh, I quit. SMB gives me my directory structure, and thats fine, and the WD TV in particular has played just about everything I've thrown at it, AVI, MP4, MKV, TS, Ogg, Flac, etc etc. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast