I guys, I tought I pass my sorry state of a DLNA home server on.
I have a Laptop with a DNLA server built in (a Sony) and loved the fact that i can serve content to my TV directly from there, but didnt like having the laptop on to do it. Now wanting to banish the DVD and CD collections to the loft for good I thought a Link Station Live was the way to go.
Imagine my disapointment when the Linkstion wont serve the content correctly.
Playback stops after 62 seconds
Plus Artist information is not diplayed, yet copy the same file back to my laptop and stream from the PC and its fine.
So my conclusion can only be that the DLNA server built in to the linkstation is very poor.
I phoned buffalo tech whom stated they are aware of the problem, yet could not give me a fix date.
I downloaded the lastest firmware that was posted today, in hope that it will fix it, but no
This is my set up
Linkstation Live with Bit torrant FW 1.07
BT Home Hub
Laptop Vista SP1
Sony KDL-46w4500
Laptop serves media fine all artist info correct, album art etc all fine
Linkstation doesn't, stops playing with the message "playback not available"appearing on the TV not artist info.
I also checked the audio feature on the "slideshow" option on the TV that plays tracks while viewing your photos, that stops too.
approximate cut off times are Taken from another forum with users getting the same issues.
kbps, playback time, total kb /1024
64 for 124 secs = 7.8
96 for 83 secs = 7.8
112 for 71 secs = 7.8
128 for 62 secs = 7.8
160 for 49 secs = 7.7
192 for 41 secs = 7.7
I now have the world most expensive hard drive that wont stream media.
Please buffalo get a fix sorted soon as I want to buy something to play the movies to the TV via HDMI now, but the Buffalo DNLA stuff doesnt seem to be up to scratch.