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[raven268]

I recently bought a LS-WXL Linkstation Duo enclosure, had the media server setup fine, firmware updated to 1.34. However, I'm facing problem streaming mkv videos to my Samsung LA40C550 LCD TV. Same file can be played either through USB drive or Serviio media server though. Any idea what might be wrong here?

[Dustrega]

Are you streaming over a wired network or wireless?

[raven268]

Wired.

[Dustrega]

10/100? Gigabit? Any other specifications you might think are relevant?

[raven268]

100mbps to TV.

Not that I  can think of. I can stream the similar file through USB and Serviio, works flawlessly. As for Linkstation Media server, it can see the file but keep on saying format not recognize but for other format such as AVI, it streams perfectly.

[Dustrega]

Then the DLNA support for that file type being played from the NAS might not be included.  Especially, since AVI is working fine.  I'm not sure how else to put it.

[arthurleo]

I have the same issue with .mkv files not playing on my LinkStation Duo LS-WXL/E and playing from my Samsung Blu-Ray BD-C5500 player.  However, the same .mkv files play fine if I point it to another DLNA server which runs off my Mac running TVMobili software.

A check with the User Manual on page 111 reveals that it does not list .mkv as a supported DLNA format but it does have one called ".m1v" (which I thought was a typo error since I am not familiar with such a format!).

This is a real bummer and I hope Buffalo updates the firmware to support this .mkv format (which is very popular and is really high def) or else I will discard my Buffalo NAS for another brand which supports .mkv in the near future.  I can't think of any decent vendor claiming DLNA support which does not support a very popular file format like .mkv, seriously!

Can someone from Buffalo please tell me that they will support .mkv in an upcoming firmware update?

[return78]

I had been waiting for months on MKV support but yet. :)

[CapnSmith]

There is an update to the firmware for this unit, version 1.37.

I recommend updating to this firmware, then resetting your unit to defaults and reconfiguring it, and trying to stream your .mkv files again.

[arthurleo]

Thanks for the tip but I must point out that the latest firmware, for the Linkstation Duo LS-WXL/E is version 1.4 which had a post date of 28 December 2010. The first thing I did, after I bought this puppy, was to update the firmware to this latest version even before transferring my media files from my old NAS and reconfiguring to run as RAID 1 (I've lost data on previous NASs before so I always configure my NASs for RAID 1 nowadays). As reported in my post, my .mkv media files do not play on this NAS, despite running on the latest firmware, even though the same files work over another DLNA software running on my Mac which is TVMobili. If I compare the LinkStation Duo's DLNA software to TVMobili, I must say that the former is rather rudimentary as it does not even support the basic Pause, Forward and Review buttons on my Samsung Blu-Ray BD-C5500's remote. Once I start playing a supported .avi file, I would have to play it right through to the end as there is no way I can resume from a previously paused location. This is rather annoying so I end up not playing media files off the LinkStation Duo NAS but have to turn on my Mac and run the TVMobili software most of the time, certainly not what I had intended when I bought the LinkStation Duo NAS!