Media Play and DLNA - Revision history

Juzis28 at 13:27, 21 January 2013

2013-01-21T13:27:41Z

Juzis28: /* Mediatomb */ subtitles

2012-08-27T15:40:26Z

‎Mediatomb: subtitles

Zodiac.69 at 08:17, 7 May 2012

2012-05-07T08:17:11Z

Zodiac.69 at 07:54, 7 May 2012

2012-05-07T07:54:07Z

Zodiac.69 at 10:48, 26 April 2012

2012-04-26T10:48:43Z

Zodiac.69 at 10:47, 26 April 2012

2012-04-26T10:47:24Z

Steltek: Adding info on MythTV and minidlna with D6500 series.

2011-07-14T16:39:59Z

Adding info on MythTV and minidlna with D6500 series.

Decix: /* DLNA */

2011-02-04T10:21:02Z

‎DLNA

Cus1: /* DLNA */

2009-10-09T12:55:25Z

‎DLNA

Cus1: /* DLNA */

2009-10-09T12:54:57Z

‎DLNA

← Older revision		Revision as of 13:27, 21 January 2013
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	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3014026&group_id=129766&atid=715782		http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3014026&group_id=129766&atid=715782
	Tested (reported) from UExx5000.		Tested (reported) from UExx5000.
		+	==Controlling Samsung TV adjustments==
		+
		+	Samsung TV’s (series D and probably series C) are equipped with some feature called Rendering Control Service. It is simply network protocol useful to control some parameters related to audio and video options (e.g. volume level, brightness etc).
		+
		+	Protocol is based on HTTP and XML technology. Requests are sent by TCP port 52235 and looks like:
		+	<pre>
		+	POST /upnp/control/RenderingControl1 HTTP/1.1
		+	Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8
		+	SOAPACTION: "SoapAction:urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1#GetVolume"
		+	Cache-Control: no-cache
		+	Host: 192.168.1.102:52235
		+	Content-Length: 354
		+	Connection: Close
		+
		+	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
		+	<s:Envelope s:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
		+	<s:Body>
		+	<ns0:GetVolume xmlns:ns0="urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1">
		+	<InstanceID>0</InstanceID>
		+	<Channel>Master</Channel>
		+	</ns0:GetVolume>
		+	</s:Body>
		+	</s:Envelope>
		+	</pre>
		+	SOAPACTION contains action name (GetVolume), rest of this string is constant. Host IP is, of course, our device address. Content-Length define payload data length (XML data). Rest of the headers above is rather self-explanatory.
		+
		+	Header lines are separated by two bytes CR+LF (carriage return 0x0D followed by new line symbol 0x0A). Between headers and payload there is one extra empty line – CR+LF+CR+LF.
		+
		+	XML data is almost entirely predefined constant. Only <ns0:Getvolume …>…</ns0:GetVolume> are customizable. GetVolume is action name and the subtags (InstanceID, Channel) are parameters with determined values. List of all valid actions, values and parameters are covered in http://upnp.org/specs/av/UPnP-av-RenderingControl-v1-Service.pdf, but not all described functions are working on real TV.
		+	TV response will be similar to request:
		+	<pre>
		+	HTTP/1.1 200 OK
		+	CONTENT-LENGTH: 289
		+	CONTENT-TYPE: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
		+	DATE: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 03:25:13 GMT
		+	EXT:
		+	SERVER: Linux/9.0 UPnP/1.0 PROTOTYPE/1.0
		+
		+	<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" s:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding
		+	/"><s:Body><u:GetVolumeResponse xmlns:u="urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1"><CurrentVolume>6</CurrentVolume>
		+	</u:GetVolumeResponse></s:Body></s:Envelope>
		+	</pre>
		+	We can of course set up parameters too. E.g. it is possible to set volume:
		+	<pre>
		+	POST /upnp/control/RenderingControl1 HTTP/1.1
		+	Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8
		+	SOAPACTION: "SoapAction:urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1#SetVolume"
		+	Cache-Control: no-cache
		+	Host: 192.168.1.102:52235
		+	Content-Length: 389
		+	Connection: Close
		+
		+	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
		+	<s:Envelope s:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
		+	<s:Body>
		+	<ns0:SetVolume xmlns:ns0="urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:RenderingControl:1">
		+	<InstanceID>0</InstanceID>
		+	<Channel>Master</Channel>
		+	<InstanceID>0</InstanceID>
		+	<DesiredVolume>69</DesiredVolume>
		+	</ns0:SetVolume>
		+	</s:Body>
		+	</s:Envelope>
		+	</pre>
		+
		+	[http://sc0ty.pl/2012/02/controlling-samsung-tv-adjustments/ Original article] by sc0ty.pl

← Older revision		Revision as of 15:40, 27 August 2012
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	Extend the protocol info in the server section.		Extend the protocol info in the server section.
	<protocolInfo extend="yes"/>		<protocolInfo extend="yes"/>
		+
		+	'''Add subtitles support:'''<br>
		+	<br>
		+	Use latest patch for mediatomb <br>
		+	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3014026&group_id=129766&atid=715782
		+	Tested (reported) from UExx5000.

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 * uShare - Unsupported file format on every video file
 * minidlna - Works with C650, D6500 and HT-C5xxx series.
-* Plex - Works on C650 and HT-C5xxx Series.
+* Plex - Works on C650 and HT-C5xxx Series.[http://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php5/Samsung_Apps_widgets_list#Plex]
 * MythTV - Built-in UPnP server works with D6500 series (even DVB-S/DVB-S2 recordings can be streamed).

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 * uShare - Unsupported file format on every video file
 * minidlna - Works with C650, D6500 and HT-C5xxx series.
 * MythTV - Built-in UPnP server works with D6500 series (even DVB-S/DVB-S2 recordings can be streamed).

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 * Mediatomb - By default, unsupported file format on every video file. However it can be configured to support every file the PC Share Manager supports (even with FF, PAUSE and REWIND support where the PC Share Manager would support it), except the subtitles.
 * uShare - Unsupported file format on every video file
-* minidlna - Works with C650 and D6500 series.
+* minidlna - Works with C650, D6500 and HT-C5xxx series.
 * MythTV - Built-in UPnP server works with D6500 series (even DVB-S/DVB-S2 recordings can be streamed).

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 * CyberLinkMediaServer - no subtitles, no pausing, beside this everything works
 * Asset - only audio
 Linux:

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 == DLNA ==
 DLNA media play has stricter limitations than USB media play. This is significant reason for the firmware modifications to use NFS or SMB/CIFS (which should have the same limitations as USB media play). These limitations of DLNA include the following:
-* You can't use features like FWD, RWD, PAUSE with some DLNA servers, and even with the Samsung PC Share Manager, sometimes (depending on media type and file size) some these functions are not available.
+* You can't use features like FWD, RWD, PAUSE with some DLNA servers, and even with the Samsung PC Share Manager, sometimes (depending on media type and file size) some of these functions are not available.
 * With some DLNA servers, some codecs are not supported when using DLNA but work fine via USB/NFS.
 * You can't select the audio channel of a multi-language media file with DLNA playback.

← Older revision		Revision as of 12:54, 9 October 2009
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	== DLNA ==		== DLNA ==
		+	DLNA media play has stricter limitations than USB media play. This is significant reason for the firmware modifications to use NFS or SMB/CIFS (which should have the same limitations as USB media play). These limitations of DLNA include the following:
		+	* You can't use features like FWD, RWD, PAUSE with some DLNA servers, and even with the Samsung PC Share Manager, sometimes (depending on media type and file size) some these functions are not available.
		+	* With some DLNA servers, some codecs are not supported when using DLNA but work fine via USB/NFS.
		+	* You can't select the audio channel of a multi-language media file with DLNA playback.
		+
	Beside the Samsung software (Samsung PC Share Manager), you can also use the open source DLNA servers like uShare or Mediathomb. These can also be used on Mac OS X or Linux. On OSX, they're hard to install because you need to compile them by yourself. Out of the box, none of the media servers below (other than Samsung PC Share Manager) work 100% well. Below are tested programs with comments on current problems, maybe someone can provide some resolutions, and maybe it will help somebody.		Beside the Samsung software (Samsung PC Share Manager), you can also use the open source DLNA servers like uShare or Mediathomb. These can also be used on Mac OS X or Linux. On OSX, they're hard to install because you need to compile them by yourself. Out of the box, none of the media servers below (other than Samsung PC Share Manager) work 100% well. Below are tested programs with comments on current problems, maybe someone can provide some resolutions, and maybe it will help somebody.