Hi, I purchased the Netgear NV+V2 NAS, I have copied a few MKV's and M2TS files to test it works via my Sony BDP 490, now the MKV files wont play, interestingly these files show up as MPEG on the blu-ray player via dlna, which makes no sense since its a MKV File.Anyone else had this issue? 5.3.5 is the firmware version, I downgraded it when the MKV's didn't play.Edit: I've just put the same mkv's on a external hard drive and connected them upto the blu-ray player directly and its showing up as MKV and plays fine. The same files play fine from my cheap D link DNS320 NAS.

The playback issue is almost certainly in readydlna. Do you know if the mkv uses header compression?It shows up as mpeg because readydlna is exporting them as mpeg - so that in itself is not the problem.

StephenB wrote:The playback issue is almost certainly in readydlna. Do you know if the mkv uses header compression?It shows up as mpeg because readydlna is exporting them as mpeg - so that in itself is not the problem.I have no idea sorry. Would this work ?http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46830&p=274483I'm now back on the latest firmware.

I am not sure if that will work, the thread is pretty old.You could try remuxing the MKV with the current version of mvkmerge GUI. This is part of the mkvtoolnix package; there is a link here: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVtoolnixGo into options and check "disable header compression removal for audio and video tracks by default".

StephenB wrote:I am not sure if that will work, the thread is pretty old.You could try remuxing the MKV with the current version of mvkmerge GUI. This is part of the mkvtoolnix package; there is a link here: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MKVtoolnixGo into options and check "disable header compression removal for audio and video tracks by default".Thanks, I'll give that a go, I have also emailed netgear about this. Hopefully they will sort it.Edit: that didn't work, here's the settings I used:set compression to none for the audio aswell.

Hello All,Over on AVSforums http://www.avsforum.com/t/1386151/official-2012-sony-bdp-s790-thread/2190 we were havving the same problems with minidlna and sony mkv file streaming.Long story short: Here is the fix to the code needed http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/minidlna-fix-sony-bdp-sx90.diffThank the guys over here for it: https://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna/forums/forum/879957/topic/5470549 Don't know who recompiles firmware with Netgear over here, but its a REALLY simple fix and will solve all your problems.Hope this helps. Please note I am not a programmer or tech support but merely a frustrated end user spreading the good word.I can confirm the patch works and mkv's stream natively to my Sony s790 bdp

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Zaim
Aspirant
Feb 20, 2013
Still waiting for Netgear to sort this, so far they have done nothing.
ihartley
Tutor
Feb 21, 2013
I thought ReadyDLNA *was* minidlna. So you should be able to download the latest from sourceforge and compile on your box. There is enough info around to show what you need to install via apt-get, if the binaries are not already available somewhere.

Zaim

Aspirant

Mar 08, 2013

ihartley wrote:
I thought ReadyDLNA *was* minidlna. So you should be able to download the latest from sourceforge and compile on your box. There is enough info around to show what you need to install via apt-get, if the binaries are not already available somewhere.

ihartley wrote:
I thought ReadyDLNA was minidlna. So you should be able to download the latest from sourceforge and compile on your box. There is enough info around to show what you need to install via apt-get, if the binaries are not already available somewhere.

Hmm, well I'm not so sure I want to go ahead and do it myself without knowing exactly if it'll work or wreck something.

I'm still waiting for netgear support on this, nothing has happened in the last 3 months. :shock:

I certainly won't be buying Netgear products again, this is getting beyond a joke now. I should have kept my D-Link DNS 320's, had no issue's with them. :(

Zaim
Aspirant
Mar 30, 2013
Thought I'd provide a update, netgear finally listened to me and have now escalated the request for applying the Fix.

"This is in reference with your request for the recompilation in your concern for the ReadyNAS NV+ v2. Please be informed, that your case is now escalated accordingly."
Zaim
Aspirant
May 07, 2013
For anyone who's interested, Netgear finally released a addon which fixes this issue, I can now stream MKV's to my Sony Blu-ray player no problems what so ever.

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