MP4 AVC question

Does your TV set recognise mp4? as some devices do not there is some good info about this in this link http://www.which.co.uk/technology/tv-and-dvd/guides/what-is-dlna/

As I already said, yes the TV does MP4 just fine. Played with the Windows built-in DLNA server, just not via ReadyNAS.

Sorry missed that bit.

Windows 7 DLNA transcodes media, while ReadyDLNA does not. So it is quite possible that the Philips doesn't support AVC (or possibly the aac codec).

Could be worth trying a MKV with AVC and aac as a test.

Windows 7 DLNA is not transcoding anything on my machine (CPU too low). The Philips is capable of playing AVC/AAC just fine, the file plays when put on a USB stick and directly attached to the Philipls.
Of course, being able to play a directly attached file has no relation to the same capability via DLNA on the TV. Hence I'll test the MKV container with AAC.

-Jan

OLBJAN what was the results of testing MKV ?

Just completed the test. Same file, transcribed to MKV using mkvmerge plays perfectly. Video is MP4 AVC, audio is AAC.

-Jan

It does not surprise me i get problems playing back mp4 on my media player, its supposed to play them but on playback they are distorted so i do the same strip the video and audio streams out with yamb, and merge them into mkv with mkvmerge, i think it must be how the mp4 wrapper is handled that cause's problems.

It's only with mp4 avc files that I see this behavior from the ready as. Non-avc plays fine. Hence my thinking this is a readydlna issue.