Please can any of you help me understand some of the basics of DLNA so I can work out why I've got some lip sync problems.
To start, my set up is:
- Panasonic BDT110 Blue Ray player
- Samsung 46" 7000 series LED TV connected to the BDT110 via HMDI
- A 10yr old Yamaha RX-V620RDS connected to the BDT110 via optical
Ive disabled the HDMI audio output from the BDT110 and have determined that I need to set an 80ms audio delay to achieve lip sync when viewing BluRays. (Im assuming that I need this to take into account video processing delays through the Samsung TV - is this correct?).
Now to the DLNA bit. I have a Windows XP PC and Ive connected the BTD110 via a network cable to a Netgear Broadband Rx and Router. It should be noted that I really only want to use the DLNA function to view video files.
Ive tried a few of DLNA servers including Samsungs Allshare (extremely bloated and buggy) and Twonky (still appears bloated). Ive ended up using Serviio which looks like it provides the basics that I need (the server functions).
Now the problem is that Im getting lip sync problems when viewing video files via the BDT110 (the lip sync problem was the same between Twonky and Serviio). Now, what I dont understand is why would there be different lip syncs when playing video files and BluRays through the BDT110.
It should be noted that I dont have lip sync problems if I view the video files on the PC with Media Player.
This leads to a number of questions
What role does the DLNA server play when viewing video files? Does it just stream the raw mpeg data to the BDT110 or does it do any decoding/encoding stuff that could introduce lip sync problems?
Could there be different lip sync timings depending on the video file encoding method?
I know there are loads of threads related to lip sync probems so aplogies if this is covered elsewhere.
By the way, and just as an observation, Ive tried using the Smart TV function of the Samsung TV (having connected it to my network via a cable) but found that the file viewing functions to be very poor you cant fast-forward or rewind for example.
To start, my set up is:
- Panasonic BDT110 Blue Ray player
- Samsung 46" 7000 series LED TV connected to the BDT110 via HMDI
- A 10yr old Yamaha RX-V620RDS connected to the BDT110 via optical
Ive disabled the HDMI audio output from the BDT110 and have determined that I need to set an 80ms audio delay to achieve lip sync when viewing BluRays. (Im assuming that I need this to take into account video processing delays through the Samsung TV - is this correct?).
Now to the DLNA bit. I have a Windows XP PC and Ive connected the BTD110 via a network cable to a Netgear Broadband Rx and Router. It should be noted that I really only want to use the DLNA function to view video files.
Ive tried a few of DLNA servers including Samsungs Allshare (extremely bloated and buggy) and Twonky (still appears bloated). Ive ended up using Serviio which looks like it provides the basics that I need (the server functions).
Now the problem is that Im getting lip sync problems when viewing video files via the BDT110 (the lip sync problem was the same between Twonky and Serviio). Now, what I dont understand is why would there be different lip syncs when playing video files and BluRays through the BDT110.
It should be noted that I dont have lip sync problems if I view the video files on the PC with Media Player.
This leads to a number of questions
What role does the DLNA server play when viewing video files? Does it just stream the raw mpeg data to the BDT110 or does it do any decoding/encoding stuff that could introduce lip sync problems?
Could there be different lip sync timings depending on the video file encoding method?
I know there are loads of threads related to lip sync probems so aplogies if this is covered elsewhere.
By the way, and just as an observation, Ive tried using the Smart TV function of the Samsung TV (having connected it to my network via a cable) but found that the file viewing functions to be very poor you cant fast-forward or rewind for example.