topic How to stream video from PC to SONY Blue Ray player ? in Home Cinema, Projectors & Players

How to stream video from PC to SONY Blue Ray player ?

HUPIKEK — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:54:40 GMT

Hello All

I own a new SONY BDP-S370 Blue Ray player. It is connected to the home LAN trough the USB wireless feature. It works fine, bringing videos from the SONY's server (not sure about the exactly source).

Now, the natural question is: it is possible to connect the BR player to the home PC in order to stream videos from the PC to the BR player ? Can somebody help me how ? Grateful in advance, Robert

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How to stream video from PC to SONY Blue Ray player ?

specialist-convergence — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:54:23 GMT

Hi HUPIKEK

Yes the BDP-S370 can speak to your PC via a DNLA server, there are many available including Windows Media Player 12 whic is part of Windows 7, this can handle almost any format the player can play.

If you wish to stream HD content then a Server with transcoding functions would be best as it will ensure the correct profile of stream is passed to your Network, regardless of the file type on the computer.

How to stream video from PC to SONY Blue Ray player ?

HUPIKEK — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:24:42 GMT

Hello

Thanks for yr. prompt answer. It sounds good. Can you pls. send a more detailed description how to establish the logical connection between the PC and the SONY BDP-S370 ? I understand the first step is to define Shared a partition in the PC. What the next steps ?

Best Regards, Robert

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specialist-convergence — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:16:19 GMT

Hi the best way to share content from your PC would be via a Media Server, there are many, if you have Windows 7 then it has Media Player 12, in order to set up Media Player follow the link below http://www.ehow.com/how_5216357_stream-video-windows-media-player.html

I would not recommend a shared folder, you would have problems with incompatible files which is resolved with relative ease by transcoding any unsupported format.

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Romi-Sony — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:22:45 GMT

And how does it work when using WMP11 and Vista?

How to stream video from PC to SONY Blue Ray player ?

Catmambo — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:52:25 GMT

I hear very good things about Mezzmo

http://www.conceiva.com/products/mezzmo/faqs.asp

Thanks

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ALBE72 — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:33:57 GMT

With WMP11 you cannot share avi or divx file. However if you don't have W7and WMP12 , you can use, as I am doing, Wild Media Server for example.

Ciao,

ALBE72

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Ballcocks — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 19:34:11 GMT

Use PS3 media server, Google it, it is free, works to Bravia. It's amazing how Microsoft cant get WMP working.

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HUPIKEK — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 09:23:31 GMT

Hi Ballcocks

Thanks for yr. recomandation concerning the PS3 Media Server.

Meantime I tryied it by installing it. The results were poor. I achieved the wireless connection between the PC and the SONY BR player. But every video file i tryied to stream/play appeared with the mention "corrupt file". I wonder if it requests the Play Station 3 as mandatory ?

Anyway, I can recommend to you and to others, another application, MEZZMO v. 2.1.11.0.

Unlike the WMP v. 12 under the WIN 7, it makes the expected from it. It connects wireless smoothly and streams / plays the MPG files w/o jumps, pauses and so on. It has a friendly user interface which makes easy the initial setup, which will serve as template for every operation. It has also more setup options than the WMP and in this way it's possible to operate it in more situations. You can dowload the Mezzmo trough the Google or by reading the other answers of one guy who participated to this SONY BRP forum.

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peedee — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:24:48 GMT

My PC is running XP Home and Windows Media Player 11 and my BDV E370 is connected to my network via a LAN cable. The E370 acesses the internet fine but I cannot stream anything from my PC to the E370. I understand Windows Media Player 11 is DNLA compatible but when I set it up for Media Sharing, including opening up the required ports on the McAfee firewall, the E370 is not visible to the Media Player. The PC (DNLA server) does not appear on the E370 either when I use the update server connections option on the E370.

According to the Sony web site, I am running the latest software version on the E370. My router is a Linksys BEFSR41

Any help to solve the problem will be much appreciated.

peedee

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Catmambo — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:01:50 GMT

Have you tried the software mentioned in the previous posts? Windows Media Player isn't great for this kind of job.

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peedee — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:28:41 GMT

No but I will have alook at it. Is there an incompatibility with the E370 software because I have also tried it with my laptop running Windows 7 and WMP12 with the same result ? If so should Sony not be looking at this?

peedee

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Catmambo — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:20:27 GMT

Its just there are far better media streamers both free and paid than Windows Media Player. It just so happens that it happens to be the default media player on all new PC's - but that doesn't necessarily mean its the most suitable for all tasks. Mezzmo seems to get very highly rated on the boards here.

thanks

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peedee — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:01:16 GMT

Well I downloaded the latest trial version of Mezzmo and followed all their instructions and although I can manually set up Mezzmo to see my E370, Mezzmo still does not appear on the E370. Does the E370 latest firmware version M04R708 actually support DLNA? Has anyone got streaming to an E370 to work?

I have even switched the firewall off so don't know what more I can do!

peedee

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gofrost — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:43:53 GMT

if you have mcafee total protection make sure that you havn't marked E370 as an intruder as it will block any connection (home defensive network)

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Catmambo — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:57:04 GMT

Yes, the BDP-S370 has supported DLNA since launch. I've certainly been using it to stream content for the last six months or so as have many others.

I think there must be a glitch in your network setup somewhere as normally the content server will just appear as an icon under the video tab. If its not appeared then the Blu-ray player can't see the server for one of many reasons. As the software and player are known to work well together, the issue must lie somewhere in your particular setup I think.

Do the other video services work? Can you access the iPlayer and Youtube ok?

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HUPIKEK — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:21:07 GMT

Hello peedee

I'm using the Mezzmo (purchased the licence - it worths).

As a first step you have to open the SONY BDP (to be ON). In this statement the Mezzmo has to recognize it as a part of your LAN .

Only in the recognized situation you can setup the Mezzmo with your specific data, as SONY PAL / NTSC , and so on. The Mezmo working smoothly on MPG files, on HD as AVCHD it pauses some time for a while and continues.

If you cannot operate as described by me, you have a LAN communication problem. By the way, i'm operating wireless, trough a USB feature connected at the back of the player.

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peedee — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:59:19 GMT

Thanks for the confirmation that there is no incompatibility with these products. I think I have sorted it, at last. I can now see the Sony BDP in the WMP sharing window. It was a router problem, UPnP had to be enabled. I had tried this before but without success and think the addition problem was I needed to restart the router once I had changed the settings. I have set it up to share music, pictures and video. What should I be seeing on the BDP Home screen and should I now be able to see a connected server in the Network settings.

My brain hurts and the better half of the family has control of the TV for the evening so have to leave it until tomorrow.

peedee

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Catmambo — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:49:27 GMT

Good work fella

Basically now you will see the PC Server listed under the various tabs. In the PC servering software you'll need to specify which directories you want to share. Then when you want to stream a video, select the server name under the video tab and it should show you the correct directory from where you can choose the video..

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alexure — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 10:38:42 GMT

I'm able to stream from my PC to the bdp-370, but am perplexed as to how to play the music files in the order they appear on the album, and on WMP. As it is they play in alphabetical order. Does anyone know if I need to tweak WMP, or would another media player do what I want?

Thanks