All my movies are on my HTPC. I use XBMC. I am currently staying in a temporary rented house where I have space constraints because of which the HTPC is in one room and TV is in one of the bedroom. Hence I cannot connect the HTPC directly to the TV using HDMI or VGA cable.
1. My HTPC is in the living room connected to a stereo amp. I use Apple Airport express to do PPPOE on a you telecom router which is at one end of the living room. The HTPC's ethernet port is connected to another Airport Router which participates in WDS and has the ethernet port bridged. Hence the HTPC is theoritically on a wireless N network
2. My TV (Panasonic P65VT30d) which has DLNA enabled is in my bedroom. I have another Airport Express in the bedroom powerd on to act as a repeater. So the wireless signal is excellent even in the bedroom. The TV has a wireless N dongle connected to the same wi-fi network as the HTPC
3. I have a apple tv 1080p with airplay enabled connected to HDMI1 port of the TV. This Apple tv connects to the networking using wifi.
4. I have downloaded the air video server on IPAD and Viera App on my android tablet. The android viera app works flawlessly as a remote. but.....
I am able to play movies flawlessly on the Apple TV, without any jerks or stutters, using the airvideo app on ipad.
On the TV, XBMC gets discovered using DLNA. But you just cannot play any movie smoothly. The experience is pathetic.
Even the way youtube plays on Apple TV far much better than Viera Tools. I also noticed that it take time for the Photos (over the wifi network) to display on the TV. After one has experienced Apple TV, the so called smart features of Panasonic Viera can be termed as some childish attempts at coding. Is anyone else using the Viera Tools on the TV with good user experience?
So question is
Is Panasonic Viera DLNA the culprit or it could be something to do with XBMC. I don't think the problem is with bandwidth as Apple TV does a much better job streaming the same content from the PC to the TV.
Has anyone enabled UPNP on XBMC and played the content on your PC to the TV?
1. My HTPC is in the living room connected to a stereo amp. I use Apple Airport express to do PPPOE on a you telecom router which is at one end of the living room. The HTPC's ethernet port is connected to another Airport Router which participates in WDS and has the ethernet port bridged. Hence the HTPC is theoritically on a wireless N network
2. My TV (Panasonic P65VT30d) which has DLNA enabled is in my bedroom. I have another Airport Express in the bedroom powerd on to act as a repeater. So the wireless signal is excellent even in the bedroom. The TV has a wireless N dongle connected to the same wi-fi network as the HTPC
3. I have a apple tv 1080p with airplay enabled connected to HDMI1 port of the TV. This Apple tv connects to the networking using wifi.
4. I have downloaded the air video server on IPAD and Viera App on my android tablet. The android viera app works flawlessly as a remote. but.....
I am able to play movies flawlessly on the Apple TV, without any jerks or stutters, using the airvideo app on ipad.
On the TV, XBMC gets discovered using DLNA. But you just cannot play any movie smoothly. The experience is pathetic.
Even the way youtube plays on Apple TV far much better than Viera Tools. I also noticed that it take time for the Photos (over the wifi network) to display on the TV. After one has experienced Apple TV, the so called smart features of Panasonic Viera can be termed as some childish attempts at coding. Is anyone else using the Viera Tools on the TV with good user experience?
So question is
Is Panasonic Viera DLNA the culprit or it could be something to do with XBMC. I don't think the problem is with bandwidth as Apple TV does a much better job streaming the same content from the PC to the TV.
Has anyone enabled UPNP on XBMC and played the content on your PC to the TV?
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