BTT590 mkv playback issues
Done a fair bit of searching, but sure you'll be happy to hear I'm another new kid to serviio and dlna gubbins in general, so may well be this is one of those things that's been covered before. Searches would suggest they've not been though, so advance apologies if I've messed up.
Anyway, got a Panasonic BTT590. Running Serviio on a mac running up to date snow leopard. Seems to bs defaulting to the Panasonic Vieria (2010) profile and doesn't play anything if I try any of the other two viera profiles I see.
So things almost work. Except mostly they don't. Either things don't work at all, or they do sometimes. When they do, they tend to not work very well.
By things, I'm talking about playing MKV files. With a mixture of 6.1 and 2ch sound in them. Main issue seems to be because it will only play these files by transcoding. I've tried the same files as m4vs and re encoded mkvs with header compression off. Same deal. As soon as I turn transcoding off, nothing works. Which would be fine, except everything's stuttering after a couple of minutes.
So questions/help on; Playing MKV's without transcoding? Can I do that? My device plays everything fine in all guises if I put files on ot a USB stick, so the device can play everything fine, this is all just over dlna, which was part of the reason I bought the system.
Is this just an old profile thing?
Can you really only play mkv's with transcoding on?
thanks in advance and all that.