[SOLVED] av sync trouble when streaming rss feeds to samsung

ok...
i installed serviio to my macbookpro and, low and behold, same issue! this raises the question for me as to whether this is

a) a router settings issue
b) samsung tv
c) the use of an ssd drive (both machines share this in common).

in general, the picture quality of streaming video is better coming from the macbook which is less powerful - 2.4 ghz core 2 duo with 4 ghz of 1067 ddr3 ram- AND wireless. i've only added crackle and hulu to the macbook. crackle plays effortlessly. there's a reason mac users have more fun. hulu has the same issues with the time stuck at 0.

i hope this is useful for someone. if anyone has insights about hardware configuration, i'd appreciate it.

here are some more things i tried in the hopes that i might see some remedy to the stuttering / sync problems that occur with certain streaming feeds. this does not seem to be limited to linux.

1. changed hard drive settings from ahci to ide in my desktop os bios. no change.
2. changed network information of the samsung tv to a manually entered static ip address from 'auto'. no change.
3. changed router settings such as unticking QoS and upnp in tomato usb. no change.
4. cycled the cable modem and router again. no change

what i have seen repeated across two systems - my main linux desktop and mac laptop -is that rss streams linked to cbs, you tube and especially hulu, when played, stay at 00:00:00 when being played even if they are several minutes in. they do not always fall out of synch in identical spots but with the exception of most of my you tube feeds they all do go out of sync. by contrast, crackle, vimeo and blip share none of these problems and the tv shows time passing as it should.

if this is not a handshake error, is it related to how flash is now being implemented by some content providers? Or am I missing some obvious 'local' issue relative to hardware configuration? Or are there known issues in this version of serviio?

i love the serviio project but at this point i guess i may have to throw in the towel with streaming all rss feeds. thanks again to jabrown and moltra for their input. i'd love to hear from some of the other bright minds invested in seeing serviio work.

here are some more things i tried in the hopes that i might see some remedy to the stuttering / sync problems that occur with certain streaming feeds. this does not seem to be limited to linux.

1. changed hard drive settings from ahci to ide in my desktop os bios. no change.
2. changed network information of the samsung tv to a manually entered static ip address from 'auto'. no change.
3. changed router settings such as unticking QoS and upnp in tomato usb. no change.
4. cycled the cable modem and router again. no change

what i have seen repeated across two systems - my main linux desktop and mac laptop -is that rss streams linked to cbs, you tube and especially hulu, when played, stay at 00:00:00 when being played even if they are several minutes in. they do not always fall out of synch in identical spots but with the exception of most of my you tube feeds they all do go out of sync. by contrast, crackle, vimeo and blip share none of these problems and the tv shows time passing as it should.

if this is not a handshake error, is it related to how flash is now being implemented by some content providers? Or am I missing some obvious 'local' issue relative to hardware configuration? Or are there known issues in this version of serviio?

i love the serviio project but at this point i guess i may have to throw in the towel with streaming all rss feeds. thanks again to jabrown and moltra for their input. i'd love to hear from some of the other bright minds invested in seeing serviio work.

i did a clean install of mint 12 on a scorpio black hd and step by step reinstalled everything. still have the same problem. obviously it has nothing to do with the ssd drive. i'll keep posting my efforts. hopefully this info is useful to someone and these posts aren't in vain.

at this point, i think there must be something with the router configuration or an issue with samsung b series tvs. if there is any info that will be helpful to developers that i'm not providing, please let me know. i'd really like to see this project work, not just for our home, but for everyone. my hunch is that if one person is running into an issue someone else has or is bound to.

ok. reflashed the router with linksys stock firmware. no improvement. it doesn't seem to be the router.

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ok. reflashed the router with linksys stock firmware. no improvement. it doesn't seem to be the router.

Can you test the issue on another device. It appears that it is a samsung TV correct? Do you have anything else that is around that can play dlna. PS3? XBOX? heck even a smartphone, I use a droid with the Eminent player. Just to see if the problem persists on all devices. If it does not you can stop your search and blame your TV.

ok. reflashed the router with linksys stock firmware. no improvement. it doesn't seem to be the router.

Can you test the issue on another device. It appears that it is a samsung TV correct? Do you have anything else that is around that can play dlna. PS3? XBOX? heck even a smartphone, I use a droid with the Eminent player. Just to see if the problem persists on all devices. If it does not you can stop your search and blame your TV.

streaming from my desktop to a laptop and playing on vlc handles this stuff fine as far as i can tell though even on vlc the time sits at 00:00.i'm going to assume that it's the tv . i will try my iphone as well just to be sure.

solved with a tweak to the profile.xml file.
see link: viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2485