Serviio

I have a Sony KDL40W5500U
And it is very picky as to what it will play, as per another ongoing thread in this forum.

However I would like to discuss rewind and fast forward + being able to select a point in the video using a "slider".
The Sony remote had fast forward and rewind buttons.
It also has a ring on the remote and pressing left or right does rewind/fast forward.
I recently discovered if you press left (or right) down and hold it down then a slider bar pops up and you can instantly slide to what ever point in the video you want.

Out of the various media servers I have tried the only one where this seems to fully work is (I hate to say it) the media server on my Windows 7 laptop, cough cough spit spit.
Others the ff/rewind partially works but the slider rarely works. With Serviio when I hold the ring down instead of a slider I get a message to the effect of function not available.

Also does the type of video affect the functionality some formats don't seem to want to ff/rewind ( not just with Sony ).

I am not complaining just wanting some feed back from users !

Thanks
Jim

Yes, but I do not remember which format supports FW (with Windows Media Sever, when you press "i" remote button, what are information displayed )

I will try it tonight.
Thanks Jim

Hmmm
Tried Sony this morning against windows 7. Once I drilled down through the folders it said no items available or something similar.
It worked not long ago !!
Sony seemed very sluggish, occasionally I need to unplug it and start it up again.
It will be weekend now before I get chance again.
Thanks
Jim

Does the network connection are hardwired or "Wified" ?
If the file was transcoded, sometimes you have to wait that ffmpeg's process has finished, to be allowed to Fast Forward anywhere on all the movie timeline.

Connection is wifi

File detail quoted by Sony using win7 as media server

MPEG2 720x480