blu-ray player with DLNA that lets you choose soundtrack...

Hi,

Hoping for some advice.

My samsung TV ( UN55d6050 ) lets me choose from available soundtracks when playing media from serviio via DLNA. I bought a Samsung Blu-Ray player ( bd-d5300) and it chooses the first available soundtrack form DLNA based content, with no option to choose other available soundtrack. ( the bd-5300 also will not play numerous files that the TV does play).

Can anyone recommend a blu ray player ( not necessarily Samsung) that will offer soundtrack choice like the TV does?

As an aside, I would just use the TV, but its optical digital out does not pass through HD audio, and it defaults to downsampled stereo PCM, meaning I have to take an extra step of going into the TV's preferences, and setting the audio out to DTS or Dolby by hand for each media file I play.

Thanks for any input you might offer!


aregularjoe

[Cerberus]

i dont know of any samsung BD-Players that will allow this, some of the TV do but which ones im unsure of.

As I said, it does not have to be Samsung. I'm hoping someone will steer me towards a Blu-Ray player that has support for selecting form available soundtracks via DLNA.

[patters]

Sony BD players only allow audio track selection from MKV (Europe and Canada regions only), but their MKV playback has other issues so I wouldn't recommend it as a solution (see the sticky in the Sony subforum). The Serviio profile remuxes to M2TS to get around those issues.

I think audio track selection preference at the server end is a pretty big feature that Serviio still lacks (after that there won't be much left to improve!). I recently made a profile to transcode all audio to AC3 so I could use my surround processing gaming headphones but I soon discovered that many of my movies have a 2 channel audio track in addition to the 5.1 channel - and Serviio kept choosing the 2 channel one.

It's already logged as a request in the issue tracker:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1104&hilit=audio+track
https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/i ... ection-for