Serviio

Hi,

I've just got a Sony Bravia TV and have been running a series of tests to decide which DLNA server to use. I've decided to use Serviio.

Now I want to clean up my PC of stuff that's accumulated during my tests. Questions are:

1. Can I demolish Windows Media Player? If not why not? The reason for the question is this ...

Windows Media Player was included in the tests, I had to turn on Indexing which spent about 12 hours to build the indexes.

I want to save the space that the WMP library /indexing created and stop the indexing service. Am I correct in thinking that Serviio builds its own library which is independent of Windows Indexing and WMP?

I would probably like to uninstall WMP and do all my viewing on the TV.

2. Serviio appears in the WMP tree. How did it get there, and do I need it there if I'm just using Serviio?

3. My TV is a Sony Bravia W905. I think I understand Transcoding, and I've got it enabled. However, I can't see where Serviio is told to transcode in line with the capabilities of my W905. Or does it magically identify it from the Renderer List?

4. Helped by Transcoding, some of my AVIs play, whereas others aren't recognised by the TV player. Is this a known issue, and how would I correct it?

Thanks for your help.

1. If you can, uninstall WMP. I'm not sure if it's doable though, it might be a part of the OS. In any case, you should probably ask on another forum, one that deals with hacking Windows

2. It's normal, WMP looks for DLNA servers. No need for WMP.

3. It's based on profiles, and your W905 is probably detected and assigned a Sony profile, which includes all the rules for transcoding.

4. viewtopic.php?f=5&t=38 and viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1123

Thank you!