Serviio

Hi All,

New member to the excellent forums here. I've been reading the wealth of information here for days!

I've recently purchased a 2012 Sony Bravia 40" EX640 edge-lit LED Internet TV (USA model). A very nice unit with a great picture except for the edge light bleed which remains even after exchanging several units - but that's another story.

I have successfully set up Serviio through my wireless network (Asus RT-N66u router) to my TV with the latest Serviio 1.1 software. I'm using Windows XP SP3 with an AMD FX-55 processor with 2GB ram. Using the Bravia TV (2012) - US profile in Serviio

Here are some issues I am having:
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1) WHEN TRYING TO PLAY LIVE VIDEO STREAMS: to move the TV cursor (using the TV remote) to highlight the live stream selection on the TV is often delayed for up to 20 seconds or more, like the TV or connection is trying to do something else. When I am finally able to move the TV cursor and highlight the selection and hit enter to play the live stream, sometimes the screen will say "cannot play video file" after the buffering 50% and 100% screens. However after 2 or 3 tries of doing the same thing the live stream will start to play. On occasion however it will reboot my TV. I have all the metadata options turned off in the Serviio software and tried the other Bravia profiles with the same results.

2) Windows XP firewall does not cooperate at all with Serviio. I've bound the IP address in Serviio and opened ports 8895 TCP and 1900 UDP in the firewall but still the only way to get a successful connection is to turn off the Windows XP firewall. If anyone has any suggestions...

3) Finally - I would GREATLY appreciate if someone could help me get the live stream URL for THE MONSTER CHANNEL:
http://www.100ymm.com
I've been pulling my hair out for the last few days with URL sniffers (Wireshark, URLsnooper, etc) trying to find the live feed with no success. The only thing I've been able to get is the last video they played. My son would love to have this on the TV screen instead of the computer.

Much thanks for any help you can give me!

1. Live streams has been always like this, it has buffer and theres alot goes on to play a live stream from your PC to your TV.
With live streams you should just let it play, trying to jump and back on a live stream can be confusing for Serviio and your TV. My Sony TV only crashes if ive put heavy load to it, provide logs of what files your trying to play.

2. Serviio runs on port 23423

3. For live stream help, post here - viewforum.php?f=41

No, 23423 is only used by the console api. 8895 is the DLNA port.

Thank you for your reply Xmantium.

1) I see this is more or less normal and will follow your advice.

2) I opened port 23423 in the firewall and still couldn't connect. I'll sort it out later. It's easier just to turn off the XP firewall when Serviio is running.

3) Will do!