Sat Feb 09, 2019 10:57 pm by atc98092
OK, it appears that Samsung calls this their Q900R series, so I was looking at the correct manual. I notice the manual has no reference to DLNA support, which doesn't surprise me. Samsung's DLNA support has never been the greatest, and they seem to be letting it slide more with every model.
So, the main issue we need to discover is what audio and video codes are in your media. The chart in the manual is specific to USB playback, which may or may not match what it's capable of via DLNA. But we'll stick with what the manual says for now. For audio, it supports DD, DD+, LPCM, AAC, HE-AAC, WMA, MP3, AC-4, G.711 and OPUS. I don't even know what those last three are. For containers, it supports all the obvious ones: AVI, MKV, ASF, 3GP, MOV, FLV, VRO, VOB, PS, TS and SVAF. Again a couple I don't recognize. It also appears to support a wide range of video codecs.
So, most likely we're running into audio issues, or you have some oddball codec. See the link in my sig and get the media information for videos that will not play, and then any that will play. We need to see what works and what doesn't. Since it's a 4K TV, it should be able to handle high video bitrates, so throttling the bitrate shouldn't be necessary. If your files have DTS, that's most likely the culprit. However, my Samsung will usually play a supported video and just have no sound of the audio isn't supported. But again, Samsung is terrible with their DLNA support, so hard to say.
My personal opinion: if you aren't concerned with lossless audio playback (not using an AVR for your sound), then either a Roku Premiere or Fire TV Stick 4K offers 4K video support and both play well with DLNA (I believe Roku does better, but don't have current experience with the Fire TV). Either of them are under $50. I bought a Premiere last week for $30 at Fred Meyer (local Kroger store). If you want your lossless audio (Dolby TrueHD/Atmos, DTS Master Audio:X) then you need an AVR for the audio and an Nvidia Shield for your player.
Dan
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