Sony SMP-N100 Media Player

[NX3]

I've got hold of one of these now, its a sort of cross between a 2010 Bravia bluray player and tv. It does more than the 2010 series tvs but has a few quirks.

Initial results using Serviio v6.0

Its recognised by its render name which you can set on the device but default is "Media Player" and get the generic dlna profile assigned to it. Using this mpeg1, mpeg2, avi (xvid and divx) played and unlike the 2011 series tvs HD divx files work (higher resolution!). This is raw, not transcoded.

I've set the profile manually to SMP-N100 and will test... everything now plays including online streams being transcoded to mpeg2.

This is all that device spy reports confirming it has very limited DLNA capabilites though it has good local playback. Does that look right ? no avi listed but it plays them!

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http-get:*:audio/L16:DLNA.ORG_PN=LPCM;DLNA.ORG_FLAGS=9d700000000000000000000000000000
http-get:*:audio/mpeg:DLNA.ORG_PN=MP3;DLNA.ORG_FLAGS=9d700000000000000000000000000000
http-get:*:audio/x-ms-wma:DLNA.ORG_PN=WMABASE;DLNA.ORG_FLAGS=9d700000000000000000000000000000

[patters]

Oops - looks like I screwed up with the HttpHeaders detection.

Currently it's:

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<X-AV-Client-Info>cn="Sony Corporation"; mn="Media Player".*</X-AV-Client-Info>

Can you try changing it to:

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<X-AV-Client-Info>*.cn="Sony Corporation"; mn="Media Player".*</X-AV-Client-Info>

and see if it gets autodetected?

As for the limited number of advertised compatible media formats I think that was pure Sony in 2010! The BDPs don't even show that much.

[zip]

did you mean ?

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<X-AV-Client-Info>.*cn="Sony Corporation"; mn="Media Player".*</X-AV-Client-Info>

[patters]

Oh dear. Yes, that's the one.

[NX3]

hehe....will test in a bit.

Weird how it doesn't report the files it can play.

[NX3]

Correctly identified but then I pressed refresh and it toggles back to generic... any ideas ?

Platters, did you want anything tested ? I think you mentioned testing this model in the beta forum...

[Cerberus]

Correctly identified but then I pressed refresh and it toggles back to generic... any ideas ?

Platters, did you want anything tested ? I think you mentioned testing this model in the beta forum...

that was something zip added, to try and make autodetect better, just remove all renderers from console and restart serviio service, and taht should correct it.

[patters]

Well one thing that would be interesting would be to see whether you can get it to detect using UPnPSearch and see if it gets a green dot in the console.
Since it's a 2010 device that's closely related to the BDP I reckon it's unlikely.

Then I'd be curious about the DivX/Xvid AVI support. One person had said that AVIs were not listed at all using the same settings as the BDP profile, which is what caused me to make a whole new profile. That AVI line is the only change. Can you confirm that is indeed necessary?

[NX3]

I've been testing the unit this morning and got the green dot and still on generic media player.

Using the Sony Bluray profile avi (xvid, divx) all are listed and play perfectly. The only files that don't get listed are mkv's, nothing is listed at all. On the SMP-N100 profile they are listed and transcoded. Online streaming works on both profiles.

Oddly in DD-WRT its reveals its host name as "sony-player" via its DLNA name of MEDIA-PLAYER which it looks like you can go and edit in the settings.

[NX3]

I've got the box running wired but it quite often suddenly drops off of Serviio saying the server cannot be found. Given everything else works with serviio so well and iplayer on the box works for severals hours no problem it appears to be a serviio specific issue / box specific to serviio. I can't see anything wrong as such.... I did notice the device name reported in serviio has now changed to Sony SMP-N100 though, odd.

Hi all...

I'm having hit and miss success with the SMP-N100 (basically, It works, and I like it).

SOME .MP4s (H.264) don't appear (while others do) - and they're authored by the same app (wierd, huh).

Anyway, if any of you developers would like to BORROW (and I stress BORROW [I want it back]), I'd be happy to send you one of my three SMP-N100s (if it would help resolve some of these issues).

Just let me know...

Regards,
Mark Ward
Carson, CA

[NX3]

Does your drop the server when browsing the folders ? I'm running wired, all other devices don't experience this problem. Its frustrating...

[zip]

SOME .MP4s (H.264) don't appear (while others do) - and they're authored by the same app (wierd, huh).

Can you post ffmpeg -i for those that don't appear?

[NX3]

Does your drop the server when browsing the folders ? I'm running wired, all other devices don't experience this problem. Its frustrating...

Per the competition (nice work by the way) give the dropped connections, do we know if anyone else gets this problem or just me from this box ? Just thinking it good be a bitter sweet prize !

[Illico]

Do we know if anyone else gets this problem or just me from this box ?

Do you have an US or NA model?
Because its seems that SMP-N100 (EU model) is very similar to BDP bluray player and Divx are supported. I think we could use "Sony BD Player profile" (to be confirmed).
- root categories folders also disappears with BD profile selected.

EDIT: look at this link : http://support.sony-europe.com/tvhc/faq ... 0&f=HV_SMP
The latest question [21] is : Which codecs are compatible with my device?

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[patters]

I can confirm that the Euro model of the SMP-N100 seems to be fine on the Sony BD Player profile with MKVs and AVI (the most contentious formats). I think the only thing that wasn't working for US owners was AVI (which gets presented as MPEG mime type). Can someone confirm this? And can a US BD Player owner check whether AVIs are working with the BD profile as it is?

@NX3 - I can't remember, are you in the US?

Remember for testing you can't actually change the profile in the Serviio GUI though, because it keeps snapping back since version 0.6. You'll need to stop Serviio, edit the name of the SMP-N100 profile to something stupid, then change the detection string for the BD Player:

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<FriendlyName>(Blu-ray Disc Player|Blu-ray Home Theat(re|er) System|Media Player)</FriendlyName>

[patters]

I have watched a full movie on it with no drop outs (that someone reported) so I suspect they may have a home LAN issue.

[NX3]

@NX3 - I can't remember, are you in the US?

UK with a UK SMP-N100

VLC player says:
Codec: MPEG-4 Video (FMP4)
Will the box play an avi file with that codec?
VLC player plays the file with no problem and reports no errors.
However, the n100 box says the file is corrupt or unsupported. It's the only file that I have with that codec so I can't try it with another file. It won't play it through Servvio or from a thumb drive plugged into the box.

[Illico]

Will the box play an avi file with that codec?

Could you provide MediaInfo result of this file in text output format?