DNLA connection between Sony Bravia TV and MacBook Pro

If I'm understanding correctly, you have the TV plugged in to the AirPort Express WAN port? That is probably causing conflicts since the AirPort Express is designed to distribute IP addresses via Wi-Fi. I would suggest using an AirPort Extreme, Time Capsule, or third-party router that is designed to act as a DHCP server over wired connections.

TwonkyMedia Server is another DLNA server app for Mac. I don't have any personal experience with it, but it looks like it's designed to support more devices that the MediaLink. http://www.twonkyvision.de/index.html

I assume that one AirPort Express (AX) is creating the wireless network. If that is correct the 2 AX's need to be configured to cooperate together so that the 2nd AX is extending the wireless network. Only then will the 2nd AX's Ethernet port be active.

Please let us know if you've been able to stream video from your mac to your Bravia via Twonky or any other DLNA-Server. I'd like to avoid using a PS3 also.

Kind regards,
Chris

That sounds pretty final - are there any work arounds??

Are you sure the Sony supports the filetypes you are trying to stream to it?

How do you fine Twonky? I'll be embarking down this road in the next few weeks with a new set too and am tossing up between Twonky and Elgato.

I also have been trying to strea media from my Macbook pro(10.5.2) with Twonky Media Server. The TV is SONY Bravia KDL 55X4500. The TV is wored to my home network and is seen in Twonky and vice versa. Able to stream photos - no problem. MP3 files again are seen and do play, but only for 1min and 3sec. Stops with meesage - No playback available. I used iTunes to rip all my CDs inot MP3 format and they all show up as MPEG audio file in iTunes. Have been looking on the net. Quite a few have reported this problem with audio. No answers yet!!

Can't stream video as the the DLNA compatibility seems to be only for audio and photos. There is no video tab on the Cross bar panel, on the TV.

Have also tried Eyeconnect. This is able to stream audio without the timing problem, but the photos do not seem to recognised properly.

Any help or suggestions much appreciated. This is driving me nuts!!!

Cheers
thirayan

Hi,

Just install PS3 Media Server on your Mac.
It will allow you to stream basic .avi movies out of the install.
Google for the app and then use the latest beta available at the official discussion FORUM.

FYI, I use it to connect to a SAMSUNG 40B700 TV via DLNA network.

Hi Marcus
Did you ever manage to solve this problem? I'm planning to go this same route but I found conflicting infos about Macs and DLNA....

Cheers


Paolo

Greetings All,

I have been searching for a DNLA solution as well. I did find a solution that seems to be headed in the right direction. http://tvmobili.com/product.php

At this point it is in Beta but I have been able to serve photos from my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard 10.6.2 to my Samsung LN52B750.

Please remember this is beta. I had some difficulty installing the software and they are trying to fix the installer to be more compatible. Shoot support an email if you have difficulty.

Good Luck!

EyeConnect worked for me to stream to Sony Bravia XBR9. Eyetv video worked great. Itunes works ok (not sure about the album art). iPhoto pictures show up but they are really small (10% of the screen). Any suggestions how to get iphoto pics to go full screen? imovie videos didn't show up at all. I'm testing it out for a month. I'll probably pay the $50 if I don't find anything that will work seemlessly with the eyetv library. Note, I didn't have to export the eyetv files. They show up in a menu on the Sony XBR9 and you click and play. You can forward through commercials 30 seconds forward and 15 seconds back.
-Andrew

I recently bought a Sony KDLW32 5500 and have also been fiddling with DLNA. EyeTV Connect works fine as a DLNA server for OSX but it appears that the range of video formats supported by Sony is very limited. EyeTV recordings play back on the TV perfectly, but I haven't been able to get any HD video, mp4 or iMovie files to play. Apparently MPEG-II is supported by the Sony but have yet to find a decent (free!) tool to convert my mp4s to try that one. If anyone has had any luck at all in getting video playing from their Mac via DLNA I'd be interested to hear about it.

Jim, your posting is very interesting as I have been struggling to get EyeConnect to work with my Sony KDL40W5500, which is a very similar model of TV to yours. My Mac shows up as a server on the TV, and I can successfully stream music and view photos from the Mac. I can also browse the EyeTV recordings library, but if I select any recordings to play I get no joy: the recording title appears at the top of an otherwise blank screen, then after a while everything goes blank. Sometimes - but not by any means all the time - I get a "Playback not available" message.

Looking at Activity Monitor on the Mac, it does seem to be sending something down the network. EyeConnect is using a bit of CPU - more than at idle - and kernel_task is quite busy. So it looks to me as if the problem is with the TV, not EyeConnect.

Could you give some insight in to how you configured your setup to get it working? I have a feeling that the renderer settings might be causing a problem, but to be honest I don't really understand what they are supposed to do...

I'm afraid there is going to be nothing short of mass confusion with DLNA. While the idea of an "alliance" to formalize standards is a good one, the standards are not firm at this time. It's likely that one "DLNA" device from one manufacturer may not work well (if at all) with another "DLNA" device from another.

This article may be of interest.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10007069-1.html