DNLA connection between Sony Bravia TV and MacBook Pro

Hi

I bought a new Sony Bravia TV KDL40E4500 that comes with an Ethernet port and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) support. I used an Ethernet cable to connect to one of my Airport Express (802.11n) base stations and the TV is given an IP number alright.

How do I stream media from my MacBook Pro over the wireless network to the TV? I installed Nullriver MediaLink 1.72 which recognises an 'unknown device' with the right IP address, but the TV says it doesn't recognise any media servers. I also tried AllegroMediaServer, but it looks like it's from 2006 and it keeps crashing on my system right after start-up.

Has anyone successfully set up a media server that streams directly to a Sony Bravia TV? I don't want to go via a PS3.

MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.6), iPhone 3G

Posted on Apr 2, 2009 5:09 AM

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Jun 11, 2010 1:35 PM in response to Marcus Foth

I have just bought the Sony Bravia KDL40EX403U 40-inch LCD TV which I was disappointed to find wasn't able to join my wireless home network out of the box. So rather than buying the £70 usb adapter I went for a wireless bridge using the belkin wireless gaming adapter. I finally got this working last night.

Cut to the chase...

Until I bought this TV I had been streaming my movies and videos to my old tv via my ps3 from my imac using nullriver's medialink. Very effective.

However, as you have all found Medialink doesn't seem to work with the Bravia. I have found a media server that does though. iSedora works I have only tried the Demo which only works for an hour at a time but it looks promising.

Jul 19, 2010 10:42 PM in response to Philip Nicholson

i tried today for about 6 hrs to get some sort of DLNA streaming video to my new Bravia... seems a few would do photos/music, a few would be recognized, but not communicating correctly (seems to be a problem with the on the fly transcoding of some of the fileformats)

iSedora works great, streams to my X-BOX and to my TV flawlessly (although i dont like how it runs as an app instead of a pref-pane/daemon), i'd hate to have to pay for it though with so many free alternatives out there... theres gotta be somebody who'se figured out the DLNA standard and implementation for macs?

Nov 12, 2010 6:00 AM in response to Brandon H.

Hi mate,
I am hoping you could help me I have a sony bravia with the Airport Extreme and have a hard drive with movies on it. I want to watch the movies on my TV but don't know how. I have next to no idea how to do anything at all and although a lot of what I have read has been helpful but unfortunately I am going to have to get someone to explain it to me in tiny little steps. And was hoping you could help me out I have bought all this gear new macbook pro new airport extreme thought it would be easy grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

When I go into the network settings on my TV it picks up an IP address but I do not know what to do next>>> help?

Jan 3, 2011 9:03 AM in response to CROFT02

I finally have this working with reasonable (not 100%) stability. I have a 27inch iMac running eyetv 3.5 and Bravia nx713 with built-in wifi via Time Capsule. Basically, I wanted to serve eyetv and mp4 movies from the mac to the Bravia via wifi. Tried eyeconnect, PS3 media server, tvmobili without great results - dropping connections, timeouts, format incompatibility, etc, etc. Then tried iServiio (http://www.serviio.org/) demo version which allows upto 60 mins streaming for free. Very simple to install and recognises the Bravia straight away plus seems able to transcode most formats as necessary for the Bravia's limited MPEG-2. Pictures also serve very well. Only issue seems to be intermittent dropping of connection between the Bravia and the server from time to time - can't discern any pattern. If anyone has a solution, would be much appreciated.

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