Connecting to LG Blu-ray Network DVD Player

As long as you are not using Lion, you should be able to see your Macbook from the LG "Homelink" screen if you enable "SMB" in preferences>sharing>options. You also have to turn on "File Sharing" in the same preference panel and select the volumes you want to share. When you do all that, your Macbook will show up as a server in the Homelink screen on your DVD player. When you click on it you'll get a "CIFS Login Screen". . . .then you enter your user name and password and you should be able to see the folders/drives you enabled in the File sharing option in the "Sharing" control panel in mac preferences.

hakkiocal wrote:

What is wrong with Lion? I was accessing my shared folder; after updating the OS, the LG started throwing "network access error"?

Many NAS makers haven't updated their software to be compatible. See #C16 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting.

First go to your System Preferences>Users and Groups anhd create a new user. If you are using the remote control's up and down arrows to enter text on your external device (blu-ray player, then create a user with a name like A or B.. And a password like Z or X. Create a folder on your HD and make it shared. Assign your new user to this folder and give hppim read and write privileges.

Now go to the external device and select Home Link, you should see your Mac. Click on it an your new shared folder will be seen. Click on it you will be challenged with CIFS ID anhd PWD. Enter them.. You will be there. If you get an network error message, see my message and Pondini's reply below!

OK.. You may have an earlier version of the MacOS. On MacOS X 10.5.8, at the office I also don't have users and groups but only the Users icon. I don't know if it stems from the OS difference, or because the "user privileges" your account has. I myself is only 10-month-old Mac User (Ask me anything on Windows!).

Click on the Users; and click on the padlock icon on the lower left corner.

And create the the new User A or B.

HI everyone..same problem here with LG blu ray player. I've done all the steps above, found the folders I want to share, even found the list of movies in the folder (that's housed on an external hard drive from our G5 tower). Here's the problem. I select a movie to play and it just loads....and loads...and loads. Then finally the Blu ray player turns off. Any hints?

The folder I'm sharing is the itunes folder that houses our music and movies, FYI

I gave up. I used Handbrake to convert all the video I really wanted into the Apple format. You can find a batch processor that will let you drag and drop any number of videos into it, then it uses handbrake to convert them to Apple format. Then I just added them to itunes and watch them using appletv.

Sorry I couldn't help.

I've had the LG BD670 for less than a day, so take my limited experience for what it's worth 🙂 I bought this mainly to play video content over my home network without having to plug in a USB HD.

I also have a recently-purchased Sony BDP S580 BD player that I'm testing and figuring out which to keep.

I installed TVMOBiLi (a DLNA server) on my early 2008 MacBook Pro (core2duo) (OS 10.7.2), and after an update to the latest (beta) version of TVMOBiLi and a couple of restarts, was able to get it to work.

The LG BD670 is able to see folders that I'd set up to share. Also, if you press the Red 'R' button on the LG remote, you can change the view of the file listings, which helps a lot. Video file compatibility seems pretty good

So far, with the BD670, I've successfully played the following file types over a DLNA share: mp4, m4v, mkv, and avi. I wasn't able to successfully play .mov files.

Encoding tested:

Video: x264, XViD

Audio: AAC, AC3, DTS

(Note that for my testing, the above encoding schemes were listed as part of the names of the file I tested -- I didn't spend time independently verifying the encoding schemes)

I'm impressed by the above, given that my old Oppo BPD-83 can't seem to play a whole lot of files through DLNA, though direct USB connection offers far better compatibility. The Sony S580 is also highly limited when it comes to being able to play video files over DLNA.

Video quality for the above file types seems really good -- better than the Sony S580 -- subjectively anyway. Audio seems OK, and by that I mean that I downsized recently to a Bose Cinemate II system to cut down on clutter in my living room -- the system sounds good for what it does IMO, but just not great.

Generally most of my content is 720p. So far, I've not played through 1080p content completely -- there is a pop-up message which states some content may not play correctly. In one case the LG BD670 crashed and restarted on a 1080p file.

However, no luck with getting CIFS login to get to my SMB shares on my MacBook Pro. I keep getting network errors - not sure if this is the problem others are referring to as far as the LG BD players not being to 'see' Mac OS X Lion SMB shares.

LG Dislikes:

1. The LG player's UI seems a little sluggish compared to the Sony S580 UI. The LG UI has fewer items available, but forces you to dig a few levels to get to what you want. The Sony remote also feels 'faster' IMO, but I tend to like the Sony remotes in general.

2. The LG also seems less graceful in recovering from file types it can't play. A few times, I got frustrated waiting and just pulled the AC plug from the wall.

Hope this helps anyone trying to do the same thing.

Equipment:

MacBook Pro early 2008 (OS 10.7.2)

MacBook Pro 2011 (OS 10.7.2)

2 - Apple AIrport Extreme, Apple Airport Express

Oppo BDP-83, Samsung UN46B6000 LED backlit HDTV

I'm trying to do the same thing....trying to get the LG BX580 Blu ray player to see my iMac as a server. It sees my wife's PC, which lives upstairs - but not my iMac.

I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8, and have turned ON file sharing in preferences. I'm not sure what "enabling "SMB" in preferences>sharing>options." means. ...I don't see anything like SMB in my preferences.

I'm just trying to see my Mac as a server on the TV screen.

Its been almost a year; LG did not updated its software; Apple did nothing about it. I am using Twonky Media Server. It works like a charm. Only downside is that when I am shutting the computer down, it cannot because the server is running! I have to stop the server first.

Good luck.

Hakki

Thanks for the reply...Still trying to get my LG to even SEE my Mac. Just got a note from LG saying "Unfortunately there is no DLNA solution for the MAC OS." Not even sure what that means.

However, in messing around with the LG's settings, I seem to have lost even my wife's PC that it previously recognized. I have the networking all done - it sees the wireless network, just no computers at all. Add to that, the LG now shuts itself off after 10 seconds of not seeing any servers. I hate technology sometimes.

Ok..managed to get the LG to see the PC. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, but I did download an app called MediaShare. I fired that thing up and then the LG lost the PC...I deleted the MediaShare app, and the PC reappears as a server on the LG.

I'm still trying to find something that installs on the Mac that can make it appear as a server on the LG. I will see if I can get a copy of Twonky somewhere. I'll see if it's possible to get a 30 day copy for free just to see if it works,

Playback definitely works streaming from my MBP to the BD670, running Lion 10.7.4. I had become obsessed with this wireless streaming thing since setting up my LG TV system 3 days ago, but I'd been thwarted until I tried Playback. It worked the very first time, and I'm a relative newbie with regard to wireless video setup. Thanks all, I wouldn't have known about Playback without this forum. ~Ghost

BD670 and Mac Mini running Lion 10.7.4. I can log into the Mac from the LG fine but when I try to access files from the LG BD670 i get 'Network Error' on the TV screen. I believe sharing is setup fine. When I try an access the Mac Console log shows..

' 15/07/2012 15:25:54.904 smbd: 192.168.2.4 SMB client not supported - Unicode, NT Errors, Long Names and Extended Security are required'

How can I fix this?

I uploaded Playback and it works fine for music and pictures BUT, this is subjective, it is a horrible interface, clunky and awkward and difficult to organise mixing of pictures or music on the screen. I have an AppleTV but was hoping with the LG that i'd no longer need it but since the Apple TV is so much slicker to use I am thinking of keeping it, only I'd now have another box to power and yet more cables. Apple TV's drawbacks for me being it won't play Lovefilm or BBC iPlayer.

For those stuck with being unable to connect to your Mac, especially after upgrading to Lion or later, I would recommend the free SMBUp, which you use *instead of* Apple's seemingly broken (for public shares) Windows file sharing:

http://eduo.info/apps/smbup