patch for DLNA capable Samsung TV-s

[banogabor@…]

Hi! This patch fixes two problems, when you try to play movies on DLNA capable Samsung TV ( tested on my own LE37B650 )

1, With the TV restricted software ( PC share manager ) detects and plays correctly the 'mkv' type files. Because this TV doesn't recognize the 'video/x-matroska' MIME type, therefore must change it to 'video/x-mkv' to plays it.

2. When plays any video on TV ( except recorded programs ) cannot pause its. The TV doesn't accept videos with zero duration. I'm set it to one minute, what isn't correct indeed, but able to pauses anywhere the videos. Unfortunatelly isn't any correct movie file duration detect method yet, therefore this parameter is a constant.

Is there anyone, who sends me a full DLNA document link?

[banogabor@…]

patch for samsung dlna TVs

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

Beirdo, since you were looking at stuff exactly like this last night you can have it :)

Stuart

[beirdo]

For the first part of the patch: Are we sure this will not cause a regression for other UPnP/DLNA players? I'll look into the code to see the heritage of that commit.

[beirdo]

(In [25300]) Changed matroska video MIME type to video/x-mkv and tweaked the reported duration of videos (not recordings) to 1 min. These tweaks to the UPnP are reported to make it work better with Samsung TVs, and we don't know of any regressions.

Closes #8643

[anonymous]

Replying to beirdo:

For the first part of the patch: Are we sure this will not cause a regression for other UPnP/DLNA players?

I don't know. My DLNA TV doesn't recognize x-matroska type, therefore rejects mkv's as unknown, but the official manual contains the mkv support and it works with its own software. Because I haven't got the (official) DLNA standards, I don't know where search the solution:

May be in the samsung firmware contains this mistake, but while haven't got description, I have no evidence to this. So don't construe to complain it at samsung.

Well now, currently simpliest to change MIME type to x-mkv in mythtv source to enable mkv's playing on TV. Some more test need to clear up, to know is this patch causes any problem in other players.

I'll look into the code to see the heritage of that commit.

Not sure.

[beirdo]

This was committed into trunk 5 days ago.

[Raymond Wagner <rwagner@…>]

In 749ac86220f72887be1e3cb0fb2d84979ae639ef/mythtv:

Revert Matroska MIME to 'video/x-matroska'.

If different clients are expecting different MIME times, the only
sensible solution is to use the one dictated by Matroska.

​http://matroska.org/technical/specs/notes.html#MIME
Refs #8643
Fixes #10980

[Raymond Wagner <rwagner@…>]

In cf06841da2364878ca7f4eff0240f9c470e841da/mythtv:

Revert Matroska MIME to 'video/x-matroska'.

If different clients are expecting different MIME times, the only
sensible solution is to use the one dictated by Matroska.

​http://matroska.org/technical/specs/notes.html#MIME
Refs #8643
Fixes #10980
(cherry picked from commit 749ac86220f72887be1e3cb0fb2d84979ae639ef)