VLC and network share

[sukmudha7]

All,

I have a Windows 2012 server which is storing all my movies etc.. on a shared drive which is part of a domain i.e. domain.  

Now when I try to access the share via the VLC TV app I am asked to enter the username and password, but not matter what format i enter I am unable to connect to the share.

I have tried

domain;user

domain\user

domain/user

/user

\user

The share is working fine when I try it from another computer.

Can anyone assisit?  

Thanks

[Anonymous]

Hi there

Unfortunately this is a known issue (to me) as I conducted some of my own tests at the begining of this year (2016) - I submitted feedback to a department within Sony in early April - but unfortunately the 10/100Mbps NIC is the case for these TVs.  Hopefully 2017 and beyond has the 10/100/1000Mbps NIC - but nothing can be done for 2016 and earlier TVs.

[aistis]

Unfortunately, high performance NIC doesn't seem to be able to solve this, as demonstrated with wifi, which is able to push almost 1Gbps. They will also need to put a higher performance CPU/chipset to cope with those packets. 

[Anonymous]

One would think (hope!) that Sony Engineers would also come to that conclusion too. 

But then again, thinking back, the same tests I did was successful via USB drive....

[aistis]

If USB works, then not all is lost. Alternative theory was that VLC and similar are not using full hardware decoding capabilities. Oh well, back to USB then...

[sukmudha7]

Hi all,

I recently took a whole load of 4k vidoes using my Sony RX100 IV camera and copied the .mp4 over to my windows server.  No matter what application I use e.g. KODI, VLC the 4k vidoes simply will not play smoothly over my 1GB network using Cat 5e cable to the TV. Is a USB SSD drive my only option left to play these 4k 100m100p mp4 files?

When using Netflix 4k plays fine so I am confused in why I am having these problems.  Is there an official UK Sony support centre I can log a ticket with?

thanks

[sukmudha7]

Hi again,

In the end I decided to buy a WeTek Play2 Andriod box and this little thing solved all my problems.  I can connect to my Windows share and play all my 4k videos H265 & H264 plus lots of other codecs, KODI 17.1 works pefectly and can also play all my 4k videos.  Everything just works and this little box cost £100.  

I have setup KODI 17.1 on my WeTek Play2 and my Sony XD93 £2000 TV and KODI on my TV is absolutely terrible!! Constantly buffering, freezing and just not something you would expect.

I dont know what Sony are thinking by engineering a TV like this.  For the additional £100 I am very happy now and everything is working.

Thanks

[Moggsterlondon]

Go into settings and clear data then log in again with just username and password. Worked for me