Streaming issues with Sony kdl32w653a

[phil750]

Hi All, 

Brought a new sony for my bedroom set up a few weeks ago. All has been fine since. 

I tried streaming something from one of my networked hard drives, and it will work fine for a random time

(sometimes its 10 mins sometimes it 30 seconds) then i will get a message saying "Cannot connect to server" 

I have tried this from 2 different media servers i have running. 

I can stream stuff online to my tv with no problems( via youtube etc...), and i can stream from my media server to my pc with no problems at all. 

I get good read/write speeds, tested and i can write to them at about 30mb/s and read at about 20mb/s. 

My tv is wired in. 

I have the latest software available. 

Anyone else had any problems?? 

[Anonymous]

Hi there

I have theory here : The TV can only buffer a small amount of information, much less than a PC/Laptop.  Try running the video file through a program called Bitrate Viewer.  This should give you a little more information in regards to average bitrate and maximum bitrate.

Can you try playing the problem video file directly via a USB drive to the TV?

Also, the network cables.  Are you using CAT5 or CAT5e or even CAT6?  If you are using CAT5, I would suggest using CAT5e or CAT6 instead.

Cheers.

[phil750]

thanks for that, 

i have cat5e cables hooked into a gigabit switch. 

But yer it would make sense it might be some buffering issue. 

I ran bitrate viewer and one file i was trying (i have tried a few videos too) is average 5340kbs

but is maxing at 34000kbs. That might be the problem if the tele cant store that much? 

[Anonymous]

From that, im reasonably confident, its that "burst" bitrate @34000kbps.  Try re-encoding the file, and set a max bitrate of say 10000kbps as a test (removing that variable).  Now if that fixes it. You then know what the problem is.  If that doesnt resolve the problem...well...back to the drawing board.