WDTVLIVE: Buffering... and then nothing., though foo_upnp can communicate with WDTVLIVE Options

[DerJohannes]

It's odd...

If I try to play a song from foobar2000/Windows 7 to a "WD TV Live" in the LAN, the UPnP Console first goes "Buffering..." and after a couple of seconds, it drops back to "Stopped", without playing the song.

This is what I found out so far:

- For comparing the situation on a Windows 7 and a Window XP computer, I did a portable foobar2000 installation on an USB stick. Some testing music media is also located on this stick.

- The versions of the WDTVLIVE firmware (1.06.15), foobar2000 (1.1.8) and foo_upnp (0.99.35) are NOT the problem, because when I attach a Windows XP machine with the same versions of foobar2000 and foo_upnp to the same network cable(!), everything is working fine.

- The Windows 7 firewall is NOT the problem, because it is completely disabled.


The odd thing is:

- Windows Media Player (12) streams Media (music and video) to the WDTVLIVE without problems.

- When I open both WMP and foobar2000, and I stream music or video from WMP to the WDTVLIVE (using the "Play to" feature), then the foobar2000 "UPnP Controller" displays correctly what is happening on the WDTVLIVE (first "Buffering..." then "Name of the media | Media type | bitrate | samplerate" and "Playing time / Total time"). I can even stop the WMP streaming from foobar2000!

Obviously, foobar2000 can communicate with the WDTVLIVE in both directions (because I can see what is happening AND I can stop the WMP stream).

What could be the reason why I cannot start to play an MP3 from foobar2000 under Windows 7? (consider: it's working on Windows XP under the same conditions!)

Any help would be highly appreciated.

This post has been edited by DerJohannes: Dec 10 2011, 14:17

[sboistan]

Hi, I'm not sure if this will help you, but I was able to get streaming to my WD-Live by using the following streaming profile:

Use profile when User-Agent contain WDTVLIVE (or whatever your WD-Live's name is on your network)
Renderer Capabilities: Samplerate Range 4100 to 4100 Max Bit Depth 16
Can decode HTTP and MMS streams directly (checked), Stereo only (checked)
Transcode to Mp3 - Never or except internet connection (checked). VBR Encoding Quality 3.
Decoding to PCM: Decode always to lpcm
Playback Stream Capture: Codec: WAV, samplerate 44100, bit depth 16
Only replaygain enabled in audio processing.

[DerJohannes]

I was able to get streaming to my WD-Live by using the following streaming profile:

Use profile when User-Agent contain WDTVLIVE (or whatever your WD-Live's name is on your network)
Renderer Capabilities: Samplerate Range 4100 to 4100 Max Bit Depth 16
Can decode HTTP and MMS streams directly (checked), Stereo only (checked)
Transcode to Mp3 - Never or except internet connection (checked). VBR Encoding Quality 3.
Decoding to PCM: Decode always to lpcm
Playback Stream Capture: Codec: WAV, samplerate 44100, bit depth 16
Only replaygain enabled in audio processing.

Hi! Thank you for this profile! Though it has not solved the problem, it's good to have a profile that works with WDTVLIVE in general, just to exclude the profile as root cause.

foo_upnp v0.99.35 still keeps dropping back to "Stopped" after trying to play to WDTVLIVE (firmware v1.06.15) without an apparent cause.




This post has been edited by DerJohannes: Dec 13 2011, 07:42