Re: Do not have chapters for mkv files when playing on samsung tv

[Mehmet Giritli <mgiritli giritli eu>]

On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 11:36 +0200, Jens Georg wrote:
> On Fr, 2013-10-11 at 11:18 +0300, Mehmet Giritli wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it normal that I do not see chapters of mkv files when playing them
> > on a samsung tv with rygel 0.18.4?
> >
> > I tested by playing the file with the media player on my computer and it
> > does have chapters. Is this a normal limitation of dlna?
>
> Well. Might have three reasons:
>
> a) The Samsung TV doesn't support chapters in mkv

I tried this and no this is not the case. It supports chapters when
played over usb hdd.

> b) The TV doesn't support chapters in mkv when served via DLNA

No way to know this I guess.

> c) The TV requests a transcoded version of the file (Samsungs do that
> sometimes for no obvious reason)

Is there a way to check this? I mean to see what is being requested by
the tv and if it is getting the transcoded version?

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