I have 2 Vizio "smart" TVs (TV1: E420i-A0, TV2: E322AR) which are both behaving in the same way. I also stream media through an Xbox 360, which I only mention for troubleshooting comparison.
I have all my media files hosted on what I'll call PC1 (windows 7 pro, streaming with Windows Media Player libraries).
I copied all those media files to a new machine PC2 (windows home server, a flavor of XP, which is running HP Media Smart Home Server software).
Both TVs and the Xbox can play all my media off PC1, no problems.
Neither TV will play anything off PC2, though. You can see the DLNA listed and you can browse it and you can see the folder structure and it will display all the videos by name and file extension but it simply does nothing when you try to play them.
Xbox CAN play everything off the PC2 with no issue.
I've contacted Vizio and they just say there's "something wrong with PC2". I've installed K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. I've turned off firewalls on PC2, I've shared folders with full permissions for "Everyone". I just cannot guess why either Vizio will play files off PC2 even though it "sees" them.
I have all my media files hosted on what I'll call PC1 (windows 7 pro, streaming with Windows Media Player libraries).
I copied all those media files to a new machine PC2 (windows home server, a flavor of XP, which is running HP Media Smart Home Server software).
Both TVs and the Xbox can play all my media off PC1, no problems.
Neither TV will play anything off PC2, though. You can see the DLNA listed and you can browse it and you can see the folder structure and it will display all the videos by name and file extension but it simply does nothing when you try to play them.
Xbox CAN play everything off the PC2 with no issue.
I've contacted Vizio and they just say there's "something wrong with PC2". I've installed K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. I've turned off firewalls on PC2, I've shared folders with full permissions for "Everyone". I just cannot guess why either Vizio will play files off PC2 even though it "sees" them.