Yeah I used to run MediaTomb on my old NAS box. If you don't transcode and only stream video in a straightforward manner, then it should be fine.
What resolution do you use for your Android tablet ? (720p ?)
I was hoping Sony would extend its DLNA foundation further, but no dice so far. e.g., Cache video/image thumbnails locally and animate them as if the files are kept locally. This would provide a much smoother navigation experience.
I remember testing DLNA and XMB videos with RemotePlay. The unprotected ones would play fine. But the protected ones can't be played.
Yes DLNA is built on top of HTTP.
On the PS3, if you use the old web browser to download a video, it will be treated as a progressive download movie. You would see a custom movie controller and could play the video while it is being downloaded via HTTP. FF and REW work like a file-based seek, so it's fast and consistent. When you seek beyond the download boundary, the browser would try to keep up (Move your seek head further as it downloads more bytes). I have not tested this use case with the new browser.
I used to run a DLNA server and a web server pointing to my media directory at the same time.
In DLNA, the media controller is part of the protocol. The client sends high level "seek" commands to the DLNA server (at the app and HTTP level). In my experience, it's much slower and less predictable (Could hang your PS3 if you seek too aggressively, like 30x). I remember Sony improved the performance somewhat, but the last time I checked -- which is years ago -- the HTTP approach is still more reliable.
Yeah it really shows that bluray's interactivity stack was added more in haste because it's quite appaling in it's functionality. But as slow and crude as blurays menus, etc, are i think that's only one of the ways they are shooting themselves in the head ultimately. Forced trailers, etc just kill the experience. I wonder, has anyone else here done the spouse test? Like have your wife sit down a play a bluray disc, then have her play a bluray rip. I wonder would she prefer the < 1 second startup time direct to movie of a bluray rip, or would they be tolerant of a typical bluray disc? Or worse yet like once when my wife hit the stop button by accident while playing a bluray disc and she had to rerun the disc and go through the entire load process all over again, she was like "screw this" lol and just abandoned it. I sometimes think execs, etc are just living in a differnet world and they don't realize people have other options now. I'll admit that even though I'm a graphics whore and extremely picky about picture quality, if Anydvd didn't exist then I probably would not use blurays at all and would just stick with netflix or some other instant to movie format. I just can't stomach actually playing a bluray disc. The only reason I have 153 bluray movies is because of Anydvd.
