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I recently upgraded from a BDP-S590 to a BDP-S5100 (but this model turns out to have MAJOR issues streaming via UMS, almost nothing streams, despite being identified as a "Sony Blu-ray" and having, on paper, the same supported formats, plus more, of the 590). The latter is going back due to all the ...

tmeader, if you look at the renderer config included in 2.6.1 you will see your suggestion there at the bottom, it is commented out because it causes incompatibility issues on some Sony BDPs. The options we have included are to my knowledge the best way to make it work on all Sony BDPs.

My ...

This is very close to correct, but there's still issues with AVI files with this config. It's needlessly transcoding them into MP4 when they are XVID (and the 590's can natively play xvid fine as long as the MIME is set to "video/x-divx").

I previously mentioned this in one of the release notes ...

I was happy to see an entry about improved Sony Blu-ray support... but it appears to still fail quite decisively on most mkv (h264 encoded) files on the most recent x90 series of players (390,590,790) running the latest firmware. I'm not sure if this breaks compatibility with older DLNA Sony Blu-ray ...