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Product Support => HiMedia Q5/Q10 4K3D => Topic started by: momofx on November 04, 2015, 04:40:37 AM

Title: Cannot see Hard Drive on BluRay player when trying to stream
Post by: momofx on November 04, 2015, 04:40:37 AM

I have enabled Samba Share on my Q10 box but for some reason it will not show the Hard Drive (sda1) with my movies on my Sony BluRay player which is also connected on the same network with Wifi as well. It only shows the internal flash storage "sdcard1" instead. ** It does however show the hard drive on the Windows 7 PC only **

How do I get it to show the actual hard drive that I installed on the Blu Ray player? Thanks.

Title: Re: Cannot see Hard Drive on BluRay player when trying to stream
Post by: looun on November 04, 2015, 08:45:32 AM

usually BluRay player read share drive only with DNLA not samba/smb like windows.

Title: Re: Cannot see Hard Drive on BluRay player when trying to stream
Post by: futeko.com on November 04, 2015, 10:04:52 AM

The Q5/Q10 internal DLNA server will only share the Q5/Q10 internal storage (under /sdcard).

To get around this install Pixel Media Server from Play Store (it's free). This will let you choose what is shared by DLNA.

Title: Re: Cannot see Hard Drive on BluRay player when trying to stream
Post by: momofx on November 04, 2015, 02:53:05 PM

Thanks for the quick replies! I will try that app in a short while :)

Title: Re: Cannot see Hard Drive on BluRay player when trying to stream
Post by: momofx on November 04, 2015, 06:34:14 PM

Hi again, well I tried that program and then even tried in Kodi but even then with both programs, it will not show the internal hard drive contents on the blu ray player :( It just says "No playable content found" on the bluray player although I can see the drive "sda" and that's as far as it goes!

I have Samba share enabled and the hard drive with my movies is in NTFS format. Is there something I am doing wrong?

Title: Re: Cannot see Hard Drive on BluRay player when trying to stream
Post by: futeko.com on November 05, 2015, 09:31:33 AM

It could be that the Sony Blu-Ray player is blocking access.

What sort of files are they?

Sony will have various copyright protection software built into their products..