Any Suggestions for DLNA Media Player/Renderer ???

[NikolasP]

Hello to all ,

guys i am looking around to find a decent DLNA Media Player/Renderer ..........

Any Suggestions ????

How about this one..........ASUS O!Play TV Pro

Many Thanks.

[Blazin65]

I've never heard of this ASUS and from what I see it's quiet pricy. So I may be not even in the same stratosphere as you are in terms of what you are wanting to do.

However, I've had a WDLive for about 2 years, which was only $99 and it has been quiet capable of streaming media from my PC to my TV, along with Mezzmo. Maybe I'm way behind the times. But if your only needing to stream from PC to TV, I can't quiet understand the option of this ASUS versus the WDLive.

[NikolasP]

Thanks for your answer ...Yes i know most of the asus products are expensive , but just looking around.........I have checked also the WD....Can i ask if with the WD were able to stream external subtitles.srt along with movies or did you had to do transcoding ???

Thanks.

[Paul]

The various WD TV Live media player models do support quite a few subtitle formats in both external and embedded forms - including SRT subtitles - so you do not need to burn subtitles in most cases.

[NikolasP]

Thanks Paul..this is what i wanted to know..........:)

[Blazin65]

Thanks Paul..this is what i wanted to know..........:)

Yes, to confirm, it's capable of subtitles.

Also, as an added bonus, ha ha, you can adjust the size, and position of subtitles with the WDLive, which I have found is a nice feature.

Oh, and I must give full disclosure, there have been a few movies, maybe 2 out of 100, whereby the subtitles would not pick up from the streaming from PC to WD scenario. However, if I saved the movie to a flash drive, along with the subtitles file, it would pick them up. I'm not sure why this was the case, but at 2 out of 100 I didn't care.

The only thing that the WD Live is not capable of is slow-motion. They may have updated it to handle slow-mo with new versions, but not to my knowledge. FF, yes, but slow-mo, no.

[NikolasP]

Thanks for the info Blazin65 :)