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[vifa84]

I just received the 750 and updated to FW 1.02.  These are the issues I'm having:
So far I am only using medialounge so I can't comment on the extender part yet
1.) will not FF or seek with mkv or wmv files
2.) bitrate and file size are not calculated correctly with mkv files and causes them to stop prematurely
3.) Nero mp4 files seem to not be supported
4.) Will not connect for me using wpa2 in 5ghz wireless N only mode with Linksys WRT610n router, mixed mode works but performance is poor

[equallywrong]

@ vifa84

my experience

1. does seek on wmv...i have no experience with mkv
2. i have no experience with mkv
3. nero definitely plays correctly...including seek, ff, rwd, time skip
4. i use wrt600n and can connect wpa2 on both 5ghz and 2.4ghz in either n-only or mixed mode...router is located 2 floors below the dsm-750 and goes through 4 walls...however the media center network analyzer says i just barely have enough bandwidth to watch hdtv

[vifa84]

@ vifa84

Thanks for the response.

my experience

1. does seek on wmv...i have no experience with mkv
I can FF and Rew with wmv but if I try to time skip to a point it just ends the video.
2. i have no experience with mkv
mkv Most of my HD media is in this format. You can rip a blu-ray to mkv with virtually no compression
3. nero definitely plays correctly...including seek, ff, rwd, time skip
For some reason Nero mp4 files, which played on the DSM-520 and were streamed from my Popcorn hour media tank will not play on the 750. They would play streamed from twonkyvision which is installed on my Linux computer so it must be an compatibility problem with the server
4. i use wrt600n and can connect wpa2 on both 5ghz and 2.4ghz in either n-only or mixed mode...router is located 2 floors below the dsm-750 and goes through 4 walls...however the media center network analyzer says i just barely have enough bandwidth to watch hdtv
I finally figured this out:  For some reason, if I let it find my router automatically it won't connect but if I choose manual setup and enter the ssid manually and then select wpa2 and aes it conencts

5. The player I received from Amazon on 3/17/09 was one of the ones that had the hardware problem and wouldn't connect with windows media center so I had to ship it back and I'm waiting for a replacement.

6.  While FW version 1.02 added support for mkv files, I think there are still problems with this format, at least in medialounge mode.  Files that stream fine to my other media player(Popcorn hour A-110) start off streaming ok but after 30 sec to maybe 5min or so it goes into slow motion and loses audio, like there isn't enough bandwidth.  This happens even with the media player wired directly to my router, so it's not a bandwidth issue.  These are 720p and 1080p mkv files which have been ripped from blu-ray disc and again, play fine steamed to my other media player.

7. It's a shame there are problems with mkv files because while the popcorn hour media player has many more options and plays virtually every type of file with video output in 1080p, I think the video output on the DSM-750 is a little better with deeper colors, especially with standard def files upconverted to 1080p.