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I am trying to setup a media server running Debian 7.8 and the latest release of minidlna. My TV is a Toshiba 50L7300UC and can play music and show images via the DLNA. It will play .mkv videos too, but when I try to play an .mp4 video it says "Unsupported file". If I put the same .mp4 video on a USB, the TV plays it no problem.

How can I get minidlna to play .mp4 videos? Thank you.

Alan P.
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  • I just learned that I can stream an .mp4 video to my phone via minidlna, but the same .mp4 won't stream to the TV (and it would play on the TV via USB). – Alan P. Jan 16 '15 at 11:41

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Firstly, it's my understanding that the video is a .mp4 but it uses MPEG-4 compression (.mp4 is just a container holding: the video, audio, subtitles, chapters). So the TV needs to support MPEG-4. Found the answer from deep in the manual (http://support.toshiba.ca/support/ceg/manuals/LEDTV/L4300UC_L7300UC_E.pdf), MPEG-4 is supported via USB but not via a media server:

File specifications:

USB use:

File format: MPEG2 PS, MPEG2 TS, MPEG-2 VOB, AVI, MOV,MP4, ASF, DivX, Xvid, MKV, Flash Video (FLV1), 3GPP, MotionJPEGVideo: MPEG2, H.264, MPEG-4 part2, DivX, Xvid, VC-1 (WMV9), RealVideo 8,9,10, Sorenson H.263 (FLV1), JPEG

Content on a connected Media Server:

File format: MPEG2 PS, MPEG2 TS, MP4 (Low resolution)

Alan P.
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