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Youtube on Bravia KDL-32EX403

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:15:15 GMT

A few days ago, some of the Youtube functionality stopped working on my 2010 model Sony Bravia. (KDL32-EX403). Although I was logged in, when I selected "My Account", I would get the message "A network error has ocurred".

To cut several days worth of trying things very short, I have :

Logged out and back in again (successfully) as both full email address and just my YouTube screen name.

Done a factory reset on the Bravia.

Removed and added favourites, playlists etc via a PC.

This has partially solved the problem, I can now watch videos in playlists, and favourites.

What I can't see is any of the videos in channels I've subscribed to.

If I go to "subscriptions", I get a list of them on my TV, but when I select any, instead of getting a list of videos, I get "a network error has occurred".

I have tried removing all my subscriptions, just adding one back, putting them all back etc (all via a PC) - this doesn't fix the problem.

It used to work fine. Only had problems in the last few days (coincidentally (?) around the same time I uploaded my first Youtube video from the account).

Anyone else seeing this problem?

Any ideas what I can do to fix it? It's a bit annoying.

Stuart.

PS : Factory reset seems to have made the TV more responsive, I swear it's quicker opening Youtube etc when I select it, although it might just be psychological! The TV has had probably 5 firmware updates since I got it, and this is the first factory reset I've done, so maybe it was a bit overdue.

Message was edited by: BlueSmoke1000

Youtube on Bravia KDL-32EX403

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:26:35 GMT

Just to update : as of last yesterday evening (11th February 2012) I can now play videos from channels I have subscribed to.

I did not do anything to fix this, it just started working, after several days of failing!

Just checked as I typed this - it's still working

Stuart.

Future BRAVIA features - requests & suggestions.

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:55:58 GMT

I've a 2010 Bravia KDL-32EX403.

I like the ability to turn the screen off when listening to DVB radio broadcasts, or external sources. But I can't turn the screen off when listening to MP3 playback from the TV.

The TV also seems over fussy about which MP3 album art it shows. Whilst my PC will show it, the TV often won't, though sometimes will.

How about a few user-defined buttons on the remote for techy users? I often turn the screen off when listening to things, but it's a fair few button presses and menu navigations to do this. It'd be nice to be able to program a button to go to "favourite" menu options, such as screen off, wherever they might be in the menu structure.

My TV adds and removes channels dynamically, and this is a good thing. But I'd quite like to be told when this has happened, or I might miss some new TV channel that's just started! Or at least to be able to choose to be told of new services, or not.

Thanks!

How to play MPG files on Sony Bravia - solution!

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Tue, 17 May 2011 11:53:43 GMT

jpcharlier wrote:

I have a Sony KDL-40BX400. I've converted an MKV file (x264 video and AC3 audio) to an M2TS using tsMuxeR GUI (said it was successful/no errors). However, the M2TS file does not appear on the file list when browsing the USB drive on the TV (16GB, FAT32 formatted). Other standard mpeg files etc list out fine and play (within the standard limitations!).

Has any one else encountered this or does anyone have any ideas on how to get around this?

I'd check the following :

Have you named the file with a .M2TS extension?

Is it definately on the USB flash drive (I've made this mistake before!)

Does the KDL-40BX400 support M2TS? My Bravia is the 2010 range EX, which does - I wonder if the BX doesn't?

The file not appearing on the list on the tv suggests it's either not there, or the TV isn't listing .M2TS files.

Providing tsMuxeR remuxes the file ok, I've never had any problems playing back it's output on my Sony Bravia.

Let me know how you get on

How to play MPG files on Sony Bravia - solution!

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:24:20 GMT

I recently bought a Sony Bravia KDL-32EX403U, and am very pleased with it except that when I plugged a USB drive into it and tried to play MPEG2 recordings I make from a satellite receiver, it wouldn't play them. They are standard format MPEG-PS, with a standard SD resolution of 720x576. They burn without conversion onto DVD, and play on other devices happily.

Searching the net, I found lots of people asking about this, and few satisfactory answers. I don't want to convert the file and lose quality. I briefly tried converting to MPEG1 video, the result was appalling.

Much research and tinkering later, and I have a solution. I thought I'd share it here so that others might benefit.

First, get tsMuxeR software from here :http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_video/video_editing/smartlabs_tsmuxer_win.cfm - click on the picture of the floppy disk that says "download". This version is for Windows, I've not located a version for Macs as yet.

Unzip it into a folder, and run tsMuxeR GUI. Drop your MPEG file onto it, and click the "M2TS Muxing" button near the bottom, choose the destination folder and filename, and then click "start muxing". When it's done (it's fairly quick) you can copy the .M2TS file onto your USB drive, and your Sony Bravia should play it!

This program isn't converting the file contents - there's no loss of quality or resolution. It's remuxing the file into a format the Sony Bravia is happy with. If you use a program such as MediaInfo to compare the MPEG and M2TS files, you'll see that inside, they are the same MPEG standard.

Using this I can play SD MPEG recordings and they look very nice indeed on my Sony Bravia KDL-32EX403U. I imagine this will work on other Sony Bravia models with USB playback that supports M2TS files.

Hope this is of use to others on here.

Message was edited by: BlueSmoke1000 to remove dead download link and replace with a working one.

How to play MPG files on Sony Bravia - solution!

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:58:01 GMT

This is a working link to download the Windows version of tsMuxeR :

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_video/video_editing/smartlabs_tsmuxer_win.cfm

Click on the picture of the floppy disk where it says "download" to get the 2.8Mb .zip file, then follow my instructions at the start of this thread.

This version of tsMuxeR is the same as the one I'd downloaded from the original site.

Let me know if it works for you

How to play MPG files on Sony Bravia - solution!

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:24:54 GMT

msxbas wrote:

sounds interesting, but the link is dead, and I cannot find a download link?

this seems to be the new page in english:
http://www.smlabs.net/en/products/tsmuxer/

I am trying to view my avchd files from my canon camcorder on my bravia 32ex402 from usb.
mp3 works fine from that usb drive, avchd not....

Hmm, yes, the web site hosting tsMuxeR has been redesigned, and there's no download link for it anymore. I'll see what I can find.

tsMuxeR did have problems, it would crash quite easily when encountering problems with the file you're trying to remux, however I had 100% success rate in using it to remux MPEG2 recordings from my satellite receiver and they would subsequently play on my Sony Bravia. I also got some other formats to remux and play, when formerly they had not. I've been using it recently to remux .VOB files and I can play those too!

I've read discussions on development of an open source project to do what tsMuxeR does, I'll see if I can find anything useful about that too.

KDL-32EX403U - usb video file formats

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:34:27 GMT

I've got divx, avi and Mpeg to play successfully, though some need remuxing into .m2ts format first.

If your Sony tries to play the file, but reports "playback not available", or you want to see if you can get it to play a file that it won't display at all, have a look at this thread :

https://www.sony.co.uk/discussions/message/638254

where I've explained how I got it to work using some freeware software.

This isn't the same as converting from one format to another (ie MPG > MP4), which would lose some quality in the conversion. This remuxes the file into a different conatiner, the video and audio remains the same, but the Sony Bravia is a lot happier playing it

Hope this helps.

how to unlock usb 40ex402 to let mkv

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:56:34 GMT

In this thread, I've written a guide on how to make MPEG files play on a Sony Bravia :

https://www.sony.co.uk/discussions/message/638254#638254

This will also work with mkv files, converting them into .m2ts files. This doesn't affect the quality.

Hope this helps!

Video Conversion - What codec to create AVI/MPEG?

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:51:03 GMT

I've posted on this thread http://www.sony.co.uk/discussions/message/638676#638676 about making mpeg files compatible with Sony Bravia.

It would appear that it'll work with .MKV files as well.

I've not got any .MKV files to try it with, but since they're a variant on .TS (as I understand it), I think it should work.

Give it a go, and see if it works - since it's remuxing, rather than re-encoding, you should find you don't lose any quality at all.

Hope this helps.

movie file format on USB stick

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:33:57 GMT

This thread here :

http://www.sony.co.uk/discussions/message/638254#638254

might help you in getting a few other formats to play on your Sony Bravia

How to play MPG files on Sony Bravia - solution!

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:45:21 GMT

I've been using various USB sticks (4 and 8gb), which I've had no problem with once the file format is correct for the Sony.

But, as a starter, make sure your external hard disk is formatted with FAT or FAT32 format. The Sony doesn't support NTFS, which might be the problem.

If your external hard disk is connected to a Windows PC, it's likely to be in NTFS format.

Plug it into the PC, open up Windows Explorer, right click on the drive letter and choose "properties" - it'll tell you in there if the external drive is FAT, FAT32, NTFS or some other format.

If you want to reformat it to FAT32, you'll probably have difficulty doing this under Windows. If you can choose "FAT32" under "File System" in the format dialog box, great - go for it. I suspect it won't appear. ("exFAT" won't help you - the Sony doesn't support this)

This is because Windows puts an artificial limit of 32Gb when formatting disks using FAT32. There are technical/effieciency reasons for this, but it's frustrating.

You'll need an additional piece of software that will let you format larger disks with FAT32. Go here :

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/guiformat.htm

And click on the picture of the program, it'll download a little program, save it somewhere useful and run it.

This software is Freeware, but if you find it useful I urge you to click on the Paypal button and donate something to the author.

Make sure you select the correct disk drive to format, YOU WILL LOSE ALL DATA ON THE DISK THAT YOU FORMAT!

It's very quick (if you choose quick format option). You can then copy your media files to the hard disk and your Bravia should play them.

I've tested two hard disks - an old 20Gb disk connected via an IDE to USB adaptor, and a slightly less old 80Gb disk, also connected in the same way. Both work with no problems on my Bravia KDL-32EX403, providing that the files I try to play are in a format the Bravia is happy with (see my original post in this thread about remuxing to .M2TS)

Hope this helps.

Message was edited by: BlueSmoke1000 to add details of tests done on two hard disks

KDL-40EX503 TV Flash drive compatibility

noreplyforum@eu.sony.com — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:04:06 GMT

I've got a KDL-32EX403, and find it's very picky with what MPEGs it will play. I've got recordings in standard DVB-S compliant MPEG from a satellite receiver that won't work.

If you've got MPEGs that won't play, have a look at my post here : http://www.sony.co.uk/discussions/message/633283#633283 where I've detailed how to get DVB compliant MPEGS to play on Sony Bravia by wrapping them in a .m2ts container file - this does not re-encode the video, so there's no loss in quality that you might otherwise see if you reconverted to (say) divx.

As the previous poster said, USB drive compatibility seems to be more down to how the drive is formatted - you need FAT or FAT32. I've yet to encounter problems with any drive formatted with this.

Lack of NTFS support is understandable, I think. I'm disappointed there isn't support for the newer exFAT format though, which allows for much larger (ie video!) size files.