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DLNA with PS3... instructions?

Hey,
I can't figure this out. First thing I did was open allshare. I selected "play media from phone on another device." It couldn't find any devices. I then checked out my PS3. I tried going to the remote play settings to register my device.
It gives me a number to input during device registration... but this is where I get stuck. I don't know where to go from here. Allshare doesn't have an option to "register a device."
Someone has to know how to do this... seeing as EVERYONE says DLNA works with a PS3....

Not sure if this is gonna help, but the PS3 streams media through a particular protocol, (UPnP), I don't believe the epic streams media in that protocol. Which means that avi, or most movie files wont play, however, I have gotten the PS3 to play songs and pictures from my epic. On the flip side, I have a Dlink DNS323 streaming to my PS3, and I can access the files on the epic, but not the movie files, just photos and pics. Not sure if movies streaming from a third party app will stream correctly either. If I am not mistaken the DLNA protocol is typically used for newer televisions with wireless enabled devices, ie Samsung LED TVs.

spf2722 said:
Not sure if this is gonna help, but the PS3 streams media through a particular protocol, (UPnP), I don't believe the epic streams media in that protocol. Which means that avi, or most movie files wont play, however, I have gotten the PS3 to play songs and pictures from my epic. On the flip side, I have a Dlink DNS323 streaming to my PS3, and I can access the files on the epic, but not the movie files, just photos and pics. Not sure if movies streaming from a third party app will stream correctly either. If I am not mistaken the DLNA protocol is typically used for newer televisions with wireless enabled devices, ie Samsung LED TVs.
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Videos DO work
I did some more digging through the PS3 menus. Under video, you can select sources to play media from. My PC was listed seeing as it has a wireless connection. I figured I would try something. I opened allshare from my Epic and selected "play media from phone on another player." I selected about 5 divx AVI files (How I Met Your Mother.... yay) and then it started looking for devices. It couldn't find any, but I left the Epic on this screen.
Going back to the PS3, I went under video again and this time "samsung mobile" showed up. I selected that and my list of movies appeared. I selected one and it started to play on my TV. SWEET!
Unfortunately, 720p MKV files won't play on the PS3. They play on the Epic though beautifully.

I don't get the point really. If I'm already at home, why not just stream my TBytes of media from PC to xbox/ps3/wd tv live/whatever? Why go through the hassle of transferring media to phone and then trying to stream it back from phone?
If you already have a ps3 at home (and I assume you're at home trying to stream from Epic to ps3), why not just run ps3 media server on your PC (or playback if on a Mac) and stream all your media that way?

LordLugard said:
I don't get the point really. If I'm already at home, why not just stream my TBytes of media from PC to xbox/ps3/wd tv live/whatever? Why go through the hassle of transferring media to phone and then trying to stream it back from phone?
If you already have a ps3 at home (and I assume you're at home trying to stream from Epic to ps3), why not just run ps3 media server on your PC (or playback if on a Mac) and stream all your media that way?
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because now you dont have to be at your house to share a video.. as long as it isnt an .mkv file.
or you could record a video on your epic and then instantly stream it to your tv wirelessly.
is everyone gonna use this... nah not even 50% of people id say.. but its a nice lil option.. not sure if id prefer this over hdmi out or not.. its close.

anyone have any links to any DLNA converter boxes or TV's that possibly carry it. I could only find Sony's(expensive) with DLNA.

hydralisk said:
Videos DO work
I did some more digging through the PS3 menus. Under video, you can select sources to play media from. My PC was listed seeing as it has a wireless connection. I figured I would try something. I opened allshare from my Epic and selected "play media from phone on another player." I selected about 5 divx AVI files (How I Met Your Mother.... yay) and then it started looking for devices. It couldn't find any, but I left the Epic on this screen.
Going back to the PS3, I went under video again and this time "samsung mobile" showed up. I selected that and my list of movies appeared. I selected one and it started to play on my TV. SWEET!
Unfortunately, 720p MKV files won't play on the PS3. They play on the Epic though beautifully.
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You dont have to select anything in all share just opening it will make it apear in the ps3 video list. Also maybe I am wrong but since the ps3 is doing the playing only media supported by it will work and mkv is not supported on the ps3.
LordLugard said:
I don't get the point really. If I'm already at home, why not just stream my TBytes of media from PC to xbox/ps3/wd tv live/whatever? Why go through the hassle of transferring media to phone and then trying to stream it back from phone?
If you already have a ps3 at home (and I assume you're at home trying to stream from Epic to ps3), why not just run ps3 media server on your PC (or playback if on a Mac) and stream all your media that way?
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What if you already have a ton of media on your epic, it does come with a 16 GB sd card. I personally have about 8-9 gigs of media on there right now and the ability to stream direct to anything is great.

was anybody able to get video shot on the epic out onto PS3? When i try this it says it's an invalid video format. Works great on samsung tv's w/ DLNA though.

I was able to get it to work, but not from the epic. I had to get it done through the pc for the video to stream. Everything else works fine through allshare

hydralisk said:
Videos DO work
I did some more digging through the PS3 menus. Under video, you can select sources to play media from. My PC was listed seeing as it has a wireless connection. I figured I would try something. I opened allshare from my Epic and selected "play media from phone on another player." I selected about 5 divx AVI files (How I Met Your Mother.... yay) and then it started looking for devices. It couldn't find any, but I left the Epic on this screen.
Going back to the PS3, I went under video again and this time "samsung mobile" showed up. I selected that and my list of movies appeared. I selected one and it started to play on my TV. SWEET!
Unfortunately, 720p MKV files won't play on the PS3. They play on the Epic though beautifully.
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I have a Samsung Vibrant and this worked perfectly for me! Thank you!
Also, MKV's stream from my Mac to my PS3 just fine.. haven't tried streaming from Android to PS3 though..

2.2 (froyo) users and DLNA (allshare)

Currently 2.1 "All Share" will not play mkv's via lan.
Can a froyo user test the following methods.
Using a network file manager app like Astro, are you able to play a MKV from lan?
Via Allshare can you play a MKV from lan?

My Synology 107+ contains 3 small test files : one avi(Xvid), one mpg(MPEG2) and og one mkv(x264)
My I9000 JPK with OCLF could not play any of them!!!
I think they all worked on JM8!!!
Regards,
JKay

I tried avi format with my Philipf 46PFL9704, and it works fine!
But Mkv and default video it doesen't open 'cos it hasn't good codecs..

No luck with mkv or xvid (avi) through allshare on jpk.
Also its worth mentioning that the same files I tested play perfectly directly on the phone..

Trinitronik said:
I tried avi format with my Philipf 46PFL9704, and it works fine!
But Mkv and default video it doesen't open 'cos it hasn't good codecs..
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It has nothing to do with codecs. Copy the same file to your device and it will play fine. It is a problem with AllShare, and it seems like it is still broken in the Froyo update. Which doesn't surprise me since AllShare is not part of Android.

Guys, as I understand, Allshare is only used to transfer files to a player. Playing mkv or anything has to do with the player's capability. Firmware won't change the experience!
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I rename my .mkv files to .avi.
Media Player 11 then picks them up as shareable, and I can stream them without problems via AllShare to my i9000.
Only problem is, you cannot seek, so you have to watch from the beginning.

I've streamed MKVs from my phone to my Western Digital TV box, with JF3 and JM2...

my allshare cannot find my laptop after I upgraded to 2.2 JPM.. anyone else have this issue?

I have reflashed and it still has this problem..
I also have a problem where the phone will connect to one of my routers at home, but will not connect to the repeater bridge router in my room which has identical settings as my main router..
Along with Allshare not working, these two features were working fine before, and now after I flashed froyo JPM, it stopped working..
When I tried going back to stock firmware, it still didnt work..
Any ideas guys? Thanks!

I'm having same problems.
Upgraded my Samsung Galaxy to Froyo and now can't play .mkv files via allshare anymore. This is so frustrating, I thought Froyo was all singing and going to make the Android device the ultimate weapon. I have tried other andriod .mkv players and all have the same problem <media not recognised>

Hi,
actually, after the update, AllShare is more or less completely broken. First of all, a firmware upgrade will most likely not help, because AllShare is not part of android at all.
Regarding another post: A media server does not only offer the video to a network source, it obeys to a certain standard (DLNA), which is why you will always find your MKVs being transcoded to some sort of MPEG stream before playing. The Media SERVER has all the work providing ready-to-go video, most likely with as little compression as possible. DLNA ist not just a samba share. It is way more than that.
Can anyone confirm the MP3 behavior I am experiencing? MP3s play fine for the first 30 seconds, somewhere around that they start skipping around and finally stop when played through my PS3 media client.
Samsung Galaxy S i9000, lagfixed, JPO.
Cheers.
Andreas

This is a real pain in the bum.. there must be a way to get the mkv files to stream from my server to my phone. It worked perfectly on the Android 2.1 version : (
I wonder who makes Allshare and if they are aware of the problem? Alternatively does anyone know any other program that can stream .mkv files to the Galaxy? I really don't want to start having to load an 8gb file on to the card to play it : /

There's another thread on this in the Vibrant forum. No news there either.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10387971#post10387971

Hmm never tried Allshare but regarding Astro I've never gotten it to play anything from a network share, always had to copy to the SD card first. That does take an annoyingly long time so I'll watch for progress on this as well (for whenever I actually get a working SGS back in my hands ).

Try using ES File Explorer as it seems better than Astro and has its own video player which streams from FTP and file shares OK for me.
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thegadgetman said:
Try using ES File Explorer as it seems better than Astro and has its own video player which streams from FTP and file shares OK for me.
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Yes, but it lacks tracking (skipping in a file) and also doesn't support MKV.

Is there a way stream my Nas media in allshare, I can only play pc files?
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sonci said:
Is there a way stream my Nas media in allshare, I can only play pc files?
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AllShare is a DLNA program. It is capable of functioning both as a client and as a server. It sounds like you want to play back PC files on your phone. For this you would need something acting as a DLNA server. If your NAS doesn't support this then you could install a server program on something else and point it to your NAS for content. This could be a spare computer, a device specifically made for this, or even some routers.

Try to use another media server like PS3 Media server or tvirsity. DNLA will not support MKV files.
Using PS3 Media server I can stream mkv to my ps3 and my Samsung LCD tv that supports DNLA.

Galaxy Tab as DLNA Client

Does anyone know how to get media streaming to the tab via DLNA? I know twonky works on most files, however, TVersity and PS3 Media Server do not. Does anyone have a supported file type and codec support paper? Has anyone got a way to make all file types work, even if they have to be transcoded?

Dona doesn't transcode. And there's Sammy's Dona client preinstalled - its called allshare.
For crappy transfixing on the fly try vocal stream and convert.though why you want to do this when you have allshare is a mystery.

I know DLNA itself does not transcode. I am looking to see if someone knows of a DLNA server that will transcode into the proper format for Allshare. Allshare has brutal file support, as It will not play any file I have without transcoding. Might also be a MIME type issue, just seeing how everyone is streaming to the Tab.

I have never had to transcode anything in order to dlna share with allshare. My bids are all in avi though as far as I recall. Music and images all work fine too. They are all mp3 and jpg respectively.
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I don't think it's the codec support as such but rather how the DLNA server is presenting the video to Allshare, it's obviously VERY picky as I've had no luck at all getting it to play anything that plays fine when copied to the Tab itself.
Twonky is a pretty crappy application IMHO, I've always found it very unreliable. PS3 media server might work? TVersity is a bit bloated but is another option. The latter 2 will (I believe) stream and/or transcode as needed.

knightnz said:
I don't think it's the codec support as such but rather how the DLNA server is presenting the video to Allshare, it's obviously VERY picky as I've had no luck at all getting it to play anything that plays fine when copied to the Tab itself.
Twonky is a pretty crappy application IMHO, I've always found it very unreliable. PS3 media server might work? TVersity is a bit bloated but is another option. The latter 2 will (I believe) stream and/or transcode as needed.
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I use miniDLNA on o rooted, Linux based NAS box. Had no problems so far. If you are or can run Linux I'd recommend miniDLNA.

Have you tried serviio? I use this on Win7 with my Samsung TV.

you can use astro to fiddle with extension headers (but i find allshare works almost flawlessly with the new official jk5 firmware)

ftgg99 said:
you can use astro to fiddle with extension headers (but i find allshare works almost flawlessly with the new official jk5 firmware)
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Official JK5, you mean via Kies? Is it out?
If so, is it different from the Samfirmware one? Kies says to me that my device "can not" be updated, not that it "does not" need updating.

[Q] Problem using DLNA

I'm unable to play media from my PC on my Atrix using DLNA. I get a message that reads " Sorry, internal error happened. The media file cannot be streaming played." Any ideas?

I'm able to stream and copy mp4s to my device no problem from a NAS. Most likely is a file compatibility issue. I couldn't play mpeg2s, but xvids played fine. Protected content wouldn't play either but that's to be expected.

My Xvids won't play.

I was having problems accessing PlayOn through DLNA.
UPDATE: Using the PlayOn Android apps works.

Bon1380 said:
My Xvids won't play.
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Sorry, the file i was looking at had Xvid in it. It was actually an avi.

same problem here
if i copy the file to the phone using dlna itll play
but choosing to play directly itll give the error above

Bon1380 said:
I'm unable to play media from my PC on my Atrix using DLNA. I get a message that reads " Sorry, internal error happened. The media file cannot be streaming played." Any ideas?
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I can't use the DLNA with my Logitech Revue and with my PS3 I can only stream MP4 files. AVI's which play on my device can't be sent over DLNA yet if those files are on my PS3 they can be played.

If you can spare the CPU cycles, transcoding video through TVersity works great. So far I've had best results transcoding to WMV9. I haven't found anything it can't handle yet, and my video archive is a mishmash of containers and codecs.
I can stream an x264 mkv 1080p source to the Atrix as qhd wmv9 and it looks fantastic.
Does require a lot of CPU on the box running TVersity, so not a necessarily great solution for those currently using a nas or other embedded device for a DLNA server.
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anyone able to get DLNA to work? I'm trying to stream some moves in .avi from my computer to my atrix by using DLNA, i can hear but no pictures. Does anybody know why?

What video codec is in your avi's? I was able to play most xvid avi's with other DLNA streamers like Fuppes before I switched to transcoding everything through TVersity.
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dingleberry1 said:
If you can spare the CPU cycles, transcoding video through TVersity works great. So far I've had best results transcoding to WMV9. I haven't found anything it can't handle yet, and my video archive is a mishmash of containers and codecs.
I can stream an x264 mkv 1080p source to the Atrix as qhd wmv9 and it looks fantastic.
Does require a lot of CPU on the box running TVersity, so not a necessarily great solution for those currently using a nas or other embedded device for a DLNA server.
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Q: How did you get DLNA to play MKVs over TVersity streaming? Everytime i try to do that it says the media file can not be played. Before I had it Configured for my Xbox 360 so while the video of mkvs wouldn't show up, audio was crystal clear, now it only plays AVIs not MKVs not even audio always gives the media file cannot be played error. Can you post all your setting for tversity? I'd Appreciate that very much!

ps3 media server possible transcoding?

can someone try to work on ps3 media server settings ,on the fly trans coding maybe is better option then changing whole library of movies.It work for xbox maybe its gonna work on transformer
# ps3mediaserver renderer profile for Android
# Refer to PS3.conf for help
RendererName=Android
RendererIcon=android.png
UserAgentSearch=Android
Video=true
Audio=true
Image=true
SeekByTime=false
TranscodeVideo=MPEGAC3
TranscodeAudio=MP3
DefaultVBVBufSize=true
MuxH264ToMpegTS=true
MuxDTSToMpeg=true
WrapDTSIntoPCM=false
MuxLPCMToMpeg=true
MaxVideoBitrateMbps=0
MaxVideoWidth=0
MaxVideoHeight=0
TranscodeExtensions=
StreamExtensions=hdmov,hdm,flac,fla,dts,ogg,asf,asx,m2v,mkv

it wont work. the only thing you can transcode too is mpeg2 which the transformer cant do over upnp. mp4 cant be live streamed over upnp only over rtsp or rtmp, if you really want live transcoding look at vlc media player and vlc s+c for android. it takes a lot of tweaking but does work.

can you provide some more information about the transcode capabilities such as the lackof mpeg streaming

SangreSlayer said:
can you provide some more information about the transcode capabilities such as the lackof mpeg streaming
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I have had no problems streaming mpeg2 even to the native player with Mediatomb. In fact, you can directly play mpeg2 files from an internet site (internet archive) if you have enough bandwidth. Even the matroska format will stream, although without sound and at an unpredictable framerate. Still, I think that problem is on the encoding side.

So what your saying is you can transcode with PS3 media server?
IE: if you were to take a video gotten from a generic source, lets say via bittorrent you can stream that with the PS3 media server?
Any video I try does not work. it only works if I transcode it with handbrake first.
any tips would be greatly appreciated.

SangreSlayer said:
So what your saying is you can transcode with PS3 media server?
IE: if you were to take a video gotten from a generic source, lets say via bittorrent you can stream that with the PS3 media server?
Any video I try does not work. it only works if I transcode it with handbrake first.
any tips would be greatly appreciated.
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If I was you I would go and get a WD media player. They go for about 60-90 bucks. I used the PS3 for about a year and I gave up. Mkv is not support on ps3 media server. Videos that it cant play you're pc will need to transcode before sending it over to your display. I ended up getting a dedicated media player. There are tons to choose from. WD, boxee, popcorn hour and dune players. No issues streaming 20-30GB blu ray movies when I had the WD player. PS3 sucks for streaming IMHO.

Actually, mpeg2 can be streamed over upnp.
Try this:
Code:
# ps3mediaserver renderer profile for Android
# Refer to PS3.conf for help
RendererName=Android
RendererIcon=android.png
UserAgentSearch=Android
Video=true
Audio=true
Image=true
SeekByTime=false
TranscodeVideo=MPEGAC3
TranscodeAudio=MP3
DefaultVBVBufSize=true
MuxH264ToMpegTS=false
MuxDTSToMpeg=false
WrapDTSIntoPCM=false
MuxLPCMToMpeg=false
MaxVideoBitrateMbps=0
MaxVideoWidth=0
MaxVideoHeight=0
TranscodeExtensions=
StreamExtensions=

frosty5689 said:
Actually, mpeg2 can be streamed over upnp.
Try this:
Code:
# ps3mediaserver renderer profile for Android
# Refer to PS3.conf for help
RendererName=Android
RendererIcon=android.png
UserAgentSearch=Android
Video=true
Audio=true
Image=true
SeekByTime=false
TranscodeVideo=MPEGAC3
TranscodeAudio=MP3
DefaultVBVBufSize=true
MuxH264ToMpegTS=false
MuxDTSToMpeg=false
WrapDTSIntoPCM=false
MuxLPCMToMpeg=false
MaxVideoBitrateMbps=0
MaxVideoWidth=0
MaxVideoHeight=0
TranscodeExtensions=
StreamExtensions=
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Though it should be worth noting UPnPlay doesn't send a "streaming end" HTTP header to the UPNP server, so after you play one video PS3 media server doesn't know you stopped watching the video and will be stuck in the "streaming mode", causing any other video not to load until you restart PS3 Media Server. This problem only persists iwth PMS, Serviio works fine if you set the transcoding profile. I wish PMS worked as it is the only Server with full softsub support.
Edit: Opps accidentally pressed "Quote" instead of edit...

Just wanted to make sure i am trying with the same player as you.
I am using the "my Net" and selecting the ps3 media server from there.
With the new settings, when I go to play it it just hangs with "please Wait" previously it would just immediately end with "fail to load"

SangreSlayer said:
Just wanted to make sure i am trying with the same player as you.
I am using the "my Net" and selecting the ps3 media server from there.
With the new settings, when I go to play it it just hangs with "please Wait" previously it would just immediately end with "fail to load"
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Did you edit Android.conf with my profile and then restarted the server? Also, use Upnplay combined with MoboPlayer.

I did edit the file with your settings and restart the server. Will download Upbplay (already have mobo installed).
Update in a few minutes

That does seem to work. I am able to play non HD videos.
I was able to play different video's back to back without restarting, I tested with three different videos, watch 1 min of each.
I tested out a topgear episode that is 720p. My PC says its being trans-coded, but moboplayer just says "loading". After 1.5 minutes i cancelled out by going "home"
I then restarted the PS3 media server and reloaded upnplay and tried the video again. my PC still says transcoding and serving but mobo is stuck on loading.
Under Transcoding settings, i don't have Avisynth/FFmpeg or Avisynth/Mencoder available as they are marked red if that means anything
Any suggestions?
Thanks for being so helpful. I really appreciate it.

I know this post is asking about ps3 media server, and I have tried to use it also, but what I have found is a media server called PLEX, there is a mac/windows/even Linux server version, then you get the client on the app store for $5. I can not believe how well this app allows me to stream VOB/MKV/MPG,etc, and it allows me to do this all the way up to HIGH PROFILE 1080p MKV, oh and it also allows me to do this on a remote wifi connection or even on 3g, it really is amazing what these guys have pulled together. The other HUGE plus is it is a branch off of XBMC, so you have the same similar interface with all scraping, etc automatically, it can also do music and supports plugins. Anyways I would suggest you try it, server is free to download, and the app is so worth the measly $5, just suggest you get the server all setup and working before you buy the app. but even if you don;t like it the plex team will refund your money if you are not happy so there is really no remorse checking it out. Hope this helps, I am off to watch a 1080p high profile mkv on my transformer >

I think OP is trying to get PMS working so he can watch media on his PS3 too without running 2 servers. As to why HD vids don't play, maybe it didn't detect the need to transcode it, I need to look into this again after exam's over (maybe that'll explain why my videos didn't play properly when I tested), feel free to use the PS3.conf and try different things. It doesn't matter if you have ffdshow/avisynth, it uses bundled mencoder to re-encode. All that matters i that your PC can play the video fine in DirectShow players like Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, Zoom Player.

I tried the above .conf file settings and still when running an HD video
it won't limit the video size
is there a way to transcode down into say
800x480
I tried this
MaxVideoWidth=800
MaxVideoHeight=480

RobH79: Thanks for the information. So far I am most of the the way to my end goal. The last hold out being the 720p video's.
I believe the OP (like myself) do not want to run 2x renders, one for the PS3, one for the tablet.
Frosty:
The video does play fine on my PC using VLC but not with Windows media player ( I anticipate this is why all my below troubleshooting did nothing based upon your last response.)
I have done some more testing and tried a few different settings in the config, such as
MaxVideoWidth=800
MaxVideoHeight=600
and MaxVideoBitrateMbps=3
so far nothing has worked.
The video does play fine on my PC using VLC. I still see PS3 Media Server using the transcoding buffer, and Mencoder is using varying amounts of CPU and the java memory size is increasing as time goes on (I assume filling up the buffer)
**Update Since I started typing**
I went to: http://matroska.org/technical/guides/playback/windows/index.html and found out that i needed the CCCP pack, i usually dont install it on my system from a bad experience many years ago.
However I installed it and now it plays fine in windows media player.
I loaded up PS3 Media server and tried streaming again from my tablet...
And no luck, same issue as before. I went through all the other variations of the tweaks above and also no luck.
Any other suggestions?

I also tried to get myNet working, but i found this.
myNet uses AwoX as UserAgent name. So copy Android.conf and rename the file and change from:
UserAgentSearch=Android
to
UserAgentSearch=AwoX
But all upnp clients that you can download in the market use Android.conf. I know so far that only AVIs/WMV are working. However no MKVs.

ok... just my 2 cents
I have a tonido plug running ubuntun 9.04 and mediatomb as a server, no transcoding eneabled.
I installed UPnPlay from market as a upnp renderer (audio only, but support to stream video with external palyer)
I got DicePlayer (paid app) and am able to stream mkv, avi, mov, mp4 containers, even some movies that have srt or sub subtitles, however if I connect my tablet to a TV via HDMI I only get the video and not the subs... MyNet app gives a lot of trouble working with m3u playlists and can only render a file at a time, meaning if you want to play continous audio/viedo you need to go one by one manually.
So far I'm happy with this setup, planning on upgragind my local WLAN to "N" standard byt so far 54gb are good, not exellent
On the down side, I haven't got the time to tweak mediatomb to present in a convinient way video files, it throws everything regardless of the folder structure you have on the server hard disk
Edit, if you know how to hard encode and stream subtitles info is appreciated, also if you know to send subs via HDMI to tv I'll be grateful