Hi there,
I have got a Plex Server running on my RPi, DLNA is activated and I also set up a DLNA profile for my LG-TV (37LV5590).
From the log files I can tell that the LG-TV seems to be using the DLNA profile.
So the thing is that if I play media on the LG TV via DLNA-Source it does use the profile, because I configured the profile to transcode ALAC audio to mp3 and it does that when I use the Standard DLNA as Source Signal for the TV, but neither the Medialink-App nor an older Plex App for the LG TV wants to do any transcoding and just tells me the media is not supported.
Do the plex App and the Medialink App even use DLNA ?
The Medialink just tells me straight up that the media is not supported, the Plex App tries to play the media without an error but simply doesn’t play it. Only when I choose DLNA as Source in the standard folder browser thing seems to recognize the transcoding from the profile
I mean is any of these the right way to play media from the plex server? Its an old TV so I guess there aren’t many options
Plex does not use your custom profile that you created for DLNA. For LG TVs, it appears to use a default profile named HTML TV App.xml as there is no specific xml file for LG, unlike Chromecast, Sony, Samsung etc. You can create a custom profile with the same name (HTML TV App.xml) in the directory where your custom DLNA profile exists. You can essentially copy the contents of your custom DLNA profile into it, including the translation of flac to mp3, but without the identification section. Where the original xml file contains "Client name=“HTML TV APP” " you can use the model number given by the Plex client on your TV. You can see this model number by looking at the Plex Media Server.log which should be something like 37LV5590-XX (XX will be the 2 letter code for your model which is different for each country). Do not include any description used in your custom DLNA xml that uses the name setup in your TVs network menu ([LG] webOS TV LV5590 for example) in order to keep the profile used separate for DLNA and Plex. The reason for this is primarily because the Plex client on your TV is HTML based and may have restrictions on what Plex can direct play versus what your TV will support using DLNA.
