Nick Payne

Since the last webos update to 3.40.87, I find I have to completely power cycle the TV (a G1 65" OLED) every week or so to get the DLNA client back to functioning properly. I have a media server running Serviio on a Raspberry Pi, and I periodically get one of the following two problems, both of which are fixed by completely power-cycling the TV. When I'm using the DLNA client to select videos from the server, I get no response from trying to select a video or series using the remote. The remote continues to work fine when used with other apps (eg Netflix, Stan etc) on the TV. When the DLNA client is playing a video from the server, the audio is delayed by a couple of seconds from the video. At the time that the TV is showing either of these problems, I can access the media server using either BubbleUPnP on my phone or VLC on my PC, and neither of them have any problem either selecting videos or playing them back with the audio synced with the video, so the problem is clearly with the TV, and power-cycling the TV gets rid of whichever problem is manifesting itself.

Since the latest update to the Binge app on my LG G1 OLED, whenever I try to watch any program on Binge, about every ten minutes or so the app puts up a message on screen saying that it needs to restart to recover memory, and then restarts. And when I go back to the program, the app doesn't remember how much of the program has already been viewed, and starts again from the beginning - I have to fast forward through it to get to the correct point. None of the other streaming apps I use on the TV - Netflix, Prime Video, Stan, Apple TV - have any such problem, and if I switch to viewing using Chromecast with Google TV, which has the Android Binge app installed on it, I can stream programs from Binge without any such problem.

On our set (G1 OLED) it still stutters. I started watching Van Der Valk with the iView app on the TV last night, but after the first couple of stutters switched to iView on my Chromecast, where I don't get the stutter. There was no notification either when powering on the TV or starting the iView app that an update was available.

I can stream ABC content using either the iView app on our LG G1 65" OLED, or via the iView Android TV app that is installed on a Chromecast with Google TV that is plugged into one of the G1 HDMI ports. If I stream content using the app on the TV, every few minutes there's a momentary (fraction of a second) interruption to both sound and video. If I stream the same content using the app on the Chromecast, I get no such interruptions. Both TV and Chromecast are using wired Ethernet connections to the same switch, so I can't see that these interruptions are due to a network problem, or I'd see them on both devices. It would seem to be a problem with the app provided on the TV. Other streaming services that we access via apps on the TV (Netflix, Stan, Amazon Prime, etc) do not show the same problem.

We've had a 65" OLED G1 for a while (Australian model OLED65G1PUA.AUS). No problems with it until the latest software update that installed on it a couple of weeks ago (the set shows the current installed level as 03.21.05). Since the update, when streaming using one of the apps built into the TV, maybe once every couple of days the picture will freeze in the middle of playback, and two or three seconds later the TV kicks us back to the initial screen for the app that we are streaming from. We've had it happen with Binge, with Apple TV+, and with Amazon Prime. If we access the same streaming services using the Android version of the apps on a Chromecast with Google TV that I have plugged into one of the HDMI ports on the G1, we never see the same problem. As the problem doesn't happen with the Chromecast, it doesn't seem to be a network problem (both the Chromecast and G1 are using a wired Ethernet connection rather than WiFi); as it happens with multiple apps on the G1, it doesn't appear to be a problem with a specific app; and as it has only started happening since the software update to the TV, that points the finger at that update as being the cause of the problem. Any suggestions? There doesn't appear to be any officially supported way of downgrading the software on an LG set to the previous version to see if that gets rid of the problem.

I run a media server using Serviio on a Raspberry Pi (several thousand files just organised by folder structure), and I use the DLNA client built into WebOS to play the files from the server. For the past five years I've had an LG OLED55B6T, and due to a bit of burn-in on the screen, I've just replaced it with an OLED65G1PTA. One thing I notice with the new set is that it's much slower to navigate through the folder structure on the media server to get to the file I want to play. The difference seems to be that the DLNA client on the old TV just shows folders with a generic folder icon, whereas the new one wants to thumbnail each folder that's visible on the screen before it will allow me to continue. I haven't found anything in the settings to stop this behaviour - you can choose to display the folders as a grid or list, but either way it still tries to thumbnail each folder. As an experiment I installed Kodi on a Chromecast with Google TV that I have attached to the new set, as it can also act as a DLNA client, and it is also much faster to navigate through the folder structure on the media server. However, it has the drawback that if I stop watching a video part way through, it doesn't remember the point I was up to when I restart watching, whereas the client in the TV does. Any suggestions on a possible fix for speeding up the navigation?

I've just been testing playing 4k UHD Blu-Ray rips from my DLNA server to the DLNA client built into my OLED 55 B6T. The playback keeps stuttering because the bitrate can exceed 100Mbit, and the Ethernet connection on the TV is only 100Mbit. I know the problem isn't with the DLNA server because I can stream the same rips from the server to my PC, which has a gigabit NIC, and get no stuttering. Do later model LG sets have gigabit connections? I had a look on the LG website, but the specs for the sets just say they have a LAN connection without specifying the speed.

Pihole blocks YT ads on my network. You need some more blocklists. This is what I'm using: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_malvertising.txt https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains http://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts https://www.malwaredomainlist.com/hostslist/hosts.txt https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Airelle-hrsk.txt https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Shalla-mal.txt https://v.firebog.net/hosts/static/SamsungSmart.txt https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easyprivacy.txt https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/adac7982307fec6ee23605e281a57f1a/raw/5b8582b906a9497624c3f3187a49ebc23a9cf2fb/Test.txt https://v.firebog.net/hosts/Easylist.txt https://v.firebog.net/hosts/AdguardDNS.txt https://gitlab.com/quidsup/notrack-blocklists/raw/master/notrack-blocklist.txt https://gitlab.com/quidsup/notrack-blocklists/raw/master/notrack-malware.txt https://www.stopforumspam.com/downloads/toxic_domains_whole.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blocklistproject/Lists/master/abuse.txt https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blocklistproject/Lists/master/ads.txt I also have a few regex blacklist entries: (^|\.)doubleclick\.net$ ^(.+[_.-])?ad([sxv]?[0-9]*|system)[_.-] ^(.+[_.-])?adse?rv(er?|ice)?s?[0-9]*[_.-] ^adim(age|g)s?[0-9]*[_.-] ^adtrack(er|ing)?[0-9]*[_.-] ^advert(s|is(ing|ements?))?[0-9]*[_.-] ^aff(iliat(es?|ion))?[_.-] ^analytics?[_.-] ^banners?[_.-] ^beacons?[0-9]*[_.-] ^count(ers?)?[0-9]*[_.-] ^stat(s|istics)?[0-9]*[_.-] ^track(ing)?[0-9]*[_.-]

Run Pihole as the DNS for your network, and it will block ads, trackers, malware, etc for all devices on your network without needing adblockers on any of them. I run mine on a headless Raspberry Pi. Some quite good setup instructions here: https://blog.cryptoaustralia.org.au/instructions-for-setting-up-pi-hole/; the Pihole website here: https://pi-hole.net/.

I'm using Serviio on a Raspberry Pi as my DLNA server. If I rip a DVD/Blu-Ray movie with MakeMKV, retaining the chapters from the disc, I can use VLC as the DLNA client on my PC to play the rip from Serviio on the Pi, and I can access the chapters in the ripped file, jumping forwards and backwards from chapter to chapter. However, if I use the DLNA client in my LG OLED55B6T to play the same rip, the chapters can't be accessed - trying to do so jumps to the next/previous rip in the folder on the server. Has anyone managed to get chapters working with the DLNA client on an LG TV? p.s. I also tested by connecting a Chromecast to the TV, and using BubbleuPnP on my phone as the DLNA client and casting the phone to the TV. That method also allows me to access the chapters on the movie rip, so it looks even more as though this is a shortcoming in the DLNA client built into the TV.