We recently purchased a Panasonic TC-P55UT50
It is currenlty running the latest firmware which is 1.230
This tv was NOT purchased for its dlna capabilities in any way
those abilities were just a bonus, price and picture quality were the criteria
But you know me, I had to see what it would and would not do with Twonky
One of the things I noticed was that the dlna client was honoring only some sorting
It would honor the container sorting criteria presented by twonky
meaning that the list of containers were shown in the order I wanted
It would honor the item order when viewing a playlist
meaning that the order in wich I have my items in a WPL are honored
It would NOT honor a default sort order of items in a container
meaning that the default sort order is alphanumeric
and the Panasonic TC-P55UT50 was sorting by date oldest to newest
NOTE:
The Panasonic TC-P55UT50 does NOT have any options to change sorting
so we are forced to do that at the server,
and are relying on the Panasonic TC-P55UT50 to honor what the server says
and not what the Panasonic TC-P55UT50 wants (which is by date)
luckily the following does allow for us to do that
If you edit the Panasonic_VIERA.xml
and add the following Quirk, save the file, restart the server
The Panasonic TC-P55UT50 will now honor sort orders
that are presented to it from Twonky Server
It is currenlty running the latest firmware which is 1.230
This tv was NOT purchased for its dlna capabilities in any way
those abilities were just a bonus, price and picture quality were the criteria
But you know me, I had to see what it would and would not do with Twonky
One of the things I noticed was that the dlna client was honoring only some sorting
It would honor the container sorting criteria presented by twonky
meaning that the list of containers were shown in the order I wanted
It would honor the item order when viewing a playlist
meaning that the order in wich I have my items in a WPL are honored
It would NOT honor a default sort order of items in a container
meaning that the default sort order is alphanumeric
and the Panasonic TC-P55UT50 was sorting by date oldest to newest
NOTE:
The Panasonic TC-P55UT50 does NOT have any options to change sorting
so we are forced to do that at the server,
and are relying on the Panasonic TC-P55UT50 to honor what the server says
and not what the Panasonic TC-P55UT50 wants (which is by date)
luckily the following does allow for us to do that
If you edit the Panasonic_VIERA.xml
and add the following Quirk, save the file, restart the server
The Panasonic TC-P55UT50 will now honor sort orders
that are presented to it from Twonky Server
<DeviceQuirks>
<Quirk>IGNORESORT</Quirk>
</DeviceQuirks>