Does the 2TB drive not need to be a DLNA Certified device?
I don't know. The Sony product spec talks about DLNA, and doesn't say about connecting to a network drive as such.
Are you able to get the files on to your DNLA Server?
Not sure what you mean. I have been using that network drive for ages, for storing stills and movies etc. It is fully accessible from any computer on the LAN.
Another idea might be to put the video files in a root directory on the ext drive. Just a long shot.
Interesting... but if this works it would not be a useful solution (e.g. I have 65GB of stills
).
You've probably seen
THIS link, which gives the various definitions.
Yes. It doesn't say one has to do any special steps to make it work. Merely enabling a DLNA server on the network drive ought to work, and I cannot see any other config.
As for the conversions. have you looked at MakeMKV for the disc conversions, (VLC will play .MKV files) then Any Video Converter for the final product?
Many thanks; will check them out. I am sure there are good tools for this stuff. I probably need to get everything into .mts (AVCHD) to play it on the brain-dead Sony