Panasonic Viera TV help?

[Graham S]

Weird question but do any of you guys/girls have any tech knowledge with Panasonic plasma TV's? I've just bought the GT30 plasma, which I bought to replace a series 6 Samsung LCD (C650, 5 months old!) in our bedroom. I chose the GT30 as it's suppose to have next to zero lag for gaming as well as having the best picture quality of them all!

 

Now, originally, the Samsung was connected via ethernet cable to my home network, so I could watch all my media from my media centre machine downstairs (.mkv (HD 1080, 720 etc and .avi, normal TV shows, non HD movies etc). The Samsung would see everything on my media centre and play them all with no trouble, straight out the box.

So, buying the all singing, all dancing GT30 model Panasonic, having .mkv playback etc etc even written on the box dragging it upstairs, mounting it all on the wall, firing it up and then finding it won't play .mkv or even .avi files is rather annoying! It will see the files on the media centre but comes up saying 'file not supported'.

 

The Mrs contacted Panasonic, and they told her the program I use (Tversity) should work but if it doesn't then I need to re-encode all my media to one supported! Problem being, I have over 1TB of media, and this would take weeks!

 

I tried another program they suggested Mezzmo, which I installed, again, wouldn't stream to the TV. It gave me the option to re-encode again but that's just not an option for me. I'm ready to pack the TV up and send it back again but do any of you know how I could either encode my files to a supported format without quality loss or any other way of streaming this DLNA stuff to my TV?

 

Hope this makes sence to someone as it's confusing the hell out of me now! It says it plays mkv through DLNA but it doesn't. How do I encode mkv to something that works?