Playing MKV on Samsung C

Hi,

I have been using serviio for a while and it used to play mkv without problem. I can still play some of the mkv in smaller size, but for some reason, I can't no longer play the large size mkv (4GB above). Whenever I tried to play it, it will say that file format is not supported and immediately, the serviio server will be disconnected from my tv. it will take a while before it connects again, which is strange.

anyone has experienced the same problem before?

thanks.

[Illico]

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1123

[zip]

If they are transcoded, make sure you have enough space in the transcoding temp folder

I am using Windows 7 64-bit, here are the info

FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jan 10 2011 21:46:22 with gcc 4.4.2
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-shared --disable-ffp
lay --disable-ffserver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --arch=x86 --e
nable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-w32threads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i
686-mingw32-
libavutil 50.36. 0 / 50.36. 0
libavcore 0.16. 0 / 0.16. 0
libavcodec 52.108. 0 / 52.108. 0
libavformat 52.92. 0 / 52.92. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 3 / 52. 2. 3
libavfilter 1.72. 0 / 1.72. 0
libswscale 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0

[Illico]

Something is missing.
ffmpeg -i "filepath"

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Doelski>cd "\Program Files (x86)\Serviio\Lib

C:\Program Files (x86)\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg.exe -i "E:\New\What Just Happened - 10
80p.mkv
FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jan 10 2011 21:46:22 with gcc 4.4.2
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-shared --disable-ffp
lay --disable-ffserver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --arch=x86 --e
nable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-w32threads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i
686-mingw32-
libavutil 50.36. 0 / 50.36. 0
libavcore 0.16. 0 / 0.16. 0
libavcodec 52.108. 0 / 52.108. 0
libavformat 52.92. 0 / 52.92. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 3 / 52. 2. 3
libavfilter 1.72. 0 / 1.72. 0
libswscale 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0
[matroska,webm @ 012ebcc0] max_analyze_duration reached
[matroska,webm @ 012ebcc0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccur
ate

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 47.95 (500000
0/104271) -> 23.98 (5000000/208542)
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'E:\New\What Just Happened - 1080p.mkv':
Duration: 01:43:59.27, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1536 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x800, PAR 1:1 DAR 12:5, 23.98 fp
s, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: dca, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 1536 kb/s
Stream #0.2(eng): Subtitle: [0][0][0][0] / 0x0000
Stream #0.3(bul): Subtitle: [0][0][0][0] / 0x0000
Stream #0.4(hrv): Subtitle: [0][0][0][0] / 0x0000
Stream #0.5(dut): Subtitle: [0][0][0][0] / 0x0000
Stream #0.6(por): Subtitle: [0][0][0][0] / 0x0000
Stream #0.7(rum): Subtitle: [0][0][0][0] / 0x0000
Stream #0.8(spa): Subtitle: [0][0][0][0] / 0x0000
Stream #0.9(tur): Subtitle: [0][0][0][0] / 0x0000
At least one output file must be specified

C:\Program Files (x86)\Serviio\lib>

[zip]

This file should play natively with the C profile, so no transcoding is going on. Not sure why it's not working - did this file play before?

yes it played before... the weird thing is after it fails to play, the serviio server will be disconnected from my TV

[moltra]

Have you changed anything else on the computer? Did you change the location of serviio? What are the file systems on the drives involved.

Fat32 max file size 4 GB
NTFS up to 16 Exabyte which is 1 million terabytes

If you are using Fat32 maybe something is increasing the file size enough to hit the 4GB limit?

no didn't change anything... trying to copy to other drive and see if it works

I have the same problem with playing mkv files now, before i could play all mkv files, but now it not working anymore :/ and its the same files I have played before without Any problems, and i didnt change anything on the server at all

[YTMY]

Hi, sometimes (for me) such things occur because of the router. I would try restarting the router. Also if Your TV is connected to the router wirelessly the signal may be too weak.

From my experience DLNA is very sensitive to the quality of the signal (and the router).

Good luck.

[Cerberus]

Hi, sometimes (for me) such things occur because of the router. I would try restarting the router. Also if Your TV is connected to the router wirelessly the signal may be too weak.

From my experience DLNA is very sensitive to the quality of the signal (and the router).

Good luck.

that is so true.. you get what u pay for with routers

I noticed that my Samsung C-series c5900 BD player will not play any mkv with chapter information.
Try to remove those, ie extract the video and audio tracks and remerge those in a new mkv file.

i know a step by step guide on how to play any video format including AVI, MKV, WMV, RM, FLV, MOV, Xvid, DivX, 3GP, WebM, VP8 and more on Samsung at http://www.bigasoft.com/articles/how-to-convert-video-to-samsung-galaxy.html