[SOLVED] Transcoding support for SMP-N100

Don't know if this helps or not, but I bumped the logging to DEBUG and while tailing the log file and browsing to a directory that contains MKVs I captured the below snippet.


2011-02-14 21:13:04,741 DEBUG [MetadataDescriptorDAOImpl] Reading MetadataDescriptor for MediaItem (id = 1121) and extractor EMBEDDED
2011-02-14 21:13:04,741 DEBUG [WebServer] Incoming connection from /192.168.11.102:60475
2011-02-14 21:13:04,742 DEBUG [MetadataDescriptorDAOImpl] Reading MetadataDescriptor for MediaItem (id = 1121) and extractor COVER_IMAGE_IN_FOLDER
2011-02-14 21:13:04,838 DEBUG [ServiceControlRequestHandler] ServiceControl request received for action '"urn:schemas-upnp-org:service:ContentDirectory:1#Browse"' from 192.168.11.102:
2011-02-14 21:13:04,838 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 192.168.11.102
2011-02-14 21:13:04,842 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Getting file of media item 1122
2011-02-14 21:13:04,843 DEBUG [MetadataDescriptorDAOImpl] Reading MetadataDescriptor for MediaItem (id = 1122) and extractor EMBEDDED
2011-02-14 21:13:04,844 DEBUG [MetadataDescriptorDAOImpl] Reading MetadataDescriptor for MediaItem (id = 1122) and extractor COVER_IMAGE_IN_FOLDER
2011-02-14 21:13:04,859 DEBUG [ContentDirectory] Browse() called for profile Generic DLNA profile with parameters: objectID = V_F#FOL_R1$F23, browseFlag = BrowseDirectChildren, filter = av:mediaClass,dc:title,dc:date,@childCount,upnp:class,res,res@resolution,res@protocolInfo,res@size,res@duration,res@bitrate,res@dlna:ifoFileURI, startIndex = 0, count = 10, sortCriteria =
2011-02-14 21:13:04,859 DEBUG [LocalContentCacheDecorator] Found entry in the cache (local_default), returning it
2011-02-14 21:13:04,867 DEBUG [ServiceControlRequestHandler] Returning OK SOAP message
2011-02-14 21:13:04,945 DEBUG [MediaItemDAOImpl] Getting file of media item 1123

[Illico]

Select the proper modified profile, not "Generic DLNA"

That did it. I'm now able to successfully watch an MKV encoded with H.264 and AC3. Thanks!

You can try the solution found here viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1911. It might not work for your particular problem, but it did for me.

Hi defresh, could you share your solution to watch MKV movies?

thanks

This should make the N100 play just about anything you can throw at it. Let me know if something you have doesn't work.

<Profile id="14" name="SMP-N100" extendsProfileId="1">
<Transcoding>
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3">
<Matches container="matroska" />
<Matches container="avi" vCodec="h264" />
<Matches container="flv" vCodec="h264" />
<Matches container="mp4" />
</Video>
<!-- all other unplayable files just transcode to mpeg2 -->
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
<Matches container="flv" />
</Video>

I can confirm that this works with the addition of two missing lines at the end:

  Code:

</Transcoding>
</Profile>

(Without these, the profiles.xml file isn't valid, and the Serviio service fails to start).
After creating this profile and applying it to my SMP-N100, I was able to see and play all my .MP4 and .MKV files

[patters]

By the way that's transcoding everything to mpeg2 which is hardly ideal given that the player supports most formats natively.

What region player do you have? My Euro one plays everything if I edit the Sony BD Player profile to detect the string "Media Player" (there was a typo in Serviio 0.6's profiles.xml unfortunately so it won't auto detect - that was my fault )

Hi. Please forgive me, but I am a total newbie. Where do I enter this code to stream MKV on my SNPN100? I use Serviio as my media server. Thanks!

[patters]

Stop Serviio. Then edit config/profiles.xml to change profile id 10 (Sony BDP) from:

  Code:

                <Detection>
                        <UPnPSearch>
                                <FriendlyName>(Blu-ray Disc Player|Blu-ray Home Theat(re|er) System)</FriendlyName>
                        </UPnPSearch>
                        <HttpHeaders>
                                <X-AV-Client-Info>(.*Blu-ray Disc Player.*|.*Blu-ray Home Theat(re|er) System.*)</X-AV-Client-Info>
                        </HttpHeaders>
                </Detection>


to:

  Code:

                <Detection>
                        <UPnPSearch>
                                <FriendlyName>(Blu-ray Disc Player|Blu-ray Home Theat(re|er) System|Media Player)</FriendlyName>
                        </UPnPSearch>
                        <HttpHeaders>
                                <X-AV-Client-Info>(.*Blu-ray Disc Player.*|.*Blu-ray Home Theat(re|er) System.*|.*Media Player.*)</X-AV-Client-Info>
                        </HttpHeaders>
                </Detection>


Works perfectly, Patters. Thank you!

[patters]

np. That will be fixed in the next release.