Getting certain AVI files working on Sony 2013

Sony 2013 profile seems to be lacking a couple of transcoding configurations which doesn't allow it to play some old AVI files encoded using Divx. ffprobe showed that these are using mpeg4 vcodecs and are used various extensions (avi, divx, etc).

I had added the following transcoding options under the sony2013 profile (which I originally found under the sony2012 profile).

I am not sure if it is a gap in the specs of sony DLNA promise and what it really supports or the profile definition in serviio. Either ways the following works. Of course, saving the profile and restarting serviio service in necessary for these changes to take effect.

  Code:

 <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" DAR="16:9" forceInheritance="true">
<Matches container="mpegvideo" />
<Matches container="avi" vCodec="mpeg4" />
<Matches container="avi" vCodec="msmpeg4" />
...
....
</Video>


Hope someone will find this useful. Happy streaming !!.