Page 1 of 1

mp4 wont play properly on sony bdp s370

PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:18 pm
by maltmoose
Hi,
All mp4 video file thats created by my sony camera dont play properly. Essential the mp4 starts to play and then freezes then trys to play some sound and then some video but cant seem to do it all at the same time in a stuttering fashion.

Heres the output of the file, any ideas?

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg.exe -i "G:\Video\Sony DSC-TX5\M4H00118.MP4"
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

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 30000.00 (300
00/1) -> 29.97 (30000/1001)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'G:\Video\Sony DSC-TX5\M4H00118.MP4':
Metadata:
major_brand : MSNV
minor_version : 19595353
compatible_brands: MSNVmp42isom
creation_time : 2011-06-07 12:49:21
Duration: 00:00:05.50, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 9307 kb/s
Stream #0.0(und): Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 1280x720 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 9238 k
b/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn, 30k tbc
Metadata:
creation_time : 2011-06-07 12:49:21
Stream #0.1(und): Audio: aac, 24000 Hz, mono, s16, 64 kb/s
Metadata:
creation_time : 2011-06-07 12:49:21
At least one output file must be specified

Need any more info let me know, thanks mm

Re: mp4 wont play properly on sony bdp s370

PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:09 pm
by zip
check detailed log of when you play the file. If it's transcoded, try to run the ffmpeg command manually and play the resulting file (either in vlc or rename to .mpg and add to Serviio's library) to see if it's got the same problems.

Re: mp4 wont play properly on sony bdp s370

PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:20 pm
by maltmoose
Renamed the file to end in .mpg and it has the same problem.
dont think .mp4 or .mpg is being transcoded as the log says delivered in native format.

I think it might be to do with the average bit rate of the file, according to the bit rate viewer its average rate is higher than any other movie i have (average 9328kbps)
anyway to get serviio to reduce this or any way to confirm this theory?

Re: mp4 wont play properly on sony bdp s370

PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:33 pm
by zip
you'd have to set up transcoding for mp4 and set maxVBitrate... but 900kb is not too high, it should go up to 20mbit (at least at peaks)

Re: mp4 wont play properly on sony bdp s370

PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:24 pm
by maltmoose
you might be right zip, i could be something else funny about the mp4, but i'd like to eliminate the rate for sure but i'm having a little trouble setting up a transcoding profile for mp4, not sure what target container and targetvcodec i should be using

Re: mp4 wont play properly on sony bdp s370

PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:58 pm
by maltmoose
OK did a bit more testing and have discovered that if i play the sony cameras mpeg4 files directly from a usb device pluged into the sony bdps370 the video plays fine.

I'm not sure what this means exactly, but maybe the s370 isnt powerful enough to both play and stream certain files via dlna at the same time? or maybe there are known limits of this technology.

Re: mp4 wont play properly on sony bdp s370

PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:34 am
by Cerberus
maltmoose wrote:OK did a bit more testing and have discovered that if i play the sony cameras mpeg4 files directly from a usb device pluged into the sony bdps370 the video plays fine.

I'm not sure what this means exactly, but maybe the s370 isnt powerful enough to both play and stream certain files via dlna at the same time? or maybe there are known limits of this technology.


USB and DLNA are two completely different systems and can not be compared..