Sony Bravia 2009 Series KDL-40WE5

Just when I thought the the Sony Bravia TV (2009) profile was more or less stable, I came across several videos where the lip movements were very noticeably out of sync with the associated dialogue.

Changing targetACodec="ac3" to targetACodec="mp3" seemed to make the dialogue appear more natural with the lip movements.

  Code:

 <Profile id="9" name="Sony Bravia TV" extendsProfileId="1">
           
            <Detection>
                <X-AV-Client-Info>BRAVIA.*</X-AV-Client-Info>
            </Detection>                   

            <Transcoding>

                <Video targetContainer="mpeg" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="mp3" maxVBitrate="15360">
                   <Matches container="asf" />
                   <Matches container="avi" />
                   <Matches container="matroska" />
                   <Matches container="mp4" />
                   <Matches container="mpegts" />                   
                </Video>

            </Transcoding>

         </Profile>

FFmpeg -i on the movie concerned, revealed the movie had an mp3 audio channel, so transcoding to ac3 in the previous profile, intoduced a lag in the audio.

Since then I have removed targetACodec from the Sony Bravia TV profile so there is no transcoding of the audio stream. So far so good.

[zip]

So did this profile work in the end? viewtopic.php?f=5&t=429&start=30#p2468

Lip sync problem might be caused by old version of ffmpeg, not sure though.

Just un-installed Serviio 0.4.1 and installed 0.4.2 and selected Sony Bravia TV and the dreaded "There is no items to display" is back again.

Immediately tried the old profile above and edited profiles.xml for Profile ID=9, still no fun.

Looks like 0.4.2 not so sociable with the older 2009 model Sony Bravias.

On the Bravia XMB (Crossbar Menu), the Serviio Icon is a nice new touch, just need to fiddle with the Profile again to get it working.

Thanks for a great product.

Cheers
PaulBravia

[zip]

It should work with the older profile in the same way. I did send you a beta to try out

Is it possible to highlight the main differences in the new profile.
By taking 0.4.1 profile for id=9 Sony Bravia and inserting into 0.4.2 does not seem to work

[zip]

post the detailed log.

[Illico]

Is it possible to highlight the main differences in the new profile.

You can have a look on release note:

- video files are now advertised for non EU (US, Korea) regions as well; issue #166
Previously (0.4.1) only MPEG_TS_SD_EU was provided by the default serviio profile, now added MPEG_TS_SD_NA and MPEG_TS_SD_KO (only EU is supported by your 2009 model) but serviio provides all 3 ressources _EU, _NA and _KO to the TV, you can verify in your detailed log file.

- added support for Mpeg2TS profile formats without timestamp or with zero/valid timestamp in their transport packet to support Sony Bravia TVs
DLNA specify 3 type of Mpeg2TS
[MPEG2-TS] 192-byte DLNA Transport Packet with a valid 4-byte timestamp field and a 188-byte MPEG Transport Stream Packet, video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts
[MPEG2-TS]_T 192-byte DLNA Transport Packet with zeros in a 4-byte timestamp field and a 188-byte MPEG Transport Stream Packet, video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts
[MPEG2-TS]_ISO 188-byte DLNA Transport Packet without a 4-byte timestamp field and a 188-byte MPEG Transport Stream Packet, video/mpeg
Your 2009 TV serie must support these 3 profiles.

- added profile for Sony Bravia TV; issue #153 (thanks to Illico)
Zip provided me a 0.4.2 beta version, that I validate with my 2010 model, but now we could validate this with your 2009 model.


EDIT: Do you have the latest firmwware version in your KDL-40WE5

Thanks Illico & Zip for your suggestions so far.

I fell back to Serviio 0.4.1 as my Partner wanted to watch movies instead of me spending too much testing out the new 0.4.2

So when I had a quiet moment I just tackled the 0.4.2 again with a much smaller video library with a mixed bag of video formats.

So far observed MKV files, the audio a little clipped but screen is black - no picture.

I see new Serviio Icon on Sony Bravia TV XMB menu. If I look in Serviio --> Video --> Folders OR Serviio --> Video --> All Titles, I see thumbnail of video and all videos play correctly except for MKV file as previously mentioned. I have ticked all of Metadata and even clicked "rescan video metadata" but only see a frame from the file and not DVD cover etc

When I go to Serviio --> Video --> Movies, I get "There are no items to display"

This all works great in 0.4.1 and I have DVD covers or metadata form TheMovieDb.org.

Thanks
PaulBravia

[Illico]

First, post a detailed log and "ffmpeg -i" of mkv file (with audio but no video for example) of course with your WAF