LG BD670 Video streams (Online RSS & Live Stream)

Hi,
Can the LG BD-670 to work with the video streams (Online RSS or Live stream) on this Serviio media client. For me it does not work. All I have not tried, there is a message can not play this file.
What's the matter?

[will]

Can you give an example that you have tried?

Which profile are you using for your device (check using the serviio console)

OK, here's an example.
When you open the Console and enter Servia in status write:
IP: 192.168.1.100 Unrecognized device LG TV / player.
Serviio does not recognize this device and the profile I chose LG TV/player.
When I open Library in Online source,
I click on Add, and then in the "Source URL" for Online RSS/Atom feed enter such
https://sites.google.com/site/serviiors ... annels.rss
write in "Display name" HD Channels, then "Add", then "save" ...
On my TV to appear in "Online" icon "HD Channels". When I open the folder with "HD Channels" icons, appear in channels such as Animal Planet and others.
When I click on some of them after 10-15 seconds a message appears on the TV screen "Can not open this file"
Thus for any link RSS, also when I open the live stream.

[will]

OK, well thoses feeds are pretty unreliable and often go down. Can you try something else, or at least check it is online by adding it directly to VLC.

I tried almost all the links that are found online library and RSS on this web site (forum) and nothing works. I didn't tried via VLC, because I do not know how to do it. I have to find someone to try and Instruction.
Is it possible that we do not work because of a bad settings wireless router?

Today I posted about a similar issue with a 47LW5600 TV. Maybe I shouldn't have created that thread because this could be the same issue. I found only two streams which play almost every time. They're both in that post. I get much better results streaming from Serviio to VLC. Many more streams work, and playback starts faster.

I suggest installing VLC and trying streams through VLC. If nothing works then, your firewall may be blocking the copy of ffmpeg in the Serviio directory. If things do work, that means LG firmware doesn't like something about these streams. Perhaps transcoding could help?

[moltra]

All online sources are transcoded by default.

If there is a stream that you cannot play enable detailed logging and try and play the stream. Then look in the serviio.log file for the ffmepg command for the stream. Run that stream in a console and post the results here. You might have to put qoutation marks around everything after the ffmpeg -i

For FLV streams with H.264 video, the Generic DLNA profile retains the original video and only transcodes the audio, thanks to this:

  Code:

      <OnlineTranscoding>
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384">
            <Matches container="mp4"/>
            <Matches container="flv" vCodec="h264"/>
            <Matches container="applehttp" vCodec="h264"/>   
         </Video>

Both the LG profile in Serviio 0.6.2 and the new profile being developed here do not change this. When the TV tunes in, it reports the video is H.264. So, I added the following to my LG profile:

  Code:

        <OnlineTranscoding>
            <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384" >
                <Matches container="flv" />
            </Video>
        </OnlineTranscoding>

It helped a lot. I can now play most streams. I guess the LG 47LW5600 TV does not like errors in its H.264 bitstream. Now, if there are errors in the incoming bitstream, ffmpeg decodes it into a messed up image and encodes that messed up image into a perfectly valid MPEG2 bitstream. I can keep watching even if the stream has problems occasionally.

The only remaining problem is "source disconnected". I think that means the time needed to start the stream exceeded the TV's timeout, and it thought Serviio stopped responding. It could theoretically be solved by sending blank video immediately, but I think that would require a change in Serviio, and not just a profiles.xml edit.

Maybe I am stupid, but I do not know if I run any video stream with VLC. How it works, give an example.
Second, that where I am writing this code, I do not understand anything.
I just wonder whether anyone for video streaming (with examples from this forum RSS feed and live stream) on LG BD670, to me it does not work.

i have the same unit and it won't do online streaming i tried a few of the lg fixes around but none have worked. apparently the lg units won't allow transcoding.

LG BLU RAY IS BIG SHIT!!!

Actually, I amend my prior post, I have found that Hulu videos are working on the LG. I can see something in the temp transcoding file also. So there is some transcoding it will do. So perhaps there may be some profile adjustment that might work. I don't understand the transcoding profiles well enough to analyze the log and come up with the right changes/additions to the profile.

Put the <OnlineTranscoding> text from my earlier post into the profile you use in profiles.xml. In Windows, you should be able to find it at C:\Program Files\Serviio\config\profiles.xml. If the profile doesn't already contain an <OnlineTranscoding> section, it's easy: just put the text before </Profile> (which ends the profile).

i did that originally, nothing different, i get hulu streams, but nothing else. thanks for the effort.

[zip]

i have the same unit and it won't do online streaming i tried a few of the lg fixes around but none have worked. apparently the lg units won't allow transcoding.

It seems that some models allow transcoding (ie call serviio properly), some don't - not sure which models fall into which category.