OK, welcome to bizarro land
I have two machines running Serviio, one for my goofing around. Both machines have the same version of Serviio, although the test server has less power.
On the test server, I have many videos that are for some reason not being shown as playable on the Panasonic. The Sony and Roku will play them all. The main server has no such issues: all videos are playable. While the don't have identical libraries, almost everything on the test server was copied from the main one. Both servers are now using the identical Profiles.xml file (attached). To my knowledge, this particular file is stock Serviio. I don't think I've done anything to it.
Now the really strange part. On the test server, I have three different versions of a Star Wars rip: MPG, MP4 and MKV. The MPG is a DVD rip, while the other two are BD. The test server tries to play them all natively. The MPG plays fine, as expected. The BD rips play in stop-motion, as the TV can't handle the bitrate, again as expected.
On the main server, I have all 6 movies ripped, all BD in MKV. These will play, but they are being transcoded and have the aspect ratio issue I mentioned before. My wife is watching that server right now, so I can't play with the profile.
But: why the difference between the two servers with the same video (BD rip in MKV)? Either both should be native or both should be transcoded. Since the TV can't handle the bitrate of the BD rip, should I add a line to the profile to capture AVC 4.1High video? And exactly how should the line be to not have the aspect ratio issue?
Thanks!
Dan
LG NANO85 4K TV, Samsung JU7100 4K TV, Sony BDP-S3500, Sharp 4K Roku TV, Insignia Roku TV, Roku Ultra, Premiere and Stick, Nvidia Shield, Yamaha RX-V583 AVR.
Primary server: Intel i5-6400, 16 gig ram, Windows 10 Pro, 22 TB hard drive space | Test server Windows 10 Pro, AMD Phenom II X4 965, 8 gig ram
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