Panny 55ST30 - XviD transcoding not working

Hello,

Newbie here. I am not having any luck getting any of the XviD files to transcode and play on the panny 55ST30. I am able to play MKV, MP4 successfully. Below is my profile, mediainfo and ffmpeg output. Any help would be appreciated.

  Code:

   
<Profile id="12" name="Panasonic Viera" extendsProfileId="1">
      <ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>org.serviio.upnp.service.contentdirectory.PacketVideoDLNAMessageBuilder</ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>
      <SubtitlesMimeType>text/srt</SubtitlesMimeType>
      <MediaFormatProfiles>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVI</MediaFormatProfile>
      </MediaFormatProfiles>
      <Transcoding>
          <!-- remux DTS/FLAC/LPCM in MKV/MP4 to AC3 -->
           <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3">
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" aCodec="dca" />
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" aCodec="flac" />
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" aCodec="vorbis" />
            <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" aCodec="lpcm"/>
            <Matches container="3gp" vCodec="h264" /> 
         </Video>
         <!-- Remux all h264 video to MPEG-TS stream -->
            <Video targetContainer="mpegts">
            <Matches container="avi" vCodec="h264" />
            <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" />
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" />
            </Video>
            <!-- unsupported codecs will be transcoded into mpeg-ts, mpeg2 video and ac3 audio -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3">
            <Matches container="avi" vCodec="mjpeg" />
            <Matches container="avi" vCodec="dvvideo" />
            <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="mjpeg" />
            <Matches container="asf" />
            <Matches container="flv" />
            <Matches container="ogg" />
            <Matches container="3gp" /> 
         </Video>
            <Audio targetContainer="mp3"> 
            <Matches container="mp4" />
            <Matches container="flac" />
            <Matches container="ogg" />
            <Matches container="asf" />
         </Audio>
      </Transcoding>
   </Profile>


  Code:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg -i "C:\test.avi"
ffmpeg version N-31480-g8bc3a48, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Jul 14 2011 23:37:53 with gcc 4.4.2
  configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffs
erver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --extra-libs='
-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enab
le-pthreads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --pkg-config=pkg-co
nfig
  libavutil    51. 11. 0 / 51. 11. 0
  libavcodec   53.  8. 0 / 53.  8. 0
  libavformat  53.  6. 0 / 53.  6. 0
  libavdevice  53.  2. 0 / 53.  2. 0
  libavfilter   2. 25. 0 /  2. 25. 0
  libswscale    2.  0. 0 /  2.  0. 0
Input #0, avi, from 'C:\test.avi':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : AVI-Mux GUI 1.17.7, Aug  8 2006  20:59:17
    JUNK            :
  Duration: 02:17:44.95, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 705 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 672x288 [PAR 1:1 DAR 7:3], 23.98 tbr, 23
.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc
    Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s
    Metadata:
      title           : VTS_01_1 T81 3_2ch 384Kbps DELAY 0ms
At least one output file must be specified


  Code:

General
Complete name                    : C:\test.avi
Format                           : AVI
Format/Info                      : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile                   : OpenDML
Format settings                  : rec
File size                        : 695 MiB
Duration                         : 2h 17mn
Overall bit rate                 : 706 Kbps
Writing application              : AVI-Mux GUI 1.17.7, Aug  8 2006  20:59:17

Video
ID                               : 0
Format                           : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                   : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP            : 1
Format settings, QPel            : No
Format settings, GMC             : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix          : Default (H.263)
Codec ID                         : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                    : XviD
Duration                         : 2h 17mn
Bit rate                         : 574 Kbps
Width                            : 672 pixels
Height                           : 288 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 2.35:1
Frame rate                       : 23.976 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.124
Stream size                      : 566 MiB (81%)
Writing library                  : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID                               : 1
Format                           : MPEG Audio
Format version                   : Version 1
Format profile                   : Layer 3
Mode                             : Joint stereo
Mode extension                   : MS Stereo
Codec ID                         : 55
Codec ID/Hint                    : MP3
Duration                         : 2h 17mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 128 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 126 MiB (18%)
Alignment                        : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration             : 945 ms (22.67 video frames)
Interleave, preload duration     : 216 ms
Title                            : VTS_01_1 T81 3_2ch 384Kbps DELAY 0ms
Writing library                  : LAME3.98r
Encoding settings                : -m j -V 4 -q 2 -lowpass 17 -b 128


[zip]

You can try to trancode all AVIs then. Replace this

  Code:

 <Matches container="avi" vCodec="mjpeg" />
 <Matches container="avi" vCodec="dvvideo" />


with

  Code:

 <Matches container="avi"/>


Thanks for the tip. I tried that but still no change.

[Cerberus]

rename this file .mpg and refresh library it may then start to work.

Tried renaming the filename to .mpg but still getting cannot read file.

[zip]

rename this file .mpg and refresh library it may then start to work.

This will make no difference whatsoever. FFmpeg doesn't care about extensions, it identifies files based on their content.

Finally got it working. I changed the profile to DirecTV HD-DVR and all files seem to work now. Thanks.

Hi Zip, I recently got an ST30 as well, 50".

First off, want to say that I've been looking through several DLNA servers and Serviio is by far the best so far!

Using the Panasonic Viera profile, AVI's do not play. I cycled through all the profiles and when using the "DirectTV HD-DVR", "MANTA WIFI Centre", and a few other profiles, AVI files would play, except they don't show up in the native widescreen format. Instead, all videos (AVI and non-AVI) display as a square, with black bars on either side.

Any thoughts on this or recommend any other profile I might be able to use? I'm willing to be a guinea pig! =)

[Illico]

According to the GetProtocolInfo result of Panasonic ST30 devices, avi is not supported. Two solutions:
- Modified/Add Panasonic according to the device model
- Either the user selects a profile that transcode AVI files (DirectTV)

[Cerberus]

havent got to this will do one for the two types of pana viera soon once bdp profile is done

Thank you Cerberus! Can't wait!

Hi Zip, I recently got an ST30 as well, 50".

First off, want to say that I've been looking through several DLNA servers and Serviio is by far the best so far!

Using the Panasonic Viera profile, AVI's do not play. I cycled through all the profiles and when using the "DirectTV HD-DVR", "MANTA WIFI Centre", and a few other profiles, AVI files would play, except they don't show up in the native widescreen format. Instead, all videos (AVI and non-AVI) display as a square, with black bars on either side.

Any thoughts on this or recommend any other profile I might be able to use? I'm willing to be a guinea pig! =)

I've created a profile for the ST30: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5091

As for the aspect ratio, you simply have to press the "TV format" or "Aspect" button on your remote to go to "Aspect 2" to fill the screen. I don't know what the permanent solution for automatically getting the correct aspect ratio from Serviio's end/

[Cerberus]

huyz please dont spam your topic in multiple threads as i have stated before perkl scripts are not a solution and are just useful for tesdting and average/basic user should not attempt them.

huyz please dont spam your topic in multiple threads as i have stated before perkl scripts are not a solution and are just useful for tesdting and average/basic user should not attempt them.

I thought I was being helpful by answering an open question on threads that don't have a resolution. If I were running a forum, I would want all open questions to be answered even if the questions are duplicated. Certainly, that's how tickets/bug databases work. But if you think it's preferable that threads with open questions are left dangling even though there is answer somewhere else, and you think that this wouldn't be confusing to users who google for a solution, then I don't know what to tell you. What do you think I personally get out of what you call "spamming"? Money? Glory?

My thread does not only contain Perl script but a working profile. But I get the sense that this forum is somewhat hostile for some reason.
So you won't see me post again.

Cheers mate

[Cerberus]

nothing hostile about my response, it was a warning to other users trying to attempt your solution and getting into issues that we can not support.

I have taken your profile made a couple of changes (AVI support and LPCM rather than MP3 for better quality) and put in a new thread for you so that teh confusing bit is no longer present and we can get users feedback. ( viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5119 )