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Cannot play any video on xxPFL5907

PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 1:51 am
by koeiseun
Attempted using Philips 2009 and 2010 profile but cannot play any AVI, MP4 or MKV files.
From the manual of the TV it only supports
Playable codec : MPEG2, Maximum size of a video : 1920 x 1080, Audio type : AC3, MPEG1 audio layer 3 (MP3), MPEG1 audio layer 2, LPCM over DLNA

The output from device spy gave one line:
http-get:*:video/mpeg:DLNA.ORG_FLAGS=8C100000000000000000000000000000

Attached is the debug log when attempting to play a MP4 and also AVI file. The AVI codec results from gspot is Video: XviD ISO MPEG-4 and Audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3

Does anyone have the basic framework for a profile I can use. If it only plays the AVI I am OK for now, the rest I should be able to add over time.

Thanks
ks

Re: Cannot play any video on xxPFL5907

PostPosted: Mon Aug 12, 2013 7:26 pm
by zip
Try with DirecTV profile.

Re: Cannot play any video on xxPFL5907

PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:19 am
by koeiseun
Tried DirecTV and still it does not play anything. Not even a MPEG-2 test file I have in the folder.
As I was about to pack up the TV to return it, I tried a competing media server and it played everything I could throw at it.
My preference is to stay with Serviio. I have 5 days left before my Pro trial expires and I was hoping to get this Philips TV working as smoothly as my other devices.

Any other help/info you can provide. What can I log/trap on my side?

Thanks
ks

Re: Cannot play any video on xxPFL5907

PostPosted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 7:48 pm
by zip
Your log doesn't show playing the file.

Can you capture it again, with a single profile (Philips 2009), and play a mpeg and avi.

Re: Cannot play any video on xxPFL5907

PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 1:10 am
by koeiseun
Here is a new log as requested. I attempted multiple plays of the mpeg and AVI file I have in the folder.
I checked the log and it does not look like there is anything specific to playing the files.

Re: Cannot play any video on xxPFL5907

PostPosted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 2:18 am
by koeiseun
SUCCESS:

I finally found something that will work. The following profile will play MPEG-2, AVI, MKV and MP4 files on my Philips 42PFL5907.
I found the WD Live TV profile will at least play MPEG files and that was 1000% more that I had before. This is a stripped down WD Live TV with a few items added.

<Profile id="23" name="Philips xxPFL5907" extendsProfileId="1">
<Detection>
<UPnPSearch>
<ModelName>.*PHILIPS.*</ModelName>
</UPnPSearch>
</Detection>
<ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>org.serviio.upnp.service.contentdirectory.PacketVideoDLNAMessageBuilder</ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>
<ProtocolInfo>simple</ProtocolInfo>
<Transcoding>
<Video targetContainer="mpeg" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384">
<Matches container="avi" />
<Matches container="matroska" />
<Matches container="mp4" />
</Video>
</Transcoding>
</Profile>

The only issue I now need to resolve is Pause, F-FWD and Rewind.

Re: Cannot play any video on xxPFL5907

PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2015 5:30 am
by datherton15
Thanks for posting this. Worked like a charm for Philips model 39PFL2908 as well!
For reference, incase there are enhanced versions, here was the log I was going to upload in case I didn't find a resolution.