Samsung Blu-ray Player Profile

[Britinva]

This is a profile that works with the Samsung BD-C5500 and HT-C5500

Only issue I have is not being able to use the Samsungs jog back/forward and jump to time feature.

  Code:

<Profile id="7" name="Samsung WiselinkPro - Blu-ray Player" extendsProfileId="2">
     
      <Transcoding>   
         <!-- transcode MKV with DST audio to AC3, remux into mpeg2ts -->
         <!-- transcode H264 MP4 files with LPCM audio -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3">
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" aCodec="dca"/>
            <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" aCodec="pcm_s16le" />
         </Video>
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
            <Matches container="asf" vCodec="wmv2" />
         </Video>

         <!-- transcode MKV with MPEG2 video, remux into mpeg2ts -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="mpeg2video"/>
         </Video>

         <!-- transcode AVI with AVC video -->
    <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
       <Matches container="avi" vCodec="h264" />
    </Video>
      </Transcoding>
</Profile>

I would like to confirm this issue. I'm having the same problem but for the Samsung BD-C6500. I'm also using the Samsung WiselinkPro profile.

I no longer can jump backwards or forward since the version 4 upgrade.

I'm not sure what you mean with jog. I also have the c6500 and if I press the "arrow key" left/right it makes 10sec jumps (in video and music mode)

[Britinva]

For me it seemed to be just some file types..... MKV with AVC/AC3 are OK but MKV with AVC/DTS does not work. Both were fine with PCSM.

However, I think I found the issue. I had used Profile id="2" name="Samsung WiselinkPro" for the base and added my additional transcoding to that. And I just noticed that it had:

  Code:

<!-- transcode MKV with DST audio to AC3, remux into mpeg2ts -->
   <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3">
   <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" aCodec="dca" />


As the Samsung Blu-ray players support MKV with AVC/DTS I removed that part and here is my new profile.

  Code:

<Profile id="7" name="Samsung WiselinkPro - Blu-ray Player" extendsProfileId="2">
     
      <Transcoding>   
         <!-- transcode H264 MP4 files with LPCM audio -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3">
              <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" aCodec="pcm_s16le" />
         </Video>

         <!-- transcode MKV with MPEG2 video, remux into mpeg2ts -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="mpeg2video"/>
         </Video>

         <!-- transcode AVI with AVC video -->
    <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
       <Matches container="avi" vCodec="h264" />
    </Video>

      </Transcoding>
</Profile>

The jog & move to timestamp now works with MKV with AVC/DTS files.

I need now to revisit all my testing but my guess is that anything that gets transcoded the jog & move to timestamp won't work.

Remember after changing your profile you need to stop and restart the Serviio process in Windows Services (or reboot PC) for it to take effect.

[Britinva]

Further Testing of the jog and move to timestamp:

Video
AVI-Xvid-MP3: OK
AVI-AVC-AAC : No (transcoded)
MP4-AVC-AAC: OK
MKV-AVC-DTS: OK
MKV-AVC-AAC: OK
MPG-MPEGv1-MPEGv1: No (transcoded)
MPG-MPEGv2-AC3: OK
MPEG: MPEGv1-MPEGv1: OK
WMV-VC-1-WMA: OK

Audio
MP3-MPEGv1: OK
WMA-WMAv2: OK

Not all theses Videos play fine - just you cannot use the jog (both Audio & Vieo)and move to timestamp (Video only).

So looks like consistent that transcoded file you lose the jog and move to timestamp.

[zip]

Great findings. Are you sure it doesn't work for the transcoded files or it just hasn't transcoded enough content to fast forward to, i.e. does the player even react on the remote click somehow?

[Britinva]

What I'm finding is that the player has trouble knowing the duration of the transcoded file.... within Tools the duration flucturates and not accurate.

If the file is playing for a while and you try to use the jog or jump function the video starts to freeze or becomes stuttery.

However, I don't have many files that need transcoding. Mainly short personal videos that are AVI-AVC-AAC and one music video thats MPG-MPEGv1-MPEGv1.

Be good to know what other folks experiencing.

[zip]

If the file is playing for a while and you try to use the jog or jump function the video starts to freeze or becomes stuttery.

Are you on Windows/Mac or Linux? Might be the ffmpeg version on some Linux boxes is not up-to-date.

[Britinva]

If the file is playing for a while and you try to use the jog or jump function the video starts to freeze or becomes stuttery.

Are you on Windows/Mac or Linux? Might be the ffmpeg version on some Linux boxes is not up-to-date.

Windows Vista Home Premium

I have windows 7 and the movie is playing fine for me, however I cannot FF or Rewind regardless whether it's at the beginning or at the middle of the movie. I'm using mkv. I tried the tip above and haven't been able to get it to work as yet (it crashes).

[Britinva]

I have windows 7 and the movie is playing fine for me, however I cannot FF or Rewind regardless whether it's at the beginning or at the middle of the movie. I'm using mkv. I tried the tip above and haven't been able to get it to work as yet (it crashes).

Just to be sure you know that you cannoy use the normal REW/FF buttons on the remote..... you can only use the left/right directional buttons either side of the enter button to 'jog' forward or back 10s or go into Tools and use the "Playing Time" field to jump to a specific time.

If thats not working what Audio/Video codecs are in the MKV? You can download a tool called MediaInfo to find that out.

Yes, that is exactly what I'm doing, I'm using the left/right directional buttons either side of the enter button. This worked great previous to the version .4 upgrade and the ability to rewind and fast forward was the main reason why I'm using Serviio. Now it doesn't do anything but play and pause now.

[Britinva]

what Audio/Video codecs are in the MKV?

Are you using the original profile I posted or the revised one?

hello

i'm new to this and i just got the samsung HT-C5500 blu ray player.

and i can play mkv files with dts and even ac3 audio.

i just wont play it of my portable hard drive.

the picture is fine but no audio.

im not sure what the other post mean.

i mean how to i transcode my files to make them play.

thanks.

Blue-Ray do not want to play simole old cd )
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[moltra]

hello

i'm new to this and i just got the samsung HT-C5500 blu ray player.

and i can play mkv files with dts and even ac3 audio.

i just wont play it of my portable hard drive.

the picture is fine but no audio.

im not sure what the other post mean.

i mean how to i transcode my files to make them play.

thanks.

See My signature on how to supply information on a file that will not play. and post it here.

OK, apart from the Video functionality, I found someting strange.
I've got a large collection of MP3's (over 50.000) mostly albums so no more then 100 tracks max in one subfolder. However, My HT-C5550 (same as HT-C5500) won't show any audio when I try to browse to it in the dlna menu.
It gives me a warning that may change per profile. I've tried all of the build in profiles in Servio. Strangest thing is, when I select the Panasonic Viera profile, audio playback works fine. When I select one of the samsungs, an unexpected error is shown.

Looking at the profiles xml file, i don't see any change in audio handling. All inherited from the original profile. Hope someone can explain this.

Very good server by the way! I just love it. Nice feature for the next version: a progress bar so you can see how long it will take to scan all media at the first time scan.

[jhb50]

Britinva:

The problem is simply that the Samsung Series D TV and BR players do not support file jumping (left/right,Tools Menu time skip) for any mpeg2 (video/mpeg) files. Apparently Series B and C devices do work with MPEG.

Since the Samsung Profile transcodes unsupported files to that format, no series D transcoded files will jump.

I'm currently trying to work out a solution and will post my results.