Thanks for your soon reply, Petr.
As stated by klkr1 above, integrated media player in Samsung B-Series do not recognize other Pixel Aspect Ratio than 1:1.
For HD recorded media this flaw has no implications. But for Standard Definition recodings and DVD VOB-files intended for 16x9, this is fatal.
When playing such media files (either via DLNA / Serviio or via USB plug in TV) video gets horizontally shrinked to 4:3.
This issue has been tracked at Samsung/Cnet in several threads e.g.
http://forums.cnet.com/7723-13973_102-348673.htmlSamsung has never fixed this problem, but there are working firmware patches available from Samygo project
http://www.samygo.tv/. There are are some risks involved applying them on CI+ capable TV sets, though.
It would be really handy if Serviio could take care of this defect instead!
Here are ffmpeg -i for some VOB:s not rendered correctly by B-series
Example 1:
Input #0, mpeg, from 'E:\Filmer\Film 1\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB':
Duration: 00:15:33.18, start: 0.160000, bitrate: 9204 kb/s
Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x576 [PAR 64:45 DAR 16:9], 8875 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
Stream #0.1[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
Example 2:
Input #0, mpeg, from 'E:\Filmer\Film 2\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB':
Duration: 00:07:00.35, start: 0.228544, bitrate: 6838 kb/s
Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x576 [PAR 64:45 DAR 16:9], 9608 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
Stream #0.1[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
Example 3:
Input #0, mpeg, from 'E:\Filmer\Film 3\VTS_01_1.VOB':
Duration: 00:21:00.06, start: 0.287267, bitrate: 6817 kb/s
Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x576 [PAR 64:45 DAR 16:9], 9000 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
Stream #0.1[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
It is possible to make them "B-series understandable" whith the following command:
ffmpeg.exe -i "E:\Film 5\VTS_01_1.VOB" -y -vcodec mpeg2video -vb 9000k -copyts -acodec copy -f mpegts -s 720x405 "C:\Program Files\Serviio\temp.stf"
- or -
ffmpeg.exe -i "E:\Film 5\VTS_01_1.VOB" -y -vcodec mpeg2video -vb 9000k -copyts -acodec copy -f mpegts -s 1024x576 "C:\Program Files\Serviio\temp.stf"
My ffmpeg knowledge is limited, perhaps other important flags are missing. Bitrate 9000k was just something i made up (all inspected DVD:s had a bitrate around 9000). As for the -s switch I dont know what size to fill in. Both of the above seem to work.
Cheers, Peter B