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WMV on the Sony BDP s370

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BillyBud

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Post Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:33 am

WMV on the Sony BDP s370

Hi,

I have tried the numerous profiles helpfully posted in viewtopic.php?f=5&t=326 and got to the point where I can stream most of the video files I have.

But the one that I can't get to work are .wmv. The wmvs I have play absolutely fine from a usb stick plugged into the player but they just don't show in the folder under the serviio server.

I can't work it out. Any idea would be greatly receieved !

Thanks.
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Brammers

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Post Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:03 pm

Re: WMV on the Sony BDP s370

Try the profile in this post:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=326&start=80#p2972

If that doesn't work, I'll post mine which does stream WMVs. Not all play natively though, unless you enable transcoding.

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zip

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Post Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:10 am

Re: WMV on the Sony BDP s370

Can you provide protocol info for the player (viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19).
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Brammers

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Post Wed Sep 01, 2010 7:13 pm

Re: WMV on the Sony BDP s370

The Sony player doesn't expose that information (see attached screen shot).

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Lowlander

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Post Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:46 pm

Re: WMV on the Sony BDP s370

Hey,

Brammers wrote:Try the profile in this post:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=326&start=80#p2972
If that doesn't work, I'll post mine which does stream WMVs. Not all play natively though, unless you enable transcoding.


the profile in the linked post doesn't do much to wmv (asf containers). It mainly transcodes all h264 stuff to mpeg2, which is not necessary IMHO, as the Sony plays h264 just fine. I'd very much like to have a peek at your profile, though.

Have a nice one,
Low
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Illico

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Post Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:52 pm

Re: WMV on the Sony BDP s370

Add asf container to your transcoding profile
  Code:
<Transcoding>
    <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3">
        <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" />
        <Matches container="mpegts" vCodec="h264" />
        <Matches container="avi" vCodec="h264" />
        <Matches container="asf" />
    </Video>
</Transcoding>
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Lowlander

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Post Wed Sep 08, 2010 1:49 pm

Re: WMV on the Sony BDP s370

I hoped that there were codecs within the asf container that could be played natively without transcoding. I further hoped we could care for those individually. I think I'll have to look for examples of profiles that kind of do that.
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zip

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Post Wed Sep 08, 2010 2:05 pm

Re: WMV on the Sony BDP s370

asf generally only includes wmv (video) and wma (audio) codecs
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Lowlander

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Post Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:26 am

Re: WMV on the Sony BDP s370

Hi zip,

[quote="zip"]asf generally only includes wmv (video) and wma (audio) codecs[/quote]

yes it does, and most of the asf files play fine on the Sony, but asf containers including streams like that:

Stream #0.0(eng): Audio: wmapro, 48000 Hz, 5.1, flt, 384 kb/s
Stream #0.1(eng): Video: wmv3, yuv420p, 1440x1080, 8000 kb/s, PAR 4:3 DAR 1

and are listed in the library as:

video/divx:DLNA.ORG_PN=WMVHIGH_PRO;

throw an "Audioformat not supported" error on the Sony, and picturewise just one still frame is displayed -- or the video comes to a grinding halt after a few frames. We could transcode ALL asf containers as a workaround, as it was suggested in the forum before, but is there any filter condition we could define to transcode files which meet the above specs and leave the basic SD WM-stuff untranscoded? As this file plays fluently (but silently) from a flash drive it may be just the high resolution that makes the video fail over DLNA, but we cannot define transcoding conditions based on codec AND resolution, can we?
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zip

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Post Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:00 am

Re: WMV on the Sony BDP s370

No, we cannot. Create a bitbucket ticket to enable triggering transcoding on wma_pro and wmv3
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Lowlander

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Post Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:14 am

Re: WMV on the Sony BDP s370

Issue #178 created.

Have a nice one,
Low

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