Re: Panasonic TX-55GZ950
I did have many more questions but, after wasting many hours trying to understand how Serviio works, believe it is too frustrating trying to resolve this issue myself any more!
I do not understand why the developers of Serviio are unwilling to provide sufficient information to allow users get profiles working themselves.
If they don't want any more involvement then they should provide more information to make it self sufficient.
Even those providing expert feedback don't know what things are doing in the profiles, so what chance do I have?
If you think someone can learn the language to program anything, C# for instance, by just playing with it without any help or instructions whatsoever, then you are clearly in cloud cuckoo land!
Writing a detailed description would not take more than a couple of days. Time well spent when it means a reduction in support hours.
I do not understand why the profiles.xml file should only work sometimes. As previously reported, the Roku4kTV would display all video, but now it does not play any video at all without having to do another full install.
Something else must be working with the profile.xml file to create different results from the same files.
I do not understand why stripping all unused profiles from the profiles.xml file and adding only RokuApp, Roku4kTV and GZ-Series should behave differently (no file playback at all) to a fully populated profiles.xml file.
Clearly, the profile is doing more than just following the sequence of profiles. It must be taking additional information from somewhere.
I do not understand why, with just the 'do not remove' ID1 in the profiles.xml file and GZ-Series user-profile.xml, video is being resized.
There doesn't appear to be anything that provides this instruction to transcode files to full screen.
There must be something in the basic configuration of ID1 or elsewhere, that is changing the video size regardless of whatever play settings are used.
In searching the internet for enlightenment, I came across Ultimate Media Server. So thought I would try it. Download, install and setup took 15 minutes.
This plays all video and sound for my Panasonic TV from the start without having to waste hours trying to decipher and reconfigure the Serviio file system.
Incidentally, the default file (it selects the best one to use for you) is for a Panasonic Viera TV. A much older model that doesn't work at all with my TV using the Serviio profile. So something is wrong there!
This product also appears to be supported by the developers and updated with new equipment and codecs.
It behaves like Serviio, so transition is a breeze.
While I have used and liked Serviio for many years, unfortunately, the time has come to recognise the lack of support now renders it useless for my requirements: someone who purchases modern equipment.
What a pity such a good and trusted piece of software should be rendered defunct due to a lack of developer interest when rivals still provide it. A shame.