Wed Jul 07, 2010 6:17 pm by tttt
Ok, say I have a video file that is encoded with DivX 5.0.2.
As is, the file can't be played on the TV because of "unsopported video codec".
I can :
1) convert it on my PC to Xvid, share the converted file with Serviio (without activating transcoding), it plays fine on the TV
2) try to use serviio's transcoding feature to automatically transcode it to something my TV understands. When I try this, no matter what target transcoding I try, it results in "unknown file format" on the TV. I've tried for example <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" targetVCodec="mpeg2video"> in forcing C-series default profile, I've tried forcing to PS3 profile, to create my own, whatever : as soon as Serviio transcode it, to whatever option is available on Serviio, it becomes "unknown file format".
Note that my TV doesn't complain about an unsupported video codec or audio codec. It just can't recognize anything if it has been transcoded by Serviio.
As another example, if a .avi has an audio codec my TV doesn't like, it'll still plays the video part of the avi. If I activate transcoding, I get the "unknown file format", and nothing works, neither audio nor video, so it's not that the target codec isn't the good one, it looks like the whole resulting video stream is unrecognizable by the TV.
Is it clearer ?