Samsung Youtube HD problem

So i have a samsung UE37D5000 .
I got the youtube plugin and entered some online feed in the gui, something like http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/stan ... /top_rated .
The thing is that everything works fine if the quality is set to medium, but if i set it to High my samsung tv shows a "codec not supported" message.
I did a little search and i saw that there is a modified plugin version that limits the resolution (i thought that this was the problem) but i got the same message.
So i dont know what i can do .
Can someone pls give me some dirrection, or what to check ?

By the way.
Great software.
I cannot believe that this software does the stuff it does for free.

[Cerberus]

leave it as medium the samsung cant cope with the high setting.

[jhb50]

Actuallly the Samsung can handle the high setting (up to 1080P) just fine. Problem is the groovy is accepting formats that Serviio and ffmpeg do not support.
Try this groovy which corrects the problem for me.

The samsung care surely cope with 1080 resolution.

So i used that plugin but still , it does not work, i still get the "codec not supported" message.

[Cerberus]

i wasnt talking about resolution i was talking from the point of view of bitrate.

Well, im not sure about exact numbers, but i can stream wirelessly hd youtube from my acer iconia a500 via beam browser (i think its called tvonky).
And i saw even 1080p movies from another streaming server(i think it was mezzmo).
Like i said, im not sure about the bitrate but it looked ok.

[jhb50]

I stream my desktop to my Samsung at 20,000 kbps without any problem so I don't understand how the claim can be made that the Samsung cannot handle high bitrates. It would be helpful if some supporting information accompanied these types of posts so we can all build an accurate knowledge base, rather than having to correct unsubstantiated assertions.

Since 3000-4000kbps is the typical rate for Youtube 1920x1080 avc videos there should be no problem.

I don't know why this groovy does not work for you since it eliminates all the codecs that Serviio does not support, but without knowing the video you are trying to play I cannot diagnose it for you.

It is possible that you have selected a video for which there is only a low quality h263 version, and the bug reported as https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/issue/429/samsung-d-series-tv-wont-play-transcoded applicable to D series TV's
means you will get the codec error. The fix for me was to add a maxVBitrate=30000 parameter to the transcoding rule as attached to the bug report.

So i have this in my online sources list :
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/user ... ft/uploads

Try to play any video.
They are all 1080p.
I always get "video codec not supported" if i set the video quality to high.

[jhb50]

I have no idea what your problem is.. using your link, with my youtube.groovy and quality set to high on release 6.0.1 and they all play fine at 1920x1072. I even tested the standard groovy and it works fine too.

I can only guess that you are using low quality and encountering the bug I previously mentioned.

well then, could u post ur groovy ?
and i am sure that the quality is set to high.

[jhb50]

well then, could u post ur groovy ?
and i am sure that the quality is set to high.

It was posted above and you said you used it. But regardless the normal groovy works fine too. You have to set the quality in the console and restart Serviio for it to take effect.

Why don't you post your log with debug on.

how do i turn debug on ?
cuz im seeing that serviio.log isnt updated after i try to view something on my tv.
so how do i do this ?

[jhb50]

look thru or search the forum

[zip]

how do i turn debug on ?
cuz im seeing that serviio.log isnt updated after i try to view something on my tv.
so how do i do this ?

Did you notice the big READ BEFORE POSTING !!! topic in this forum?

SORRY
So i turned debug on .
Deleted all the contents of serviio.log and restarted the service.
Then i went to my tv and tryied to play some stuff.
I have the file atached.

[zip]

Ok, that looks fine. All the files are transcoded to mpeg2. You might have to update your profile to limit the bitrate, jhb50 has a profile that does it - see if that helps.

So i searched around and i found this :
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3279&start=60
that lead me to
https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/i ... ranscoding

So i tried to edit my profile , and i added

  Code:

<OnlineTranscoding>
   <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384" maxVBitrate="30000">
      <Matches container="mp4"/>
   </Video>
   <Audio targetContainer="mp3">
      <Matches container="flv"/>
   </Audio>
</OnlineTranscoding>


just before </Profile> for samsung.
But still no luck.
I must be doing something wrong.
What exactly and where should i modify my profile ?

[jhb50]

That should have worked, but the correct fix is the change posted in the bitbucket 432 that you referenced. Its only purpose is to override the transcoding specified in profile #2 which #7 inherited.

Im kinda confused.
I thought that i modified what i was supposed to.
I'm not really what and where should i modify.
Could u please assist me a bit ?

[jhb50]

I'll say it again.. use the fix as posted in 432. Add it in front of /profile like you did before. Works for me. If it doesn't work for you you will have to analyse the log, look at your transcoding .stf result and test it as a file by renaming to .mpg and change your transcoding rules accordingly until the TV plays it.