Serviio

I used Handbrake to get a Fomat that is Compatible with Samsung TV A-Series and then Serviio 0.4.2 to watch on my Samsung TV. my 53 Home Video files plays correctly.

I upgraded Serviio to version 0.5.0 and select Samsung TV A-Series in rendered profile. Only two of the 53 video files play correctly , for the rest I am getting "Not Supported Video Codec " error.

I have then decided to swap the "profiles.xml" file and use Serviio 0.5.0 with that of 0.4.2. THIS DID NOT HELP

If I downgrade Serviio to the 0.4.2 version, the 53 video files work just fine.

PLease advise

Hello,

same problem here but I think I found a nice workaround. Just ask serviio to transcode mp4 and mkv to mpegts WITHOUT requesting any video codec but using ac3 codec for audio. This way serviio keeps the H264 stream as si so transcoding doesn't require a lot of cpu and quality is good. (cpu is close to 0% load during streaming)

Problems :
the A-series don't support aspect ratio for DLNA streams so many video are stretched...
sometimes the ac3 sound is jerky. I think it's a muxing issue with H264

Would like to fix the audio issue because this is the best way I found to play mkv files on this tv.

If you provide a working profile I can include it in 0.5.1

Hi,

as I said this is a workaround and I would prefered to stream mp4 files to tv without any transcoding. The workaround is great to play MKV on the TV.
Do you think it's possible to enable MP4 streaming again ?

I discovered 2 other issues :
-Library autorefresh doesn't seem to work for me. I don't know if the problem is on TV side or serviio side. This was working with PS3MediaServer
-Fast forward or rewind doesn't work. Was working with PMS also.

Let me know what I can do to help ?

Here is my profile :

<Profile id="5" name="Samsung TV (A-series)" extendsProfileId="2">
<Detection>
<HttpHeaders>
<User-Agent>.*SamsungWiselinkPro/1.0.*</User-Agent>
</HttpHeaders>
</Detection>
<MediaFormatProfiles>
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVI</MediaFormatProfile>
</MediaFormatProfiles>
<Transcoding>
<!-- For dvr-ms files force mpeg2video transcoding to fix monotone timestamps problems -->
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" forceVTranscoding="true">
<Matches container="asf" vCodec="mpeg2video" />
</Video>
<!-- First remux all h264 video and ac3 audio on MPEG-TS stream -->
<Video targetContainer="mpegts">
<Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" aCodec="ac3"/>
<Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" aCodec="ac3"/>
</Video>
<!-- if audio different to ac3, must be transcoded as well -->
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384">
<Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264"/>
</Video>
<!-- All Others video/audio codec will be transcoded into mpeg2ts, mpeg2video and ac3 audio -->
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
<Matches container="matroska" />
<Matches container="asf" />
</Video>
</Transcoding>
</Profile>

mkv and mp4 work great. The TV isn't detected automatically. What to do to get a good detection pattern ?

Turn detailed logging on and then remove all renderers and then restart serviio and post teh detailed log then we will be able to get the detection pattern

I updated the profile : now MP4 files are never transcoded except if they contain ac3 audio track. TV is detected automatically.

Is it possible to enable direct streaming of MP4 H264 AC3 ?
I got this messge in log file :


I noticed that fast forward doesn't work with transcoded files. Is it normal ?

post result of ffmpeg -i test.mp4

you get the error because the file doesn't match any DLNA profile (silly, I know), the only HD video in MOV must have AAC audio. You could set up remuxing it into mpegts (which will make a supported combination of container/codecs):

Yes I know that but there are other non DLNA compliant fomats like MKV and AVI and they are working fine. Moreover mp4 h264 with AC3 are widely used.

not that widely (more used with divx) and if then probably usually SD

You can find many (HD) movies encoded using this format. Apple uses it also (it's called M4V).
I was using PS3Media Server until now and PMS was allowing me to stream these files. Anyway if you don't want to extend media support it's your choice.

wow rude much..

I don't think I'm rude. If my sentences seem rude I'm sorry. serviio is much better than PMS else I won't be trying to make it work with my TV.

And the above transcode config doesn't help?

Yes the profile works but I noticed some audio/video sync issues in some cases.
Moreover fast forward / rewind doesn't work with transcoding.
This is the reason I would prefer to stream my mp4 files directly and use remux only to get additional mkv support. You see A series only support MP4 (and AVI) containers for H264. It is also supporting (not officially) MP4 with AC3 so I just kept the existing AC3 track in most of my movies. I suppose I can convert them to AAC but it will take a long time.

mp4 isnt a valid container for streaming.

Would like to know why MP4 isn't good for streaming. MP4 can be optimized for HTTP streaming, there are options for that in encoding tools like handbrake.

so would we all liek to know but sadly it isnt so not alot can be done till it is or by trancoding it liek we do now..