Serviio

I've used Serviio for years with great results, but recently some films (+265, over 2GB) on my samsung ue55ks8000 have started stuttering. Serviio isn't transcoding these files, so lowering the device profile from "J" to "H" fixes playback by transcoding both +264 and +265 files—even though +264 files play fine without transcoding. Is there a easy way to edit the "J" profile to only transcode +265 files (preferably over 2GB) while keeping everything else unchanged?

Yes, it's not difficult to edit the profiles.xml file. However, with any new update to Serviio your file gets overwritten and your changes are lost. It's better to create a user-profiles.xml file and create a personal profile yourself.

Here's an example of a user-profile I created long ago to test something. Just take the number 2 out of the file name and paste the file into the Serviio/Settings folder. Then you create your own profile within the <Profile> and </Profile> tags. I suggest you copy the H profile into this file, then simply comment out the line that transcodes H.265 video. Your profile must have a unique name and ID (i.e. it can't match any existing profile) and in the extendsProfileId field enter the profile ID of the Samsung H profile. It will then take and process your new profile with everything in the H profile except for the changes you make in your profile.

Once you've completed the edit, you can either reboot the computer, restart the Serviio service (assuming Windows) or on the Serviio console you can simply stop and start the DLNA server and it will load your new profile. You might need to reload the web page for your new profile name to appear.

Now, if Serviio won't restart after you load your new file, you have an XML error somewhere. If you did as I suggested (copy the H profile and rename it, then comment out the H.265 line) there shouldn't be any error. But if there is the Serviio log should tell you the line number with the XML error. If you use Notepad++ for editing the file, it helps you out with color-coding for the XML code. If you don't know XML, to comment a line you enter <!-- at the beginning of the line and --> at the end. Don't forget the end tag of you have an error right there.

Thanks Dan I will give that a try

Thanks Dan, that worked

Sorry what does the following mean :-
profile= “high_10” or “high” or “main”
and levelGreaterThan="4.2"
does the above mean over 4.2Gb in size?

No, H.264 has different "levels" within the codec. 4K media will sometimes reach Level 5.1 (although 4K usually uses H.265), but 1080 usually is no more than 4.2. You should be just fine with those settings.

Thankyou Dan