[SOLVED] No MKVs are working with Samsung UE46D6500?!

HI Everyone,

I'm having trouble playing any MKV video files with serviio on my Samsung ue46d6500. The Tv recognizes serviio and serviio detects the TV as renderer successfully as: Samsung TV / player (c/d series). I also can play the standard avi files - this worked out of the box, I just added my Video Folder and I didn't change any settings.

Since no MKVs are working I've just picked one as example. Please find attached the metadata. I removed the compression with mkvmerge but it didn't work either...

ffmepg -i file.mkv:

  Code:

ffmpeg version 0.7.6, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Oct  3 2011 13:06:32 with gcc 4.6.1 20110819 (prerelease)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libvpx --enable-libtheora --enable-postproc --enable-shared --enable-x11grab --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --disable-debug
  libavutil    50. 43. 0 / 50. 43. 0
  libavcodec   52.122. 0 / 52.122. 0
  libavformat  52.110. 0 / 52.110. 0
  libavdevice  52.  5. 0 / 52.  5. 0
  libavfilter   1. 80. 0 /  1. 80. 0
  libswscale    0. 14. 1 /  0. 14. 1
  libpostproc  51.  2. 0 / 51.  2. 0
[matroska,webm @ 0x819be00] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5002000
[matroska,webm @ 0x819be00] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 47.95 (5000000/104271) -> 23.98 (24000/1001)
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'file.mkv':
  Duration: 01:55:38.47, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1536 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1920x816 [PAR 1:1 DAR 40:17], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
    Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: dca (DTS-HD MA), 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 1536 kb/s (default)
    Stream #0.2(eng): Subtitle: dvdsub (default)
    Stream #0.3(fre): Subtitle: dvdsub
    Stream #0.4(spa): Subtitle: dvdsub
At least one output file must be specified


mkvinfo file.mkv:

  Code:

+ EBML head
|+ EBML version: 1
|+ EBML read version: 1
|+ EBML maximum ID length: 4
|+ EBML maximum size length: 8
|+ Doc type: matroska
|+ Doc type version: 2
|+ Doc type read version: 2
+ Segment, size 12918212310
|+ Seek head (subentries will be skipped)
|+ EbmlVoid (size: 4043)
|+ Segment information
| + Timecode scale: 1000000
| + Muxing application: libebml v1.2.2 + libmatroska v1.3.0
| + Writing application: mkvmerge v5.0.1 ('Es ist Sommer') built on Oct  9 2011 20:30:32
| + Duration: 6938.475s (01:55:38.475)
| + Date: Sun Oct 16 12:51:13 2011 UTC
| + Segment UID: 0x42 0xcf 0x48 0x98 0x3b 0xdd 0x4f 0x05 0x0b 0x6f 0x59 0xb1 0x50 0xcf 0x5c 0x2a
|+ Segment tracks
| + A track
|  + Track number: 1
|  + Track UID: 594565278
|  + Track type: video
|  + Lacing flag: 0
|  + MinCache: 1
|  + Codec ID: V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
|  + CodecPrivate, length 40 (h.264 profile: High @L4.1)
|  + Default duration: 41.708ms (23.976 fps for a video track)
|  + Language: und
|  + Video track
|   + Pixel width: 1920
|   + Pixel height: 816
|   + Display width: 1920
|   + Display height: 816
| + A track
|  + Track number: 2
|  + Track UID: 2632187061
|  + Track type: audio
|  + Codec ID: A_DTS
|  + Default duration: 10.667ms (93.750 fps for a video track)
|  + Audio track
|   + Sampling frequency: 48000
|   + Channels: 6
| + A track
|  + Track number: 3
|  + Track UID: 3379420077
|  + Track type: subtitles
|  + Lacing flag: 0
|  + Codec ID: S_VOBSUB
|  + CodecPrivate, length 348
| + A track
|  + Track number: 4
|  + Track UID: 3841098649
|  + Track type: subtitles
|  + Default flag: 0
|  + Lacing flag: 0
|  + Codec ID: S_VOBSUB
|  + CodecPrivate, length 348
|  + Language: fre
| + A track
|  + Track number: 5
|  + Track UID: 3372616353
|  + Track type: subtitles
|  + Default flag: 0
|  + Lacing flag: 0
|  + Codec ID: S_VOBSUB
|  + CodecPrivate, length 348
|  + Language: spa
|+ EbmlVoid (size: 1180)
|+ Cluster


mediainfo file.mkv:

  Code:

General
Unique ID                                : 88805325566220483364810952124348073770 (0x42CF48983BDD44234230B6F59B150CF5C2A)
Complete name                            : file.mkv
Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 2
File size                                : 12.0 GiB
Duration                                 : 1h 55mn
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 14.9 Mbps
Encoded date                             : UTC 2011-10-16 12:51:13
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v5.0.1 ('Es ist Sommer') built on Oct  9 2011 20:30:32
Writing library                          : libebml v1.2.2 + libmatroska v1.3.0

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 5 frames
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                                 : 1h 55mn
Bit rate                                 : 13.0 Mbps
Nominal bit rate                         : 11.4 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 920 pixels
Height                                   : 816 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 2.35:1
Frame rate                               : 23.976 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.347
Stream size                              : 10.5 GiB (87%)
Writing library                          : x264 core 112 r1867 22bfd31
Encoding settings                        : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-3:-3 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=36 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=11352 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : DTS
Format/Info                              : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile                           : MA / Core
Codec ID                                 : A_DTS
Duration                                 : 1h 55mn
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 1 576 Kbps / 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 24 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossless / Lossy
Language                                 : English

Text #1
ID                                       : 3
Format                                   : VobSub
Codec ID                                 : S_VOBSUB
Codec ID/Info                            : The same subtitle format used on DVDs
Language                                 : English

Text #2
ID                                       : 4
Format                                   : VobSub
Codec ID                                 : S_VOBSUB
Codec ID/Info                            : The same subtitle format used on DVDs
Language                                 : French

Text #3
ID                                       : 5
Format                                   : VobSub
Codec ID                                 : S_VOBSUB
Codec ID/Info                            : The same subtitle format used on DVDs
Language                                 : Spanish


serviio is used under linux as version 0.6.
Samsung Firmeware: 001014

[jhb50]

Nothing obvious to me. What do you mean by "trouble playing"? Whats the error?

jhb50,

thanks for your reply. The error is "Not supported File Format". This appears instantly, in less than a second. So I don't know if he is even transferring data...

Best,
smax

[jhb50]

What profile does the console say the UE is using?

I'm not sure what you mean but if its the profile column in the Status tab it says: Samsung TV / player (c/d series)

[jhb50]

Nothing obvious to me. It should play natively with that profile. Shot in the dark..remux with just the vido and audio..drop the others.

[zip]

The audio track is DTS-MA, I'm not sure if the TV supports that (or just DTS).

Zip & Jhb50,

Thanks for your support! But for some reason, today every mkv worked - i know this sound ridiculous because I havn't changed anything. The only thing that changed was: I resaterted my PC. Maybe the problem was that I've tested too many dlna servers in one session... I don't know... (I didn't run dlna servers parallel.. but I treid them one after the other... so maybe one didn't shoutdown correctly...

Anyway mkvs are working now! Some need to be transcoded and my PC (laptop) is too slow - but thats not an serviio issue... so I'm think about buying an external media player that is able to play *any* video file I provide. Do you guys know such a device that would also work smoothly with serviio?

Btw: serviio was the only dlna server that worked just out of the box for me so keep up the excellent work!

Best,
smax