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Serviio Wizards!!!

You guys have created an awesome piece of sw, thank you for that!

My setup is like this: I record DVB-T tv with a Windows 7 Media Center and store the files on a Linux (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) server where I have my Serviio running. The TV Samsung UE32D6207 plays some files while others fail. When failing this is what ends up in the logs:

2012-07-14 22:52:43,129 WARN [ProcessExecutor] Process ffmpeg has a return code of 1! This is a possible error.
2012-07-14 22:52:43,582 ERROR [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Error while processing resource, sending back 500 error. Message: FFmpeg execution failed
java.io.IOException: FFmpeg execution failed
at org.serviio.delivery.resource.transcode.FileBasedTranscodingDeliveryStrategy.createInputStream(FileBasedTranscodingDeliveryStrategy.java:47)
at org.serviio.delivery.resource.transcode.AbstractTranscodingDeliveryEngine.retrieveTranscodedResource(AbstractTranscodingDeliveryEngine.java:129)
at org.serviio.delivery.resource.AbstractDeliveryEngine.deliver(AbstractDeliveryEngine.java:96)
at org.serviio.delivery.MediaResourceRetrievalStrategy.retrieveResource(MediaResourceRetrievalStrategy.java:121)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ResourceTransportRequestHandler.handleRequest(ResourceTransportRequestHandler.java:116)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.AbstractRequestHandler.handle(AbstractRequestHandler.java:54)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.doService(HttpService.java:293)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.ServiioHttpService.doService(ServiioHttpService.java:58)
at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpService.handleRequest(HttpService.java:212)
at org.serviio.upnp.webserver.WebServer$WorkerThread.run(WebServer.java:187)

Please find attached a text file with "media-info" on my test samples with both working and non-working examples:
(The above error was thrown by playing the file:
L:\\Bamses Lillebitte Billedbog_DR Ramasjang_2012_02_12_17_38_00.wtv
But this file worked fine:
L:\\Den travle by_DR1_2012_06_08_07_33_00.wtv)

I recognize that some of the params in the media-info are different from the files that work to the files that fail, but I have no idea how to configure my way out of it.

ANY ideas would be highly appreciated.

/David

PS: Please excuse me if this has already been answered before, I have spent some time browsing the forums without finding the clue.

THere is some improvement on wtv files playback in 1.0, try it when it's out (couple of weeks max)

Thank you Zip

I got a little further, found the call to ffmpeg in the log. When run from a shell, it fails

Current (fails):
ffmpeg -i "/media/store/video/mp4/test/Bamses Lillebitte Billedbog_DR Ramasjang_2012_02_12_17_38_00.wtv" -y -async 1 -vcodec copy -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -fflags +genpts -acodec copy -map 0:2 -map 0:1 -sn -f mpegts /tmp/Serviio/transcoding-temp-240-MPEG2TS.stf
Output attached.
Since it states that "copy" is not an option I tried to insert other options, mpeg4 and libx264, these work

Working (command line issued in the shell):
ffmpeg -i "/media/store/video/mp4/test/Bamses Lillebitte Billedbog_DR Ramasjang_2012_02_12_17_38_00.wtv" -y -async 1 -vcodec mpeg4 -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -fflags +genpts -acodec copy -map 0:2 -map 0:1 -sn -f mpegts /tmp/Serviio/transcoding-temp-240-MPEG2TS.stf
ffmpeg -i "/media/store/video/mp4/test/Bamses Lillebitte Billedbog_DR Ramasjang_2012_02_12_17_38_00.wtv" -y -async 1 -vcodec libx264 -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -fflags +genpts -acodec copy -map 0:2 -map 0:1 -sn -f mpegts /tmp/Serviio/transcoding-temp-240-MPEG2TS.stf

How can I tell serviio to use these options? (edit the profile?) OR Is this a bad way to solve my problem ?

Thanks for any help

/David

you can't change the parameters Serviio sends to FFmpeg. Wait for 1.0, hopefully it'll solve your problem.

Thanks for your answer, I cannot wait for 1.0.

If you need some beta testing assistance I would gladly participate, especially around .wtv stuff.

In the mean time I made a minor hack to my ffmpeg (I had the source from git already) that would manipulate the command line arguments to fit my needs. Now I only have one problem left, but that does not belong in this thread.

/david

HMMMRPFF

The upgrade to 1.0 and then 1.0.1 didn't do the trick for me.
I think in order to compare my result with everybody else's, I need to know which version of ffmpeg you recommend for serviio to perform best.
My ffmpeg is one I got from git about a month back:

ffmpeg version git-2012-07-06-60270eb
built on Jul 18 2012 10:44:22 with gcc 4.6.3
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab
libavutil 51. 64.100 / 51. 64.100
libavcodec 54. 33.100 / 54. 33.100
libavformat 54. 15.100 / 54. 15.100
libavdevice 54. 1.100 / 54. 1.100
libavfilter 3. 0.101 / 3. 0.101
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 15.100 / 0. 15.100
libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100

Anybody who can tell me what ffmpeg you are happy with and if possible where to get it (linux ubuntu compatible)

/David

You can download the sources on serviio.org