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I've been using Serviio for a couple of months now and it has really done a great job for me. Recently, I've been trying different formats on my Samsung D-series TV and ran into an issue I'm hoping someone can help me with. According to my TV's manual, it can natively play Divx, Xvid, H.264 (BP/MP/HP), and MPEG4 (SP/ASP) in an ASF container. To test this I took a short FLV file with H264 HP video and AAC audio and remuxed it with FFMPEG to an ASF container with the following command:

Then running ffmpeg.exe -i again on the resulting file to make sure things went correctly, I get:


I also made sure the new file played correctly with VLC player on my computer. Now my Serviio testing began. After modifying my default profile to not transcode FLV files, I can play the original FLV file natively on the TV just fine. But, I cannot play the remuxed ASF file natively. I get an Unsupported Format message on the TV. I have my logging set to DEBUG as per zip's signature, but I cannot seem to find an error or warning about why the file failed to play yet. I have the added Library filtering on to try and cut down on the size of the log messages so I'll try to remove that and see if I get more information.

In the meantime, could this be an issue with the mime-type for ASF files? I'm not really sure how the mime-types work or the format for adding one if I needed to. I have noticed on the Serviio Wiki (http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=devices_format_support) that the D-series TV Sink field includes "http-get:*:video/x-ms-asf:*" yet there is nothing similar to this in the Serviio profile. There are no x-ms-asf types declared in the D-series section and in the generic profile section there is only:

mime-type="video/x-ms-asf">VC1_ASF_AP_L1_WMA
mime-type="video/x-ms-asf">VC1_ASF_AP_L2_WMA
mime-type="video/x-ms-asf">VC1_ASF_AP_L3_WMA

Can I add a type for H264 in an ASF container? And if so, how would I format that entry?
Thanks for any insight into this...

DLNA standard containers I see for AVC/h264 video codec are
- MPEG2-TS_ISO, MPEG2-TS_T, MPEG2-TS (Transport Stream) => for example AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3
- MPEG-2 PS => for example AVC_PS_HD_DTS
- MP4 => for example AVC_MP4_MP_SD_AC3
- 3GP => for exampl AVC_3GPP_BL_QCIF15_AAC

Never see asf container in DLNA for AVC (MPEG4part10)

But that could be some new standard, could you point me to the TV manual documentation ?

The link for the manual to the TV (UN46D6000) is below. See page 219 for the supported video formats.
"http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201103/20110324091218633/[ENG_US]GSATSCA-1017.pdf"

The original file was a FLV container and it plays natively on the TV with Serviio, but it wasn't in the list you mentioned (or in the TV manual either). I do see a FLV entry in the generic <MediaFormatProfiles> section:


Once I get home, maybe I can try the following entry:

Could not find any <MediaFormatProfile> tags that would allow the .asf file with H264 video to be presented to the TV correctly through Serviio. I kept getting the Not Supported Format on the TV. I did try playing the file from a USB stick in the TV and that worked well. I guess the supported format list in the TV manual doesn't specify what will work through USB and what will work through DLNA. Going a step further, I tried to play the file through the AllShare program and that failed as well.

Interestingly, I tried to play the original test.flv file through AllShare and it failed too. This same file plays without transcoding through Serviio.

Do you try this ?
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/x-ms-asf" name="">VC1_ASF_AP_L1_WMA</MediaFormatProfile>
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/x-ms-asf" name="">VC1_ASF_AP_L2_WMA</MediaFormatProfile>
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/x-ms-asf" name="">VC1_ASF_AP_L3_WMA</MediaFormatProfile>

"video/x-ms-asf VC1_ASF_*" will be change to "video/x-ms-asf"

I tried your suggestion but to no avail. I don't have the log with me at work, but it basically says it can't identify the proper format for the remuxed ASF file produced by ffmpeg. There may not be a Format Profile that accounts for H264 in an ASF container.