Samsung C/D/E profile vs. Samsung BD-ES6000 (MKV playback)

Hi everyone,
Serviio is a great piece of software (kudos to the creator), but I noticed that the "Samsung C/D/E" does not fit the BD-ES6000 player in case of all MKV file I've got. I don't know if the “ES” in the model name means it is inferior to other E-series Bluray players, but in case of MKV files with h264-AVC and AC3 the file seems to be sent without transcoding/remuxing and the player claims that “format is not supported”. At the same time when I change the profile to “Sharp Aquos” (where MKV container seems to be remuxed to mpeg2ts) the same MKV files play with not issue. This would confirm it is an issue with the MKV container.

Anybody had any success with playing native MKV on this device? Or are there any problematic switches in MKV setup I should look for?
Thanks in advance for your input!

[jhb50]

You should post the "MediaInfo" results for one of those files. Page 10 of your manual says they should play natively. ( Dolby Digital, DD+)

You should post the "MediaInfo" results for one of those files. Page 10 of your manual says they should play natively. ( Dolby Digital, DD+)

I will post this evening, I was also following the manual when buying, but I saw people in other forums complaining that this model does not play MKV, only remuxed to mpeg2ts.

[jhb50]

Also try playing the files directly from a usb device.

OK:
1. Below 2 ffmpeg MKV outputs:
File 1 (MKV h264 AC3):

  Code:

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg.exe -i "g:\DW2005 720p.mkv"
ffmpeg version 1.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Feb  5 2013 21:59:54 with gcc 4.7.2 (GCC)
  configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffs
erver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libass --enable-librtm
p --enable-fontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-zlib --extra-libs='-lrtmp -l
polarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm -lexpat -lfreetype -lfribidi -lz' --arch=x86 --enable-
runtime-cpudetect --enable-pthreads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-
mingw32- --pkg-config=pkg-config
  libavutil      52. 13.100 / 52. 13.100
  libavcodec     54. 86.100 / 54. 86.100
  libavformat    54. 59.106 / 54. 59.106
  libavdevice    54.  3.102 / 54.  3.102
  libavfilter     3. 32.100 /  3. 32.100
  libswscale      2.  1.103 /  2.  1.103
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'g:\DW2005 720p.mkv':
  Metadata:
    creation_time   : 2010-04-24 18:33:35
  Duration: 00:41:37.38, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 3757 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x720, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 25 fps
, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc (default)
    Stream #0:1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 384 kb/s (default)
At least one output file must be specified

file 2 (MKV h264 AAC):

  Code:

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg.exe -i "g:\G2009 720p.mkv"
ffmpeg version 1.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Feb  5 2013 21:59:54 with gcc 4.7.2 (GCC)
  configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffs
erver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libass --enable-librtm
p --enable-fontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-zlib --extra-libs='-lrtmp -l
polarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm -lexpat -lfreetype -lfribidi -lz' --arch=x86 --enable-
runtime-cpudetect --enable-pthreads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-
mingw32- --pkg-config=pkg-config
  libavutil      52. 13.100 / 52. 13.100
  libavcodec     54. 86.100 / 54. 86.100
  libavformat    54. 59.106 / 54. 59.106
  libavdevice    54.  3.102 / 54.  3.102
  libavfilter     3. 32.100 /  3. 32.100
  libswscale      2.  1.103 /  2.  1.103
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'g:\G2009 720p.mkv':
  Metadata:
    title           : Gamer (2009) 720p BRRip x264 [Dual-Audio] [Eng-Hindi] By M
afiaking TeamTNT Exclusive
    creation_time   : 2012-03-21 17:18:33
  Duration: 01:34:50.70, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1061 kb/s
    Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x688 [SAR 1:1 DAR 80:43],
 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
    Metadata:
      title           : Mafiaking
    Stream #0:1(hin): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp (default)
    Metadata:
      title           : Mafiaking
    Stream #0:2(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, 5.1, fltp
    Metadata:
      title           : Mafiaking
At least one output file must be specified

File 3 (AVI xvid mp3):

  Code:

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg.exe -i "g:\DW2005 368.avi"
ffmpeg version 1.1.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Feb  5 2013 21:59:54 with gcc 4.7.2 (GCC)
  configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-memal
ign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libass --enable-librtmp --enable-fontconfig --enable-libfreety
pe --enable-zlib --extra-libs='-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm -lexpat -lfreetype -lfribidi -lz'
--arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-pthreads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-
mingw32- --pkg-config=pkg-config
  libavutil      52. 13.100 / 52. 13.100
  libavcodec     54. 86.100 / 54. 86.100
  libavformat    54. 59.106 / 54. 59.106
  libavdevice    54.  3.102 / 54.  3.102
  libavfilter     3. 32.100 /  3. 32.100
  libswscale      2.  1.103 /  2.  1.103
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
[mpeg4 @ 01A6DF00] Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected
Input #0, avi, from 'g:\DW2005 368.avi':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
  Duration: 00:47:12.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1035 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (XVID / 0x44495658), yuv420p, 640x368 [SAR 1
:1 DAR 40:23], 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16p, 96 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified

2. At first one of these 3 files played on the device if set to the "Samsung C/D/E" profile, but played fine with the "Sharp Aquos" transcoding profile. Now when I switched back to the Samsung profile all of them play fine O_O. they also play fine from USB. I don't understand what happened. The only change I did apart from changing the profile was to disable online metadata fetching.

Sorry if this was a false alarm.
EDIT: One thing that still bugs me is that for the same files the player reports unsupported format when I try to play them from a Logitech Media Server (LMS) from the same machine. I know this is probably a question to LOgitech, but AFAIK LMS does not transcode, so the files should play. Nevermind.