Problem with some .avis sending to Sony Blueray BDP-S3100

Hi - I am using Serviio to send data from Windows 8.1 PC to Sony Blueray BDP-S3100 via DLNA, whose profile I selected in Serviio. For some videos it works great, far better than the alternatives I tried.
For others it does not work at all, and gives "The file is corrupt or unsupported" even though both files are .AVIs and both play fine on the PC itself.

Here is the output from ffmpeg on an example file that DOES NOT work.

Input #0, avi, from 'C:\Users\Adam\Desktop\GOT\Game of Thrones Season 01 Episode
02 - The Kingsroad.avi':
Metadata:
title : Game of Thrones Season 1 Episode 02 - The Kingsroad
artist : TSV Productions
encoder : Lavf53.32.100
Duration: 00:55:17.36, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1386 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main) (H264 / 0x34363248), yuv420p, 720x406, 23.98
fps, 23.98 tbr, 23.98 tbn, 47.95 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: ac3 ([0] [0][0] / 0x2000), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 k
b/s


I think from other research that my player may not support H264 (?) but I thought that Serviio might transcode to make the video play, or do I misunderstand what the transcoding does or how to use? Transcoding is ticked in the setup.

I also got a program "gspot" that analyses video files. Here is some output of it for the one that DOES NOT work.

FILE_NAME Game of Thrones Season 01 Episode 02 - The Kingsroad.avi
FILE_SIZE 575065344
CONT_AUDIO_STREAM_COUNT 1
CONT_BASETYPE AVI(.AVI)
CONT_BYTES_MISSING
CONT_INTERLEAVE_ALIGN Aligned
CONT_INTERLEAVE_PRELOAD
CONT_INTERLEAVE_TIME 42
CONT_SUBTYPE AVI v1.0,
CONT_TOTAL_BITRATE 0
VIDEO_BITRATE 1248
VIDEO_CODEC_NAME H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
VIDEO_CODEC_STATUS Codec(s) are Installed
VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE H264
VIDEO_DAR 1.773
VIDEO_DURATION 0.038395012
VIDEO_FIELDS_PER_SEC
VIDEO_FRAME_COUNT 79537
VIDEO_FRAMES_PER_SEC 23.976
VIDEO_MPEG4
VIDEO_MPEG4_BVOP
VIDEO_PAR 1
VIDEO_PICS_PER_SEC 23.976
VIDEO_QF 0.178
VIDEO_SAR 1.773
VIDEO_SIZE_X 720
VIDEO_SIZE_Y 406
AUDIO_BITRATE 128
AUDIO_BITRATE_TYPE CBR
AUDIO_CHANNEL_COUNT 2
AUDIO_CODEC 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3
AUDIO_CODEC_STATUS Codec(s) are Installed
AUDIO_MPEG_STREAM_ID
AUDIO_MPEG_SUBSTREAM_ID
AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE 48000


And here is some sample output from a file that DOES work very well

FILE_NAME Game of Thrones Season 01 Episode 03 - Lord Snow_arc.avi
FILE_SIZE 576505856
CONT_AUDIO_STREAM_COUNT 1
CONT_BASETYPE AVI(.AVI)
CONT_BYTES_MISSING 0
CONT_INTERLEAVE_ALIGN Split
CONT_INTERLEAVE_PRELOAD 512
CONT_INTERLEAVE_TIME 63
CONT_SUBTYPE OpenDML (AVI v2.0),
CONT_TOTAL_BITRATE 0
VIDEO_BITRATE 1207
VIDEO_CODEC_NAME XviD ISO MPEG-4
VIDEO_CODEC_STATUS Codec(s) are Installed
VIDEO_CODEC_TYPE XVID
VIDEO_DAR 1.773
VIDEO_DURATION 0.039746181
VIDEO_FIELDS_PER_SEC
VIDEO_FRAME_COUNT 82336
VIDEO_FRAMES_PER_SEC 23.976
VIDEO_MPEG4 MPEG-4
VIDEO_MPEG4_BVOP B-VOP
VIDEO_PAR 1
VIDEO_PICS_PER_SEC 23.976
VIDEO_QF 0.172
VIDEO_SAR 1.773
VIDEO_SIZE_X 720
VIDEO_SIZE_Y 406
AUDIO_BITRATE 128
AUDIO_BITRATE_TYPE CBR
AUDIO_CHANNEL_COUNT 2
AUDIO_CODEC 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3
AUDIO_CODEC_STATUS Codec(s) are Installed
AUDIO_MPEG_STREAM_ID
AUDIO_MPEG_SUBSTREAM_ID
AUDIO_SAMPLE_RATE 48000

I wonder if someone can help me understand how to configure Serviio to make the first one play?
Or is it the case that Serviio transcoding does not do this and I need a different program to use first on the .avi file?

Thanks a lot, I really like the product for the videos it works on so far, it is far superior to a NAS I have!

[patters]

The files are likely to be the problem. AVI was never technically designed to contain H.264 video. It can do it just about, but I believe it violates some aspects of the specification. From what I have read previously on the subject, basically nobody should be encoding H.264 into AVI containers now that MP4 or MKV exist and are widely supported.