playback not available

Hi.

I have some problem in understanding the principles of DLNA protocol. I have a Sony S9005B series tv. There are some video formats that are not playable on tv. I get "playback not available". I have tried different configurations with no success. I have also tried to play the video directly on tv by putting it on usb disk and plug it directly into the tv. The video was played and srt subtitles showed up. Now I am confused. At first I thought the "generic profile" would do the job as there is no transcoding and the video would play as it was played directly from usb disk. But no luck. Same error "playback not available" is showing up.

Can anybody explain me what I am missing here? Thanks in advance.

[Illico]

You can not compare DLNA and USB player of your Sony TV, they did not support same video format.
Could you provide information about this video file ? (see signature links)
Do you try with other sony profiles (ie : US ) ?
If its a mkv file, you can try to remux it with this tool: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=12136 (Remux tab, Action remux to the same format)

Hi.

Thanks for your prompted response.

No I have not tried the US profiles. I will try them and let you know about results. But I tried some fixes for Sony 2014 found on this forum.

There are not mkv files in question but avi's. Nevertheless here are the details of ffmpeg command which I suppose is irrelevant to avi files.

ffmpeg version N-54096-ge41bf19 Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jun 18 2013 10:49:28 with gcc 4.7.2 (GCC)
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libass --enable-librtmp --enable-fontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-zlib --enable-libx264 --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- --enable-gpl --pkg-config=pkg-config
libavutil 52. 37.101 / 52. 37.101
libavcodec 55. 16.100 / 55. 16.100
libavformat 55. 9.100 / 55. 9.100
libavdevice 55. 2.100 / 55. 2.100
libavfilter 3. 77.101 / 3. 77.101
libswscale 2. 3.100 / 2. 3.100
libswresample 0. 17.102 / 0. 17.102
libpostproc 52. 3.100 / 52. 3.100
[mpeg4 @ 01F5EB60] Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected
Input #0, avi, from 'F:\Downloads\The.Physician.2013.SLOSubs.BRRip.XviD-DrSi\The.Physician.2013.SLOSubs.BRRip.XviD-DrSi.avi':
Metadata:
encoder : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2542/release)
Duration: 02:35:06.33, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2820 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (XVID / 0x44495658), yuv
420p, 720x304 [SAR 1:1 DAR 45:19], 24 tbr, 24 tbn, 24 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: ac3 ([0] [0][0] / 0x2000), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 448 kb/s
[NULL @ 0336C0E0] Unable to find a suitable output format for '\ffmpeg.exe'
\ffmpeg.exe: Invalid argument

And this is an output form Mediainfo application :

General
Complete name : F:\Downloads\The.Physician.2013.SLOSubs.BRRip.XviD-DrSi\The.Physician.2013.SLOSubs.BRRip.XviD-DrSi.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 3.06 GiB
Duration : 2h 35mn
Overall bit rate : 2 821 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2542/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2542/release

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 1
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 2h 35mn
Bit rate : 2 363 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 304 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 24.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.450
Stream size : 2.56 GiB (84%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 2000
Duration : 2h 35mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 497 MiB (16%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms

Best regards.

[Illico]

With avi, you can also try to remux it in same format with Servio WinHelp Tools.

Illico, thanks for the tips you gave me and your patience. I have managed to make it work. It turned out it was not Serviio but the lack of my knowledge about video streaming.

Thanks again.

Can you please suggest how you fixed it, as I get similar "playback not available" for certain content which I got from viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7963