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kdl 40hx800 (MKV support)

PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:17 pm
by T9000
I'm new to this forum and serviio. Of course I became interested after I bought the Sony KDL 40HX800 what is a fine television!

Now I have a problem. I can't play .MKV files (the bravia isn't showing it on the file list other file formats are recognized by the bravia eg:avi)
Of course I really want my bravia to show MKV files because I have some 3d movies on my computer and my bravia 3d emitter and glasses cant wait to be used!

I have the latest version of ffmpeg and serviio 0.5 installed.
I stream from a windows 7 64bit OS.

I think the problem has to do with the fact that maybe my profile isn't configured on the right way. I have no experience jet with xml, but I can learn.

I hope you can help me,

Kind Regards,

Re: kdl 40hx800 (MKV support)

PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 3:41 pm
by T9000
extra info: I just runned a MKV.clean too rebuilt de MKV. I dont know if that does anything special (it does play a bit more fluent in VLC player)

I cant test if it gets recognized by the bravia (I'm at my work now :-))

Re: kdl 40hx800 (MKV support)

PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:04 pm
by T9000
Ok. I just edited my profile.xml with editix and inserted the bravia profile that is listed in the bravia 2010 post. (strangely it wasn't inserted in the original profiles.xml that come with version 0.5 of serviio)
  Code:
<Profile id="9" name="Sony Bravia TV" extendsProfileId="1">
      <Detection>
         <UPnPSearch>
            <FriendlyName>BRAVIA.*</FriendlyName>
         </UPnPSearch>
      </Detection>
      <MediaFormatProfiles>
         <!-- rename native mpeg2ts with h264/ac3 ac3 formats to those supported by the tv -->
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts" name="AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3">AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts" name="AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3">AVC_TS_MP_SD_AC3</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts" name="AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3_T">AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3_T</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts" name="AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3_T">AVC_TS_MP_SD_AC3_T</MediaFormatProfile>
         <!-- rename transcoded mpeg2ts with h264 to one of the TV's supported profiles -->
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/mpeg" name="AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3_ISO">AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3_ISO</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/mpeg" name="AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3_ISO">AVC_TS_MP_SD_AC3_ISO</MediaFormatProfile>
      </MediaFormatProfiles>
      <Transcoding>
         <!-- For dvr-ms files force mpeg2video transcoding to fix monotone timestamps problems-->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" forceVTranscoding="true">
            <Matches container="asf" vCodec="mpeg2video" />
         </Video>
         <!--
            First remux all h264 video on MPEG-TS stream with ac3 audio transcoding, expected profile AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3_ISO or
            AVC_TS_MP_SD_AC3_ISO
         -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384">
            <Matches container="avi" vCodec="h264" />
            <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" />
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" />
            <!-- if audio different to ac3, must be transcoded -->
            <Matches container="mpegts" aCodec="aac" />
            <Matches container="mpegts" aCodec="mp3" />
            <Matches container="mpegts" aCodec="dca" />
         </Video>
         <!-- All Others video/audio codec will be transcoded into mpeg2ts, mpeg2video and ac3 audio (MPEG_TS_SD_EU). -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384">
            <Matches container="asf" />
            <Matches container="avi" />
            <Matches container="mp4" />
            <Matches container="matroska" />
            <Matches container="flv" />
         </Video>
      </Transcoding>
      <AutomaticImageRotation>true</AutomaticImageRotation>
   </Profile>

Still at work so no chance to test it (live and work in curacao local time here is +5 hours to Amsterdam/europe time)

Will it work or is there another way around..

Re: kdl 40hx800 (MKV support)

PostPosted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:10 pm
by zip
It is in 0.5. Unless you had some older version lying around. All you need to do it select Bravia profile for your device in the console.

Re: kdl 40hx800 (MKV support)

PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:05 pm
by T9000
Hi Zip,

Well I downloaded de 0.5 version and it automatic recognizes my Bravia television (profile)
It detects all movies but not .mkv

btw: I bought the Bravia in Miami (so american) but I cant imagine thats the reason.

Are there some test I can run to know why .mkv isn't recognized?
our is there a way I can ad something to the bravia profile?

thanks in advance,

Laurens

Re: kdl 40hx800 (MKV support)

PostPosted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:43 pm
by Illico
I bought the Bravia in Miami (so american) but I cant imagine thats the reason.

HOWTO: Provide supported formats of a device