Serviio

As the topic suggests, after upgrading to 0.6* my sony blu ray player shows all files as corrupt, whereas it worked totally fine on 5.4. Just wondering if anyone has suggested work-arounds or alternate working profiles. The sony bd player profile does not work either.

P.S. Don't bother replying with the link to how to provide details on files that don't work. The file is not the issue, the version change is!

When you delete the device from the Serviio console and let it re-detect does it automatically assign the Sony BD profile?

Yep, and I can't change it to anything else because it automagically goes back to Sony BD Player
I'd download the older version and revert to that, but it's not linked anywhere on the site

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2004

This worked....Thanks!

What did you do for that?

Hang on - we need to get to the bottom of this so we can fix if appropriate. You might be the only person who has posted on here with an Australian device. I'm assuming that it would be that same as the European PAL ones, but that may not be correct.
The only things that changed between 0.5.2 and 0.6.0.1 for the BDP profile were:

. The new OnlineTranscoding parameters inherited from profile ID 1 which only apply to online feeds
. The transcoding of all H.264 where the profile level is greater than 4.1
. The bitrate of dts audio remuxed to ac3 is now 320Kbps rather than 192.
. The implementation of a slightly tighter device detection to include the Home Theater systems and to allow device status detection (on/off) for 2011 models like yours.

So no fundamental changes to the way media is advertised to the player (neither mime types nor DLNA resource names).

The only reason I can think that the profile gets overridden and autodetected again would be if it keeps changing IP address. So you're saying that not a single video is shown for you using the stock profile?

Can you elaborate what precisely you fixed, by pasting your amended profile from profiles.xml?

I replaced everything between <Transcoding> and </Transcoding> with the code in the first box of the attached link.
Also replaced the divx with mpeg on the <MediaFormatProfile tag

I should add too, that in 0.5.2 I believe I only used the generic profile and it worked fine, the issues with 0.6.x started because of the automatic assignment to the Sony BD Player profile.

Happy to help you troubleshoot the issues with an Australian device (Now that I got mine working). Just lemme know what you need.



Thought that too... noticed the device appearing twice in the list, but even after removing all devices and rescanning, then changing the profile listed, saving, refreshing and stop starting the service - it would revert back to Sony BD Player.


Side issue - My Sony BD Player runs over WiFi, My LG 47LW6500 runs over wired... yet the LG has horrid artifacting on the MKV's. This is why I was pushing to get my Sony working, because 3D looks horrible with interlaced artifacts! lol

OS: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS

The new profile behaviour was introduced as a part of: https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/i ... persistent
It was supposed to make sure that devices get the right profile when they change IP address. Although it's probably ok in most cases (as the provided profiles should be mostly working) it disables you to use another profile if the profile can be autodetected. This also makes testing other profiles with a device more difficult. I'll look into it.

Well thats a bit silly isn't it

P.S. Hope you like my Avatar pic LOL

I didn't think about it at that time. The idea was that if a device can be autodetected then it should always use that profile. Obviously this does not work if I want users to switch profiles to test certain functionality of their devices ;-/


Definitely

I can confirm the BDP-S480 UK model also fails completely with the stock Sony profile, although it never worked 100% on my BDP-S370 either. (I always had to make changes to the profile to get MKVs working)

As for the 2011 range there are two important points here that merit them having their own profile:

1) The 2011 models officially support MKV streaming. This is good as many MKV files play on my BDP-S480 that failed on my BDP-S370.

2) The 2011 models do NOT have DIVX support, they only have XVID. I would think XVID should decode all none-DRM DIVX encoded files, but perhaps they need to be tagged as XVID instead of DIVX?

That said, I had problems with AVI files randomly not working on my BDP-S370 too so something was never quite 100% with that profile.

The 2010 players support MKV too, it's just that they have problems (see the readme sticky in this forum folder), hence they're remuxed to overcome them.

Can you clarify what 'fails completely' means? No files listed? Or some? As mentioned earlier in the thread, there are no material changes to the profile, so it's surprising,

As for the DivX issue - the players were built to support DivX but it's apparently a bug in the firmware relating to MP3 playback, which these files use as audio. It fails when a certain parameter is not declared in the header, which is quite common. There's a thread on here about it and apparently it has been raised with Sony. It affects all 2011 Bravias and BDPs, and there is no way currently of separating files that will play from those that won't.

I too have a total failure of all mkvs playback with default profiles on 0.6 (albeit using a Sony SMP-N100 client)
The error is "The file is corrupt or unsupported" displayed on the client
0.5.2 worked fine.
Removing all transcoding rules from the profile, so that they are just steamed natively , restores mkv functionality BUT causes the 32K block stutter/crash to resurface ( unsurprisingly as i use wifi)

As my usual linux install is more likely to allow user/config error (in terms of librarys already installed etc etc ) I dropped back to a windows install to test,
and installed 0.6.1, debug logged, looked for errors/clues in the logs and manually tried the transcode calls to ffmpeg , and then repeated this for 0.5.2
( Note that I didn't edit the profiles at all, and obviously selected the "Sony BD" profile for 0.5.2 and the N100 profile for 0.6.1.)

The ffmpeg version supplied with 0.5.2 works just fine

The ffmpeg version supplied with 0.6.1 throws the dreaded "[mpegts @ 01d3a0c0] Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0: -7200 >= -7200" error. Hence, it returns error to serviio, and the play then (obviously) fails due to a transcoding failure.

I know this sounds unlikely, but in my case (for some reason) the ffmpeg in 0.6.1 kills playback of all my ( limited number of ) mkvs.
Probably should point out that they are all home-grown, and created by handbrake with the occasional mkvmerge remux.

Info for one test file that proved the problem is as follows :



Update : a mix and match approach ( serviio 6.0.1 with V.0.5.2's supplied ffmpeg ) works just fine, and my very odd mkv problem is resolved.
Mixing the latest serviio and an older version of ffmpeg will probably break something ( newest streaming functionality maybe ??) but for the functionality that I use it works well ...

Could you use Mkvmerge tool, to remux your mkv test file and try serviio/ffmpeg with the resulting file? (be carefull with header stripping option, must be 'none')

Whilst trying to understand this problem, I had already tried the mkvmerge remux ( and I was very careful about disabling the header compression ) and it didn't help - same result as the untouched mkv - i.e. no playback and the same ffmpeg error when trying to transcode ...

Look at this, I never try : viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2223

Interesting - I will give that a try
I should have noted that vlc and mpc-hc have no problems at all with any of the mkvs when played directly ( not via dlna), even though I appreciate that vlc in particular is very tolerant of odd files ...

I have a US model sony bdp-S580.

I have updated to the most recent firmware M07.R.0427, and running serviio 0.6.0.1.

Should i still make the revision to the profile you recommended in your Feb 2011 post titled "[Readme] Sony Bluray Disc Player 2010 series"

which required editing the profile, or is this edit included in the latest version, and what does this edit do exactly? (sorry being such a newbie)


"There is one more edit to the BDP profile required if you want this change and you have a US player:
Change
Code:
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">MATROSKA</MediaFormatProfile>


to
Code:
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/mpeg">MATROSKA</MediaFormatProfile>"

Hi Roswell grey - thanks for chasing this down. I now realise how it is that I can be here saying that I don't have a problem with this issue!

I'm running my own slightly newer compile of FFmpeg (0.8.2 instead of 0.8) which I built for my Synology package. It was the last build before they started screwing around with codec names and syntax. So I reckon my build doesn't have this issue. Here's the source:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1188556/ffmpeg- ... 673.tar.gz
You can test my compiled linux binary (which I think should run on any Intel 64bit CPU with SSSE3) by downloading http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1188556/blog/se ... x86-v1.spk and renaming this file to a .tar extension then extracting package.tgz contained inside. FFmpeg is in the bin folder. Hopefully, you could test on your linux PC.

Perhaps we're gonna need a Serviio 0.6.1 when Zip gets back from holiday...