[SOLVED] Resuming video after pausing fails

Hi all,

last weekend I found out about the Serviio project and must say that I really like it very much. So fra this is the only DLNA server that actually works with my Sony Bravia KDL-46EX715.

However, there is one small question that I have not been able to find the answer for so far: When playing a video, pausing it and the trying to resume the playback, my Bravia gives the message "Playback not available" (Translated from the German message: "Wiedergabe nicht verfügbar"). I just tried accessing the movie with an iPad and there pasuing and resuming works just fine. So it brings my to the question: Is this a general problem with the Bravia TV? Any chance that changing the configuration might make resuming videos possible?

Thanks in advance for any hints!

Keep up the great work for the project!


Christian

[Illico]

Could you provide information about this file?
"ffmpeg -i" and MediaInfo result (see signature links)

Hi,

this is not specific to any particular file. It happens with any video playback, no matter if avi, mpeg or whatever. I have tested it with nearly all video files I have, it's the same with all these files. Resuming the playback of music files works without problems.

Best regards

Christian

EDIT: here is one additional info: playing (streaming) the same file via Serviio on an iPad2 works fine, so my suspicion is that it has something to do with the Bravia profile.

Hi,

I test a lot of files with Bravia 46ex500 (sony bravia TV) and Bravia 32cx520 (sony bravia TV 2011) --> resuming video after pausing works fine for me ...

Bravia gives the message "Playback not available"

Can be the version of ffmpeg. is it 0.8+ ? what operating system for serviio ?

Bravia gives the message "Playback not available"

Can be the version of ffmpeg. is it 0.8+ ? what operating system for serviio ?

Hi,

the version of ffmpeg is

  Code:

ffmpeg version 0.7.2-4:0.7.2-1ubuntu1

running on Ubuntu servr 64bit, (Oneiric)

The thing that confuses me is that accessing the media files over serviio from an ipad is working just fine and there it was no problem to pause and resume the playback. So in general it should not be a problem of serviio itself or with ffmpeg. I suspect that something in the profile for the Bravia breaks the pause/resume feature.

Best regards

Christian

EDIT: I just added a log file. Started the file sample.avi which was played via transcoding. Then paused the file and tried to resume it. Resuming failed with the message "Playback not available". In the log I see some messages about broken pipe and "unsopported time range request" but I am not sure if this has something to do with it. While doing this test the repository was rescanned, I tried to filter all the messages regarding the rescan so please ignore any log messages that don't belong to the streaming of the file.

Hope this one helps.

[jhb50]

Looks to me like you have 2 problems.

The first and most serious is that you get a broken pipe error when you press pause ||. I'd suggest you post that as a Serviio bug.

The second is that when you then try and resume, it fails. This is probably because your TV does not support Resume. I have the same problem on my Samsung. See http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3643#p24259 although the posts there imply that Sony does support resume.

Best I can do for you.

May be different, you are correct, if it works for ipad should work also for tv.


For my tv to support resume and stuff I had to update ffmpeg as in: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3691&p=24722

The interesting thing is in the ubuntu 11.4 desktop edition it just worked and then it broke in 11.10 server edition.

May be different, you are correct, if it works for ipad should work also for tv.


For my tv to support resume and stuff I had to update ffmpeg as in: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3691&p=24722

The interesting thing is in the ubuntu 11.4 desktop edition it just worked and then it broke in 11.10 server edition.

Thanks a lot for this hint. Upgrading to the latest version of ffmpeg did the trick.

Great!

Christian