Profile for NSZ-GT1 Sony Google TV Blu Ray Box

Ok. So I am new to Serviio and am trying to set up a profile for the media player on a NSZ-GT1 Sony Google TV Blu ray box.

Ultimately I am very very interested in transcoding the m2t files that come from my home video camera into something the media player recognizes but before I get to that I wanted to learn the profile code on something I hoped to be easier. I have several movies which are mp4 with AAC 5.1 48kHz sound. The video plays great (thank you serviio programmers), problem is, the media player only sends my receiver 2 channel sound. However, I have a few other movies which are AC3 5.1 sound and the media player sends all 5.1 channels. So, I figured if I transcode just the audio to AC3, the picture would stay great and I would have my surround sound. Unfortunately, when I try this, Serviio never leaves the "initializing it's video library" screen.

<Profile id="11" name="Google TV" extendsProfileId="1">
<Transcoding>
<Video targetContainer="mp4" targetACodec="ac3">
<Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" aCodec="aac"/>
</Video>
</Transcoding>
</Profile>


The goal was obviously trying to leave the video portion un-transcoded but I noticed none of the current examples show mp4 as a target codec so I figured I would try what all the examples seems to use (mpegts). This time the library would load but when I search to the directory using Serviio's folder option, it doesn't even show my movie.

<Profile id="11" name="Google TV" extendsProfileId="1">
<Transcoding>
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3">
<Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" aCodec="aac"/>
</Video>
</Transcoding>
</Profile>

Obviously I am missing something. Can someone please help me get to the next step. I learn pretty quick and will gladly post my Sony Google TV profile when I get it figured out. Also, if there is some list of viable target codecs I would really appreciate it.

Thanks, CircusDad


FYI: ffmpeg -i info
Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 47.95 (48000/1001) -> 23.98 (24000/1001)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/media/250GBServiio/CircusShare/Movies/Movie4/Movie4.mp4':
Duration: 02:50:56.98, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2421 kb/s
Stream #0.0(und): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x544, PAR 1:1 DAR 40:17, 23.98 tbr, 23.98 tbn, 47.95 tbc
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16
At least one output file must be specified

Also - I followed the instructions for "HOWTO: Provide supported formats of a device" so I could make a complete profile for my device but it did not work. My Blu ray player did not show up. Otherwise I would have provided that info too.

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Did you try to use the Bravia profile? Sony uses specific DLNA profile names and they are all listed in that profile. That's probably why you don't see the files.

More on transcoding config: http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... icle&id=24

Did you try to use the Bravia profile?

Thanks for your quick reply. I just tried the Sony profile and it did not work. Serviio starts ok and my tv can find the server but when I browse the folders they all appear empty.

I should note. The generic profile seems to work very well for me accept for this 5.1 channel sound issue and the fact that it does not see M2T files. Also, I messed with it a bit more last night and noticed that many of the movies that have working AC3 5.1 also use the mkv container. I tried this

<Transcoding>
<Video targetContainer="matroska" targetACodec="ac3">
<Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" aCodec="aac"/>
</Video>
</Transcoding>

And it did not work. It causes Serviio to hang while "initializing it's library"

(thanks for the link to the transcoding page - that's what I had used to get me started but I somehow forgot the fact that it contained a listing of allowable formats )

I thought it might be helpful to post the ffmpeg -i info from a file that does send 5.1 sound to the receiver:

FFmpeg version SVN-r0.5.1-4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
configuration: --extra-version=4:0.5.1-1ubuntu1 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-zlib --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-shared --disable-static
libavutil 49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0
libavcodec 52.20. 1 / 52.20. 1
libavformat 52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0
libavdevice 52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0
libavfilter 0. 4. 0 / 0. 4. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 1 / 0. 7. 1
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
built on Mar 4 2010 12:35:30, gcc: 4.4.3

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 47.95 (27956/583) -> 23.98 (24000/1001)
Input #0, matroska, from '/media/250GBServiio/CircusShare/Movies/Movie5/Movie5.mkv':
Duration: 02:18:15.52, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x800, PAR 1:1 DAR 12:5, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16
Stream #0.2(eng): Subtitle: 0x0000
Stream #0.3(swe): Subtitle: 0x0000
At least one output file must be specified

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I should note. The generic profile seems to work very well for me accept for this 5.1 channel sound issue and the fact that it does not see M2T files. Also, I messed with it a bit more last night and noticed that many of the movies that have working AC3 5.1 also use the mkv container. I tried this

<Transcoding>
<Video targetContainer="matroska" targetACodec="ac3">
<Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" aCodec="aac"/>
</Video>
</Transcoding>

And it did not work. It causes Serviio to hang while "initializing it's library"

(thanks for the link to the transcoding page - that's what I had used to get me started but I somehow forgot the fact that it contained a listing of allowable formats )

You cannot use matroska as targetContainer, only mpeg, mpegts, and asf.

Buy the way, I did work on this quite a bit but never got any form of transcoding to work for me. I will pick the project up in a week or to (kinda busy now) but I am obviously missing something.

Maybe a fresh set of eyes will help me when I start back up.

Thanks for the help you did offer.

Did this ever get resolved? I'm trying to config 0.6.2 to work with NSZ-GT1 and having no luck.

Thanks