Sony EX720 file plays from USB and not from Serviio

So I am loving Serviio for the most part. My thanks to the amazing community supporting it.

I have a Sony 46EX720 setup through a Linksys e4200 router (with a WD passport drive attached) to my Windows 7 laptop with Serviio. My media files are on my WD passport. I am using the Sony 2011 series profile.

Most of my AVIs were not playing on my TV and the solution I found was to Remux them with AVI-MUX_Gui using the Standalone_AVI_MP3 profile. Then the TV would play the Remuxed file perfectly through Serviio. However, if I put the original AVI on a usb flash drive and plug it into the TV, it plays the original file just fine. So i'm thinking it must be something in the Serviio profile that is presenting the original AVI file to the TV in a manner it does not like. So I am looking for help in fixing the profile so I do not have to Remux those AVIs.

Here is the Mediainfo from the original AVI:

General
Complete name : PATH\FileName.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 174 MiB
Duration : 22mn 45s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 068 Kbps
Writing application : MEncoder dev-SVN-r26940
Writing library : MPlayer

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
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 : 22mn 45s
Bit rate : 933 Kbps
Width : 624 pixels
Height : 352 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.177
Stream size : 152 MiB (87%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 22mn 45s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 123 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 20.0 MiB (11%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.58 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 553 ms

And here is the Remuxed version:

General
Complete name : PATH:\Filename Remux.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 174 MiB
Duration : 22mn 45s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 1 068 Kbps

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
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 : 22mn 45s
Bit rate : 933 Kbps
Width : 624 pixels
Height : 352 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.177
Stream size : 152 MiB (87%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 22mn 45s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 123 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 20.0 MiB (11%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.58 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 240 ms

Thanks in advance for the help. If any other info is needed please let me know.

In case ffmpeg info is also needed, here it is for both files.

Original AVI:

ffmpeg version 0.9, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Dec 13 2011 20:46:11 with gcc 4.4.2
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffs
erver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --extra-libs='
-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enab
le-pthreads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --pkg-config=pkg-co
nfig
libavutil 51. 32. 0 / 51. 32. 0
libavcodec 53. 42. 0 / 53. 42. 0
libavformat 53. 24. 0 / 53. 24. 0
libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
libavfilter 2. 53. 0 / 2. 53. 0
libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
[mpeg4 @ 003f8b60] Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65535/
2733) -> 23.98 (24000/1001)
Input #0, avi, from 'H:\FileName.avi':
Metadata:
encoder : MEncoder dev-SVN-r26940
Duration: 00:22:45.38, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1068 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (XVID / 0x44495658), yuv
420p, 624x352 [SAR 1:1 DAR 39:22], 23.98 tbr, 23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb
/s
At least one output file must be specified


******************************
Remuxed AVI:

ffmpeg version 0.9, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Dec 13 2011 20:46:11 with gcc 4.4.2
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffs
erver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --extra-libs='
-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enab
le-pthreads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --pkg-config=pkg-co
nfig
libavutil 51. 32. 0 / 51. 32. 0
libavcodec 53. 42. 0 / 53. 42. 0
libavformat 53. 24. 0 / 53. 24. 0
libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
libavfilter 2. 53. 0 / 2. 53. 0
libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
[mpeg4 @ 01928b60] Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65535/
2733) -> 23.98 (10000000/417083)
Input #0, avi, from 'H:\FileName Remux.avi':
Duration: 00:22:45.07, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1068 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (XVID / 0x44495658), yuv
420p, 624x352 [SAR 1:1 DAR 39:22], 23.98 tbr, 23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb
/s
At least one output file must be specified

[Illico]

We can't compare the USB and DLNA feature, this is not the same firmware used, that is why some files played fine over USB and not over DLNA.
Sorry, I don't know why this avi file does not work over your DLNA...

The only differences in your examples, are the application used to avi container remuxing, and the audio interleave preload duration : 240 ms/553ms

Ahh. I didn't know that the usb file support is different from the dlna support. In this case how can I setup the serviio profile to remux any avi I play similar to the avi-mux_gui profile that I was using? That would save me the headache of manually remuxing them.

Thanks

[Illico]

In this case how can I setup the serviio profile to remux any avi I play similar to the avi-mux_gui profile that I was using? That would save me the headache of manually remuxing them.

Select "Sony Bravia 2010" profile on serviio console.

The only difference between 2010 and 2011 profile is avi files will be transcode to mpeg2video.

Yes that is a working option. However, when the AVI's play fine by manual Remuxing, I do not want to unnecessarily transcode them.

So if someone can tell me how to edit the profile so that the AVI's are Remuxed (similar to what I am manually doing with the use of AVIMux_GUI) it would be highly appreciated. In case it helps, I can post the AVIMux_GUI profile I use for the Remuxing.

Thanks.

[Illico]

So if someone can tell me how to edit the profile so that the AVI's are Remuxed (similar to what I am manually doing with the use of AVIMux_GUI) it would be highly appreciated.

AVI target for remuxing is not supported by serviio/ffmpeg.
http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... icle&id=24

targetContainer - compulsory; name of container to transcode into; possible values: asf, mpeg (MPEG2PS), mpegts (MPEG2TS)