Serviio

Well ive been using Serviio for the last 2 weeks with my new BDP-S490, using the Sony BD player/SMP profile without issue. I updated my bd player today the latest firmware as of writing and none of my files would play. I would mention that prior to the update my mkv's would be shown as AVI. I seem to has temporarily fixed the problem by changing the profile to the sony tv 2011 profile which actually shows mkv's as mkv's.

The above suggestion does not work post the update.

Apparently the new update places more stringent emphasis on the "correct" identification information being sent to the player by Serviio for correct playing over DLNA with/without transcoding.

Can someone here assist with this - prior to the update (using m12.r.0369), the player would incorrectly show .avi files up as .mpeg files etc, however they played fine. How can the serviio profile.xml file be edited to correctly (and more tightly) show files, and in turn have these players play files via dlna once more. No functionality to be able to play the files was removed - its just how serviio is delivering the files now.

nb: the update (m12.r.0430) affects at a minimum, the 2012 models: S390, S490, S590 and S790 models etc.

Make sure you're still using the correct profile

Hi zip,

Thanks, but I am using the correct Sony BD /SMP Profile linked to the correct IP... infact tried them all.

Issue is the new firmware and its "new" requirements on DLNA Servers... AFAIK from researching the new firmware "m12.r.0430" in conjunction with "dlna" this weekend. Numerous people with the same problem now.

It's regrettably not something I can really investigate, given that I have a 2010 player. I'm not likely to buy a new one since mine works very well. How do you get on with the generic profile for instance?

Hi patters,

With the default profile, .mp4 and .mkv files seem to work.
With the default profile, .avi files are not working - an error message about an incorrect/corrupt file is returned.

For .mp4 files, the file name is <filename>.mp4 and underneath that is reads m2ts file.
For .mkv files, the file name is <file name>.mkv and underneath that it reads m2ts file.
For .avi files, the file name is <file name>.avi and underneath that it reads mpeg file.

Any suggestions for getting .avi files to be seen as .avi files and not .mpeg or alternatively how to cast .avi (xvid and divx) files to m2ts.

All the files play fine off the USB interface, so the native support for the files has been retained.

We just need an updated profile. Please let me know how we can help you to help us further? Don't mind doing the testing and editing the Profile's xml file with your suggestions.

Tonight I will try out a-LeXx's suggestion, whose post from elsewhere writes:

For all those who installed FW update and are having problems with serviio (no AVI playback):

This line in the profile for Sony BDP is causing the problem:


Code:
<MediaFormatProfile name="MPEG_PS_PAL,MPEG_PS_NTSC" mime-type="video/mpeg">AVI</MediaFormatProfile>


Remove this line, and replace it with following:


Code:
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/avi">AVI</MediaFormatProfile>

And voila, AVIs are working again. 2012 BDPs are capable of playing video/avi MIME type, and this is a correct MIME type for AVI files. The previosly used conversion was done for old sony BDPs which couldn't understand video/avi.


You can also use


Code:
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/x-xvid">AVI</MediaFormatProfile>

With the same results, as video/x-xvid is also supported.


Of course, player would still not play DIVX-encoded files, only XVID-encoded ones. To solve this problem, you need to transcode DIVX. For this, find the following section in the BDP profile:


Code:
<Video targetACodec="ac3" targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
<Matches container="asf"/>
<Matches container="flv"/>
<Matches container="ogg"/>
<Matches container="avi" vCodec="dvvideo"/>
<!-- digital camera video formats -->
<Matches container="avi" vCodec="mjpeg"/>
<Matches container="mp4" vCodec="mjpeg"/> </Video>

and replace it with following:


Code:
<Video targetACodec="ac3" targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
<Matches container="flv"/>
<Matches container="ogg"/>
<Matches container="avi" />
<Matches container="mp4" vCodec="mjpeg"/> </Video>

It will transcode all AVI's though. So, only use it if you have lots of DIVX-encoded files. Otherwise, it might be more effective just to change the FOURCC codes of those files to those corresponding to an XVID encoder. Sony is really checking FOURCC codes, and if it's those of DIVX - it will not play. No way to fool it with mime type.

By the way, did you notice that I removed the "asf" transcode as well? That's because 2012 BDPs will play WMV natively, no transcode is required. The transcode was required for older players only...

Anyway, with these changes you should be able now to play all the AVI and WMV files.

And for MKV, find following section:


Code:
<Video targetContainer="mpegts">
<Matches container="matroska"/>
<!-- remux mp4 container files to mpeg-ts to allow seeking -->
<!-- this also fixes the renderer's jerky playback of mov container files such as iPhone 4 HD video recordings -->
<Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264"/>
<Matches container="avi" vCodec="h264"/> </Video>

And replace it with:

Code:
<Video targetContainer="mpegts">
<Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264"/>
<Matches container="avi" vCodec="h264"/> </Video>


Now search for:

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

and remove this line. 2012 BDPs would then play MKVs natively as video/x-matroska MIME type...


Hope this helps one or another frustrated owner
All Credit Goes To a-LeXx

Just to get back to anyone whom this thread assists - the above works and fixes the problems previously experienced.

All files worked perfects using the above fix... remember to restart the Serviio service. Note if you "break" the "form" of the xml file, Serviio will not start up again. So back up the profiles.xml file before editing it... and then take care in following the instructions closely.

I did find that my full DVD mkv copy of my original LoTR DVD (with multiple audio streams and multiple subtitles, and chapter markers created by Pavtube ByteCopy) did not work after changing the mkv settings - all other mkv's tested played though. As this file worked perfectly with the default Serviio profile (and via USB), I would suggest just changing the divx/xvid sections. Instead of changing the FourCCs of every divx file I come across, I opted for the transcoding workaround above for all avi files - "contemporary" processors are fast enough

While those changes for AVI will fix the BDP-Sx90 series in Europe, I think it's fairly likely that they will break the profile for US players. Even the 2010 and 2011 models will play AVI natively like this without switching it to MPEG mime type. That change to MPEG was necessary to make AVI 'just work' for both US *and* European players. Since both regions report the same DLNA model name string Serviio has no way of telling the regions apart. Having to manually select profiles is something we've been actively trying to design out, since it makes things a lot harder for novice users. A big part of Serviio's appeal is that you just install it and it works.

Can someone confirm whether the Sony firmware MKV buffering issue is fixed on the 2012 players? More specifically, while using the Generic profile, when you scan or pause an MKV does it recover and stream smoothly when you carry on playing?

Can someone also check whether you can FFwd/Rew through MP4 files using the generic profile? You couldn't on the older BDPs. Can someone also provide a Wireshark trace of a playback request for MKV, and one for M4V, with a few seconds of the actual stream. I need to see whether the player requests millions of individual HTTP requests for 32KB byte ranges. This really impacts the performance over WiFi as it adds an appreciable overhead to the stream which you don't get on mpegts (hence all the remuxing in the profile).

It may be that we'll need to fragment the profile like we did with the Bravia ones, leaving the current BDP profile as it is, but make a new one called "Sony BDP 2012" with changes. The other issue is that the Sony BDP series don't actually seem to present a proper model name via DLNA. Can someone who has this updated firmware confirm this by using the DeviceSpy tool? (viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19)
There should be some attributes like Manufacturer: Sony Corporation. Does it list the model name anywhere?

Realistically though, I think I'm going to need a test unit.

I ran DeviceSpy on a US BDP-S390 with the latest firmware where AVI and MKV are broken.

Here are the results:

And my EU S790 is here: http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=dev ... at_support

I can confirm that simply picking the Bravia 2012 profile in serviio or the Bravia profile in Homestream fixes the avi/mkv issues. Is there any way to make serviio default to that instead of the blu-ray profile?

There will be a forthcoming profile specifically adapted to this 2012 BDP firmware, but I need to get my hands on a test unit first. Watch this space.

Zip has a 790. Wouldn't that work?

I think he's concentrating on core server development though, rather than profiles.