Serviio

Hello Everyone,

I have a file that will not play on the PS3, either from Serviio or from a USB stick. While it plays in my Sony Blu-Ray player without an issue from both Serviio and a USB stick, the PS3 has a problem with it. Since it didn't play from a USB stick, I forced it to transcode in the PS3 profile by adding the following, and then it worked fine:

However, this obviously has the side effect of transcoding all h264 video that is higher than level 4.1, not just those with the "high" and "main" profiles as originally specified in the profile. The video is question uses the Constrained Baseline Profile, so I tried to target it with the following code, but it appears that "baseline" only matches the actual Baseline Profile, not the CBP.

Obviously, this doesn't transcode the video since it isn't the actual Baseline Profile, and I get an error message that "The Data is Corrupted" when I try to play it. Short of using vFourCC to isolate it a little more, I'm not sure of the best transcoding configuration in this case. As of now, I'm just using the first statement to transcode all profiles, but I would prefer if I could isolate it a little more. I appreciate any guidance you can provide.

Hi, it's not possible to match on constrained baseline in 1.1, just added it for future 1.2

Great, thank you. I'll just transcode all H.264 videos with a level above 4.1 in the meantime then.

It should actually match the baseline profile now. Does the video really have level > 4.1?

Honestly, I'm not sure. I'm only assuming it does since adding the following forces it to transcode. What is the best way of finding that information? Could it still be 4.1 or below with this statement?

look at MediaInfo output for the file, it'll tell you the profile.

Baseline@L3.0. Assuming that is version 3.0, I'm not sure why adding the code to the profile causes it to encode since it should only be targeting levels above 4.1.

According to you it doesn't transcode, which seems right.


So your baseline level 3 video will not be matched by this line (it only matches files with level 4.2 and above). To transcode all baseline files try:

No dice, but thanks for the suggestion. Same message that the data is corrupt. While you are correct that "<Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" profile="baseline" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />" doesn't transcode it, I also mentioned that "<Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />" causes it to transcode. As such, I have to believe that either 1) I'm not reading the level correctly from MediaInfo or 2) the level detection isn't working properly in Serviio. Either way, it doesn't appear to be matching on the CBP since "<Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" profile="baseline" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />" doesn't cause it to transcode, but removing the profile on the line transcodes it.

Yes, levelGreaterThan is only used when profile is specified (http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... icle&id=24).

BUt you are saying that even if it transcodes it still doesn't play? Can you see some FFmpeg errors in the log?

Oh, I see. I didn't realize that levelGreaterThan is ignored if a profile isn't specified. That would explain quite a bit then. As such, we can conclude that the following will transcode the file:

However, the following will not transcode:


Perhaps I'm not being clear, and for that I apologize. Any time the file is transcoded, it plays fine. The problem comes when the file is not transcoded, and that only happens when the matching is incorrect. It appears that this file's CBP isn't being matched to the baseline profile. I'll try to restart the Serviio service and try it again, but I know it didn't work last night when I tried it.

It should. It should match any container with h264 baseline videos. Constrained baseline == baseline in 1.1. Make sure there is nothing before this rule that would be picked first.

Just tried it again, and no dice. It transcodes fine with the following (although you mentioned level is ignored without a profile):

The following does not transcode:

I do not see anything that this video file would be matching on earlier in the transcoding profile, but maybe I'm just missing it. If it helps, this is the entire PS3 section from my profile list:

Just to try:

Sorry, no luck.

Can you try to remove the file, force refresh, add it again, force refresh

all with detailed log

It should show which profile Serviio found when the file is again added

Assuming I understand you correctly, should I just put the file in a specific folder and add it to the library? I have the root folder in Serviio, and if I remove it and re add it, I'm guessing it will show up thousands of videos in the log. Just want to make it easier to go through.

You can add it to another folder, yes.

I tried to copy it to another folder and add that folder in Serviio, but I'm not seeing the log file reflecting it as such. This is all I could find. Am I doing something wrong?

Did you check to search for video files in that folder?