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OctavianH

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Post Tue Jan 16, 2018 6:37 pm

LG 49UB850V - Profile for MKV HEVC 4K

Hello all,

Has anyone managed to play via DLNA a 4k mkv file encoded via HEVC? This seems to work only via USB, but normally with a proper profile should work via serviio.

Thanks in advance!
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OctavianH

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Post Thu Jan 18, 2018 8:03 am

Re: LG 49UB850V - Profile for MKV HEVC 4K

No one? :)
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Post Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:23 am

Re: LG 49UB850V - Profile for MKV HEVC 4K

Please post MediaInfo for the file
What profile are you currently using?
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Post Sun Jan 21, 2018 4:08 pm

Re: LG 49UB850V - Profile for MKV HEVC 4K

Hi,

First of all, thanks for the reply. Now the information:

MediaInfo of the file is:

General
Unique ID : 217965287305763989768422560859471244364 (0xA3FA965D9CCE8633A5F7F8EF23E46C4C)
Complete name : Z:\Video\4K\The Siege of Jadotville (2016) 2160p Netflix WEB-DL DD5.1 HEVC-TrollUHD.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4 / Version 2
File size : 12.2 GiB
Duration : 1 h 48 min
Overall bit rate : 16.1 Mb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2017-09-05 00:53:27
Writing application : mkvmerge v8.3.0 ('Over the Horizon') 64bit
Writing library : libebml v1.3.1 + libmatroska v1.4.2

Video
ID : 24
Format : HEVC
Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding
Format profile : Main 10@L5@Main
Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC
Duration : 1 h 48 min
Bit rate : 15.7 Mb/s
Width : 3 840 pixels
Height : 2 160 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 24.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 10 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.079
Stream size : 11.9 GiB (98%)
Title : English
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID : 1
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1 h 48 min
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 kb/s
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 298 MiB (2%)
Language : English
Service kind : Complete Main
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Text #1
ID : 2
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 40 s 375 ms
Bit rate : 109 b/s
Count of elements : 13
Stream size : 554 Bytes (0%)
Title : Forced
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : Yes

Text #2
ID : 3
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 46 min
Bit rate : 49 b/s
Count of elements : 1337
Stream size : 38.8 KiB (0%)
Title : SDH
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #3
ID : 4
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 77 b/s
Count of elements : 1138
Stream size : 58.1 KiB (0%)
Language : Arabic
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #4
ID : 5
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 41 b/s
Count of elements : 925
Stream size : 31.0 KiB (0%)
Language : Danish
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #5
ID : 6
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 45 b/s
Count of elements : 1005
Stream size : 33.9 KiB (0%)
Language : German
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #6
ID : 7
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 41 b/s
Count of elements : 1133
Stream size : 31.3 KiB (0%)
Language : Spanish
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #7
ID : 8
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 38 b/s
Count of elements : 1143
Stream size : 29.2 KiB (0%)
Language : Spanish
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #8
ID : 9
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 38 b/s
Count of elements : 820
Stream size : 28.9 KiB (0%)
Language : Finnish
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #9
ID : 10
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 43 b/s
Count of elements : 1110
Stream size : 32.3 KiB (0%)
Language : French
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #10
ID : 11
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 71 b/s
Count of elements : 1099
Stream size : 53.5 KiB (0%)
Language : Hebrew
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #11
ID : 12
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 42 b/s
Count of elements : 1147
Stream size : 31.9 KiB (0%)
Language : Italian
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #12
ID : 13
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 36 b/s
Count of elements : 1023
Stream size : 27.0 KiB (0%)
Language : Japanese
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #13
ID : 14
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 44 b/s
Count of elements : 1152
Stream size : 33.2 KiB (0%)
Language : Korean
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #14
ID : 15
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 41 b/s
Count of elements : 932
Stream size : 31.4 KiB (0%)
Language : Norwegian Bokmal
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #15
ID : 16
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 40 b/s
Count of elements : 860
Stream size : 30.3 KiB (0%)
Language : Dutch
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #16
ID : 17
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 34 b/s
Count of elements : 1122
Stream size : 25.7 KiB (0%)
Language : Polish
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #17
ID : 18
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 43 b/s
Count of elements : 1147
Stream size : 32.5 KiB (0%)
Language : Portuguese
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #18
ID : 19
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 41 b/s
Count of elements : 1122
Stream size : 30.9 KiB (0%)
Title : Brazilian
Language : Portuguese
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #19
ID : 20
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 42 b/s
Count of elements : 857
Stream size : 31.6 KiB (0%)
Language : Swedish
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #20
ID : 21
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 45 b/s
Count of elements : 1086
Stream size : 34.3 KiB (0%)
Language : Turkish
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #21
ID : 22
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 41 b/s
Count of elements : 1153
Stream size : 31.4 KiB (0%)
Title : Simplified
Language : Chinese
Default : No
Forced : No

Text #22
ID : 23
Format : UTF-8
Codec ID : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info : UTF-8 Plain Text
Duration : 1 h 42 min
Bit rate : 42 b/s
Count of elements : 1153
Stream size : 31.9 KiB (0%)
Title : Traditional
Language : Chinese
Default : No
Forced : No

The Serviio version is 1.9 and the profile used is "LG TV / player". I have several files which are not recognized via DLNA but work fine via USB.
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Post Mon Jan 22, 2018 10:29 am

Re: LG 49UB850V - Profile for MKV HEVC 4K

The LG profile doesn't do much by default - it doesn't transcode anything.

To vary the profile to transcode your HEVC videos, try the following:

  • Edit the file config\profiles.xml using your favourite text editor (Notepad++ recommended)
  • find the line
    </MediaFormatProfiles>
    in the "LG TV / player" profile.
  • Add the following below that line
      Code:
    <Transcoding>
          <!-- Transcode all h265 video -->
          <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video maxHeight="1080"  targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384" DAR="16:9" >
                <Matches container="*" vCodec="h265"/>
          </Video>
    </Transcoding>
  • Save the file
  • Restart your PC

If it doesn't work, try it without the maxHeight="1080" and let me know. You may also need to make this number smaller (eg. 720) for other files (if the aspect ratio is > 16:9). After each change save and restart.

If still not working revert the changes and let me know. You will need to make this change every time Serviio is upgraded.

Other files that are not being played may need to be added to the transcode block. Note that this will transcode ALL HEVC videos. Your PC must have the power to do this in real time (becomes a factor particularly with 4K video). If you only need to transcode HEVC 4K video (and not all HEVC) let me know - not sure it can be done, but we may be able to think of a work around.
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OctavianH

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Post Mon Jan 22, 2018 11:05 am

Re: LG 49UB850V - Profile for MKV HEVC 4K

Hi,

I will try this, but maybe I am understanding something wrong. I thought transcoding was needed only for a TV with a different resolution which does not decode HW the HEVC.
So basicly transcoding of this file will re-encode it in realtime with another Video and Audio codecs. This TV is 4K (3840x2160), same resolution as the file, and decodes HW via USB the HEVC.
So why I need transcoding?

Regarding the power of the PC, it is a HP MicroServer Gen8 upgraded to a Xeon 1265L V2 (quad core with HT) so I do not think the transcoding is a problem, what I do not understand is why I need it.

Thanks a lot in advance!
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DenyAll

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Post Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:35 am

Re: LG 49UB850V - Profile for MKV HEVC 4K

It is a common misconception - just because the file plays by USB doesn't mean it will play via DLNA. Seems TV designers often have two different apps/sub systems - one for direct play via USB vs one for DLNA.

To complicate matters, DLNA pre-dates MKV files (there is no allowance for MKV in the DLNA spec). To overcome this, in the absence of transcoding, Serviio simply pushes any MKV directly to your TV. Given this, if Serviio is simply pushing the file to your TV as-is, and your TV cannot play it, it follows that your TV cannot support that file at that resolution over DLNA.

Hence your only option (other than playing via USB) is to transcode the file to something your TV will accept over DLNA.

Hope that makes sense....
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OctavianH

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Post Tue Jan 23, 2018 7:58 am

Re: LG 49UB850V - Profile for MKV HEVC 4K

Thanks a lot for explanation, I was not aware of all these limitations. So your comment is very useful to me to understand the situation.
My purpose is to preserve the 4k resolution and audio quality of the file. The transcoding will alter it in any way? Because otherwise, I can stick to USB and leave it as it is...

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