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Please can users of following devices please test the profile and report if they are able to play all of their files and if not post information on files that wont play so that profile can be updated in serviio.( howto in my signature )

Profile for (2012) models ONLY. (LW980, LW650, LW550, PZ90, PZ570)

Should this be for the 2011 models ????, the LG 2012 range are due out April.

Will test it out with my LW650 and let you know how it goes.

Thanks for trying for us, we all know how you love the LG's. lol

Hi,

Thank you for the profile, works great for lots of files that did not play before. Also I now experience full Digital audio (no forced downsampling that was needed before due to dts problems).

TV is LG 47LW650W (Nordic version of the LG 650 )

This file does not play, neither video or sound. Handbrake was able to make the sound play but not the movie.

General
Unique ID : 197419820422558953769701253471967386803 (0x9485ACA3F42909CA90319EF331241CB3)
Complete name :
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 6.34 GiB
Duration : 1h 30mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 10.1 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2012-02-26 04:05:32
Writing application : mkvmerge v4.0.0 ('The Stars were mine') built on Jun 6 2010 16:18:42
Writing library : libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 6 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 30mn
Width : 2 560 pixels
Height : 544 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4.706
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Writing library : x264 core 120 r2164 da19765
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=6 / deblock=1:-2:-2 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=0.30:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=36 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=8 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=360 / keyint_min=6 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc=crf / mbtree=0 / crf=17.0 / qcomp=0.70 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / frame-packing=3 / ip_ratio=1.40 / pb_ratio=1.30 / aq=2:1.00
Default : No
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : FLAC
Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec
Codec ID : A_FLAC
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Channel(s) : 8 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Writing library : libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Probably the video resolution not supported
Width : 2 560 pixels
Height : 544 pixels

max should be 1920x1080

Been using the profile for a week now with a variety of files and not had one problem with any file yet.
LW 650 with firmware 5.11.06

Thanks Phil

Thanks for the good work. I'm very happy with this profile.
Is there a way to improve the subtitle support?
I try to make my self clear: the tv's internal player can smoothly play mkv files, with embedded subtitles (srt, ass, etc....).
If I want to play the same files with serviio, I must extract the subtitles and convert in an srt file.
Can serviio use the tv's internal player features?
I already tried to disable transcodng, with no results.

This profile has so far worked much better than the default LG profile with my 47LW5600 TV. It fixes a bunch of errors with unplayable files containing DTS tracks and/or incompatible x264 video encoding settings.

hi
everytime i add this profile to the xml file the servio service starts then stops? any ideas as to what im doing wrong?

Have attached my working profile.xml for you
yours could be crashing because there is already a profile id21 for sony and this has id21 as well ?????????

thanks for this, it works now , but i cant choose the profile from the list?
for get that, ive done it thank you

Hello!

The new profile works perfect on my LW659 S. Now it can play every video file. Unfortunately with a couple of High Res MKVs it won't let me use the fast forward nor the rewind function. Any Chance to fix this?
Do you need the debug.log for that?

brgs

This will only happen on the files that Serviio is transcoding to make it playable on your TV, mine lets me fast forward at 2x - but no faster and no rewind.

@811mark

Yeah, that's what I actually meant. I can play it 2xFF but can't rewind nor can I jump to a certain point in the movie. Is there any chance that this might get fixed? Would be awesome!

Lately I get the Info from the TV that "This File is not valid" for many movies. Even on a movie that had been working with the new settings quiet well for a while.

Andy idea?

Thanks! This profile works with LG 47LW5600 TV with 04.03.01 firmware. That's a 2011 model. It allows me to play:

• FLV with H.264/AAC, sometimes unnecessarily transcoding to MPEG2
• MKV with H.264/DTS, transcoding only audio to AC3
• MKV with High@L5.1 H.264 video, transcoding to MPEG2. (Edit: Some High@L5.1 H.264 will play properly without transcoding, but I don't think Serviio can determine which can play.)
• MOV with MJPEG, transcoding to MPEG2
• OGM with MPEG4/Vorbis, unnecessarily transcoding video to MPEG2

I think the profile id at the start needs to be changed: When I looked in Serviio v0.6.2 profiles.xml, there already was an id=21 profile.

When playing FLV, according to the TV, some files get transcoded to MPEG2 while others are still H.264/AAC. According to MediaInfo, the ones that didn't get transcoded are "AVC (NTSC) (Main@L2.0)", while the ones that did are "AVC (High@L3.0)" and "AVC (NTSC) (High@L3.0)". It's possible to play H.264/AAC FLV without transcoding by deleting and inserting this before that block:Of course, this won't let you play FLV with unsupported codecs such as VP8.

It's still not possible to play MPEG4 with QPEL and/or GMC. MediaInfo considers that "Advanced Simple@L5", but adding a levelGreaterThan="4.2" test for vCodec="mpeg4" results in all MPEG4 files being transcoded. Do I need to test for some higher level, or is there another way to detect QPEL and GMC?

Edit: I wonder if it would be a good idea to include aBitrate and maxVBitrate. I see that the default is 192, and that's low for AC3. Many other occurrences of audio transcoding to AC3 use aBitrate="384". As for maxVBitrate, the web page claims you can "omit to keep the same quality". I'm sceptical about that. Should I use the maximum bitrate that the TV can handle, to minimize quality degradation?

Edit: The following can handle OGM with MPEG4/Vorbis, only transcoding the audio. Many things don't like MPEG4 in mpegts but the TV can handle it. I actually put the ogg line into the already existing audio transcoding block.
Edit: It may be a good idea to transcode video from live streams. I found it almost impossible to play the majority of rtmp streams that I could play from my computer. Transcoding the video to MPEG2 helped a lot. Look at my post in another thread.

Well, have the same TV (42LW659S) but, i must say.. no benefits using this profile.
In real life, i have problem only with matroska (mkv) files with DTS audio.. that is what i need this profile for...

The only change is movie icon.. it looks different, but not playable..

Any suggestion? maybe i do not know how to use it.. (it is properly added to xml file, properly numbered, transcoding is turned on.. )

Regards.

I have same problem with my 37LV5500 (2011) after last firmware update. I'v found out that the problem with icon and not-playble file is when 1. file is transcoded AND 2.subtitle for this file is available. Try delete or rename srt file (update library) and MKV with DTS should play.
I also confirm that some High@L5.1 H.264 will play properly without transcoding.
So main problem is again: transoding with subtitles. Because I play 99% movies with subtitles, transcoding is problem for me and if I remember it is problem of LG from beginning (with older firmware transcoding worked but subtitles were ignored) so transcoding was disabled in LG profile.

After last firmware update also friendly name string was changed.

I will check if anything is playable with subtitles removed from movie's directory.
It would be just a test, i need subtitles.

Will be back with results soon..

Sink for TV LG 37LV5500 (firmware 5.11.08)

as i can see, subtitle file has no influence on device's behavior. Movie file is unplayable, no matter if there is subtitle file or not.
So far.. problem with DTS is still unresolved, as far as i am concerned..

i will continue to convert audio part of movie file using mkvdts2ac3.sh script while in Linux, and MKV2AC3 tool when in Windoze..