Serviio

Hello -

I'm using Serviio to try and stream to a Panasonic Viera ST30 from my Macbook running Snow Leopard. Serviio downloaded and seems to be installed ok. The TV sees Serviio as a DLNA server; it can even see the movie I added to a folder under Serviio's 'Library' tab. However, when I try to play the movie from the TV it says "cannot read file." Under the 'Status' tab I have the TV set up with the 'Panasonic Viera' profile, which I assume should set up the correct transcoding. Any ideas on what I can try to get the movie to play? Is there some further step I should be taking to get Serviio to transcode, or does it do that automatically on the fly?

Thanks for any thoughts.

Could you provide informations about your movie, see my signature links?

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get file information using the methods suggests in your sig link, possibly because they don't work as well for macs?

1) Serviio.log file doesn't list media. Instead, there are a number of entries like this:

011-05-18 15:23:32,122 ERROR [DiscoverySSDPMessageListener] Cannot open multicast socket,will try again
java.net.BindException: Address already in use
at java.net.PlainDatagramSocketImpl.bind0(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainDatagramSocketImpl.bind(PlainDatagramSocketImpl.java:82)
at java.net.DatagramSocket.bind(DatagramSocket.java:368)
at java.net.MulticastSocket.bind(MulticastSocket.java:162)
at java.net.MulticastSocket.<init>(MulticastSocket.java:147)
at java.net.MulticastSocket.<init>(MulticastSocket.java:112)
at org.serviio.util.MultiCastUtils.startMultiCastSocketForListening(MultiCastUtils.java:44)
at org.serviio.upnp.discovery.DiscoverySSDPMessageListener.run(DiscoverySSDPMessageListener.java:79)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:637)

2) Downloaded Intel UPnP tools. However, I couldn't work out which of the tools was 'AV Media Controller', and Finder did not know how to run the files I tried to start (such as AVMediaController.csproj, AVMediaController.suo).

3) I ran the Ffmpeg executable file. However, doubleclicking it just opens the mac Terminal, which runs thru a 'login' process for FFmpeg itself, then displays [Process completed] at the bottom of the screen. It doesn't accept any text input. Is there something more to be done to enter a command for FFmpeg?

Thanks.

Look at this post it tells how to run ffmpeg -i on a Mac.

http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=960#p12328

Thanks - ran FFmpeg -i. Here's the result:
...
FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jan 12 2011 19:51:48 with gcc 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --bindir=/tmp/ffmpeg --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-libmp3lame --enable-pthreads --disable-mmx --extra-ldflags=-L/tmp/static/lib --extra-cflags=-I/tmp/static/include
libavutil 50.36. 0 / 50.36. 0
libavcore 0.16. 0 / 0.16. 0
libavcodec 52.108. 0 / 52.108. 0
libavformat 52.92. 0 / 52.92. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 3 / 52. 2. 3
libavfilter 1.72. 0 / 1.72. 0
libswscale 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0
Input #0, avi, from '/Users/Shared/movies/serviiotest/MidsomerDeadWater.avi':
Metadata:
encoder : MEncoder dev-CVS-051014-22:10-3.4.4
Duration: 01:32:56.60, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1712 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 512x336 [PAR 1:1 DAR 32:21], 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 192 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified