Serviio

Hi,

Firstly let me say thanks for developing a great program (and for making it free), to cut a long story short it has enabled me to get rid of my Netgear NTV550.

Now to my problem, my setup is as follows;

HP Mediasmart EX490 (CPU Upgraded) running Serviio 0.6.2 wired to;
Netgear 'N' Router out to;
Homeplug 85mbps to;
Homeplug 85mpbs to:
TP-Link 4 port router wired to:
Panasonic GT30

I'm using the latest Panasonic (with AVI) Profile as posted in this forum.

I understand that the 85mbps Homeplugs are likely to be the cause of some issues and will upgrade them to 500mpbs soon.

I recently dowloaded two episodes of a TV series, one plays fine and the other is all blocky with what looks like frame/scenes overlapping, I guess it could be at the limit of the homeplugs but to my 'untrained' eye the files look similar. This happens with numerous TV series files, I'm using these as a good example.

I've included the ffmpeg details of the two files below, S07E13 plays fine, S07E14 doesn't. I can see that there is a different encoder but whilst being reasonably PC literate I'm a total noob when it come to video/audio stuff.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Russell

:\Videos\Supernatural\Series 7>ffmpeg.exe -i "supernatural.s07e13.hdtv.xvid-lol
.avi"
ffmpeg version 0.9, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Dec 13 2011 20:46:11 with gcc 4.4.2
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffs
erver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --extra-libs='
-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enab
le-pthreads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --pkg-config=pkg-co
nfig
libavutil 51. 32. 0 / 51. 32. 0
libavcodec 53. 42. 0 / 53. 42. 0
libavformat 53. 24. 0 / 53. 24. 0
libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
libavfilter 2. 53. 0 / 2. 53. 0
libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
Input #0, avi, from 'supernatural.s07e13.hdtv.xvid-lol.avi':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf53.2.0
Duration: 00:40:51.36, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1194 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (XVID / 0x44495658), yuv
420p, 624x352 [SAR 1:1 DAR 39:22], SAR 180224:180219 DAR 8192:4621, 23.98 tbr, 2
3.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 151 kb
/s


E:\Videos\Supernatural\Series 7>ffmpeg.exe -i "supernatural.s07e14.hdtv.xvid-lol
.avi"
ffmpeg version 0.9, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Dec 13 2011 20:46:11 with gcc 4.4.2
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffs
erver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --extra-libs='
-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enab
le-pthreads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --pkg-config=pkg-co
nfig
libavutil 51. 32. 0 / 51. 32. 0
libavcodec 53. 42. 0 / 53. 42. 0
libavformat 53. 24. 0 / 53. 24. 0
libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
libavfilter 2. 53. 0 / 2. 53. 0
libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65535/
2733) -> 23.98 (2997003/125000)
Input #0, avi, from 'supernatural.s07e14.hdtv.xvid-lol.avi':
Metadata:
encoder : transcode-1.0.6
Duration: 00:41:29.61, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1180 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (XVID / 0x44495658), yuv
420p, 624x352 [SAR 1:1 DAR 39:22], 23.98 tbr, 23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb
/s

the encoder of the second file is known to cause issues with DLNA use teh below link to fix the offending file.

http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=fix_avis

Thanks, worked a treat.

Any view on the 85mbps Homeplugs and whether they should be upgraded ?

im wrong person to ask i hate the things with a passion.