Serviio

hello,

I have a Panasonic 50UT50 which has native mkv support but no AVI support.
I have Serviio up and running and using the viera2011 profile which has Serviio transcoding AVI files as follows:

<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3">
<Matches container="avi" />

The results on the TV are not so good. Specifically:
-the audio is cloudy and a little noisy
-the aspect ratio is forced from the original 4:3 to 16:9
-video edges are not crisp
-after about 10 mins of playing it stops and an error message shows on the TV

As a test, I tried using HandBrake to transcode the entire .avi file ahead of time using the following HandBrake settings: Container=MKV. Video=H.264 Audio=MP3 passthru.

Now when I request, Serviio serves up the new .mkv file, does not transcode, and the results are really good. Audio is clean, aspect ratio is correct at 4:3, video quality is quite good and the playback no longer dies after 10 mins.

I thought I would tune the Serviio profile so the transcoding matches what HandBrake did but alas those targets don't seem to be available.

So... is there a plan to add more container and codec targets in Serviio ? or am I missing something?

thanks for reading this far.

post your server logs after it fails so we see what's happening when it fails.

Also you may want to try adding aBtrate to your profile for the sound issues, I had a similar sound issue with AVI's that was resolved with this setting.
details here
http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... icle&id=24

You can try transcoding to mp3 instead of ac3 and add DAR="16:9" to the transcoding config.