Serviio

First post but have been trolling here a few weeks. I have looked at alot of Media servers in the last few weeks and really settled on Serviio as the best choice for me. It does a great job to my Samsung LED my PS3 but I am struggling with the subpar DLNA capabilities of my new Panasonic GT 50 and I really want to get them resolved.

Since the Panny does not natively recognize AVI's it now will with Serviios help. The issue I have is that it will try to play and eventually fail to audio format unsupported. I have been using a profile I found here called Panasonic without AVI (I can dig up a link if needed). I know these plasmas are pretty popular and just figured others have had the same struggles. I can certainly get down to the level of details needed for advanced trouble shooting but I figured maybe I am just missing something and others can weigh in on what they have done. I would really like to avoid re encoding all my files to another format via Nero if I dont have to. I am not super tech savvy but probably above average and willing to test or try anything I can. This forum has been a great help getting me this far and I appreciate all the advice that is dispensed here.

Did you try it with this profile? Panasonic Viera E/S/ST/VT (2011)

Thanks for the reply zip i have tried quite a few but I will try that one tomorrow. i did some extensive testing tonight and only found this trouble with one of my avi movies. i recoded that one to mp4 using nero.

Where I see the issue is mainly with tv series and I am not sure why. I am new to the wide variety of formats but i suspect that is maybe the issue on those. I will try that new profile and do more testing. I am relieved it is not as wide spread as I thought since I dont mind cleaning up fixing a few files here and there vs my entire library. Its also odd that the show will beign to play with sound but when I fast forward to where I left off i have issues. I will have to test that on other avis as well.

The only other issue I see is on 2 of mkvs i get audio format not supported but I think i read about a program that will possibly correct those.

So after using serviio for a bit I have a few questions. Mainly my issues are around transcoding and aspect ratio. I am struggling to find the balance between a profile that plays everything (seems for my panasonic gt50 its either Panasonc without AVI support or one the included ones for Panasonic)

However if I use the profiels above it stretched avis and mpeg4 to fill the entire screen. My aspect button on the Panny becomes useless. according to the manufacturer is supports Certain JPEG, SD-Video, AVCHD, MP4, AVI, MKV, FLV, 3GPP, PS, TS, MPEG1, MPEG2, MP3, HE-AAC, and AC3 files can be shared using the DLNA feature. Is there a way to force 16:9 I read a few other threads but i couldnt figure out wher eto insert that change.

I have turned off transcoding and it will fix the mpeg4 stretching but then i cannot play avis at all.

seems like your TV has a pretty wide support set. Have you tried changing to the generic profile?