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How can i set the Height x Width of video when it is transcoded?

I tried the maxHeight in profile.xml but that didnt seem to do anything:
<Video targetContainer="asf" targetVCodec="wmv2" targetACodec="wmav2" maxVBitrate="15360" forceStereo="true" maxHeight="654" >


The reason i want to do this is because my xBox seems to be cutting off around 64px on the height and width of the picture, in the past i have fixed this issue by just lowering the transcode resolution and everything was perfect.

After profiles.xml do you restart the serviio service or reboot your PC ?

I closed ServiioConsole.exe and then stopped the windows service "ServiioService" ("C:\Program Files\Serviio\bin\ServiioService.exe"). After starting them both back up the video was still in its original resolution.

Does anyone know what i am doing wrong here? Maybe there is another way to change the transcoded output resolution?

Perhaps maxHeight="654" optio n is only supported with targetVCodec="mpeg2video" and not wmv2, I don't know ?
Could you enable detailed logging and check the ffmpeg command line used to transcode your file ?

Thanks for the tip Illico, i really appreciate you taking the time to help. i did what you said and enabled the debug logs and checked the FFMPEG line. There is nothing in the command that is changing the resolution in the transcoded file. Is there a way i can pass my own custom commands to FFMPEG from Serviio? Or maybe there is another way to achieve a resolution change.

Here is the FFMPEG command that is getting executed by Serviio



To save you guys some time i read through the log file and found all references to FFMPEG




Here is the important part of the log file:




The complete log file can be found here:
http://tny.cz/018b7ad9

How does the profile you're using look now?

The most important line i edited looks as follows under the default "id="3" name="Xbox 360"" profile:
<Video targetContainer="asf" targetVCodec="wmv2" targetACodec="wmav2" maxVBitrate="15360" forceStereo="true" maxHeight="416">

note a also tried the values 420, 720, 656, and 356 for the maxHeight argument with no success. The debug log shows no sign of any argument being added to the ffmpeg command.


Here is the complete profiles.xml:
http://sdrv.ms/16vB99a

Thank you for taking the time zip, if there is anything else i can do or get to help out let me know.

Is there any way i can input a custom resolution for example 1216x656

The reason i want to do this is because the picture that my xbox is rendering on the TV is cutting off the edge of the picture by about 64 pixels (just enough to make the subtitles hard to read). In the past to fix this error i have transcoded my videos -64px to the height and width and everything fits perfectly.

Can you try a file without subtitle? Or disable using embedded subtitles.

I double checked the settings in profiles.xml and then opened up the temp file created by serviio containing the transcoded video "D:\temp\Serviio\transcoding-temp-100-3-ORIGINAL.stf" and it does appear to be working now. The resolution has in fact been transcoded to height 656px.

The issue was in the Matches containers tag. I changed it from




To this (notice the extra forceVTranscoding="true" and <Matches container="*" />):



It appears as though this was my fault, after having a good nights sleep and re reading the transcoding configuration documentation all is well and working as it should: http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... icle&id=24


This issue is closed, thanks for the help Illico and zip.

forceVTranscoding should only apply if the source and target vCodecs ae the same (ie if true it won't copy the stream but re-transcode it). It should not make any difference for you.