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atc98092 wrote:Are you transcoding H.265 to H.264? That takes a ton of processing power. What is your playback device? Transcoding audio takes very little power, so you're apparently transcoding the video as well. Depending on your player, perhaps you're transcoding more than necessary.

atc98092 wrote:1. Many Blu Ray players do not support lossless audio over DLNA. My Sony in the bedroom will do one of them (TrueHD or DTS MA), but I always forget which one it does play. In general, I just use my Shield for my lossless media, including 4K.

2. Having a player that doesn't require transcoding is really nice. I use the Nvidia Shield on my two 4K TVs, and it plays everything I have, including all captions, without transcoding. Your BD player is really old, so it doesn't support H.265 video, and apparently won't do DTS MA over DLNA either. I'd have to look at the profile you're using to see why it's running the CPU at 100%, but that's a sure sign you are transcoding the video as well. As long as your media isn't H.265, we can probably find a better profile for you to use, but I'd need your media info to ensure what is needed.

atc98092 wrote:Yes, that is H.264, which your player should be fine with. So, you're transcoding the video without the need. Try using the Roku TV profile, as that will not transcode H.264 but does transcode lossless audio codecs.

atc98092 wrote:Well, depending on your computer 27% might not be out of line transcoding the audio. The 4K Roku TV profile will not transcode H.265, so if you have any videos with that you can't use that profile. Otherwise those two profiles are identical.

The other thing is that the Roku profiles all use the HLS (applehttp) container for transcoding, so it's possible your player doesn't like HLS. I'm away from home this week, so I can't examine any other profiles to suggest to try. But as I said, 27% isn't all that bad, and certainly shows that video transcoding isn't being done.

But we've got to get your video working as well. Off the top of my head, you might try the Samsung J Series. I'm not certain there's any more recent (letter further down the alphabet) Samsung profile to try. But it doesn't use HLS, so that might be a good test.

atc98092 wrote:Well, depending on your computer 27% might not be out of line transcoding the audio. The 4K Roku TV profile will not transcode H.265, so if you have any videos with that you can't use that profile. Otherwise those two profiles are identical.

The other thing is that the Roku profiles all use the HLS (applehttp) container for transcoding, so it's possible your player doesn't like HLS. I'm away from home this week, so I can't examine any other profiles to suggest to try. But as I said, 27% isn't all that bad, and certainly shows that video transcoding isn't being done.

But we've got to get your video working as well. Off the top of my head, you might try the Samsung J Series. I'm not certain there's any more recent (letter further down the alphabet) Samsung profile to try. But it doesn't use HLS, so that might be a good test.

atc98092 wrote:OK, let's look at The Blind Side. The video codec is VC-1, which I would expect your Panasonic BD player to support. The audio is DTS Master Audio. Now, your spreadsheet doesn't list the Serviio profile assigned to your Panasonic, so considering the Roku TV profile, it would attempt to use HLS as the destination container, transcode the video to H.264 and the audio to Dolby Digital. In theory, I would expect that to play. Since I'm 700 miles from home, I can't review other profiles to see what else might be worth attempting.

But again, it's possible your Panasonic won't support VC-1 over DLNA. But if memory serves me I included a VC-1 matches line, so it should be transcoded to H.264. And that will push your CPU to almost 100%. But if I placed the VC-1 Matches line in the wrong place, it might match a different line first that doesn't transcode the video, only the audio. And that would cause the error you see. Again, when I get home this weekend I'll look closer at the profiles and see if something might match your player better, or if I need to tweak the Roku profiles.

I can't see any reason why The Borne Identity won't play after the Handbrake conversion. Since the original played, and the Handbrake version appears to be the same video codec, I don't know what differs. But based on the CPU usage something changed. Fortunately you can play the original, so no need to run it through Handbrake.

atc98092 wrote:40 Mbps should be enough for about anything other than 4K material. I do have a few 1080 Blu Ray rips that can exceed 40 Mbps, but most are below 30, even with peaks. 40 Mbps is still more than enough for any online streaming site, including 4K. Those top out at less than 20 Mbps. And DVD rips rarely even reach 10 Mbps.

Notice your Blind Side video info shows an average bitrate of 29 Mbps. That’s pretty typical for 1080 Blu Ray rips. As I said, a 4K/UHD rip will exceed 100, approaching up to 175 Mbps, so wired Gigabit Ethernet to a device that supports it is the preferred connection.

atc98092 wrote:Your Internet speed has nothing to do with your internal network speed, so don't focus on it. Fast Ethernet (100 Mbps) is enough for everything but ripped UHD Blu Rays. And unless you're still on 802.11G for wireless (which maxes out below 50 Mbps), you shouldn't have any issues there either.

I'm home from my trip, so I've looked over the Panasonic profile closer. I've also downloaded the users manual for the BDT110. Frankly, it has very poor support. It appears to only support .MKV and .AVI containers, and doesn't provide any detail about supported codecs. However, since it plays DVD and Blu Ray discs, we should expect support for MPEG-2, H.264 and VC-1 video. But due to the fact that it won't play The Blind Side, which has VC-1 video, I expect their DLNA support is limited.

Looking at the current Panasonic BD Player profile, I would expect it to be transcoding everything that is giving you a problem. Since no DVD contains DTS-MA audio, it doesn't look for that. It does capture DTS-MA in the MKV container if the video is H.264. So it's working correctly with The Borne Legacy. What changed with your Handbrake version, I have no idea, but since the original plays fine, nothing to do there.

It appears your player has a bitrate limitation, as the profile author has all transcoding lines capped at 15.3 Mbps. That really seems low for a BD player, but I don't have one to test with, so can't experiment myself.

But I'm puzzled by The Blind Side. That should be captured by line in the last transcoding block. All I can figure is it's being missed for some reason, so let's try adding an explicit Matches for it.

In the Transcoding section, above the first "<Video targetContainer" line, add this:

  Code:

 <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" maxVBitrate="15360" DAR="16:9" maxWidth="1920" maxHeight="1080">
     <Matches container="*" vCodec="vc1" />
 </Video>


After you add that line, save the file and restart the Serviio server. Then see if Blind Side will play. If it doesn't, then I'm at a complete loss and it's time to think of something else to use as a player. Just be aware that your CPU will likely be maxed out, since you're transcoding video. I've had both a Panasonic BD player and a TV in the past, and both were less than satisfactory as a player for my videos via Serviio. Nothing Serviio can to to fix a poor DLNA player I'm afraid.

atc98092 wrote:Yep, the Nvidia Shield and Kodi is a perfect combination. It plays everything I have without transcoding, and sends all the lossless audio codecs to my AVR and displays whatever captions the video has. I love it.