Serviio

Posted: **Sun May 06, 2012 3:02 pm**

Hey there! I did a search already and didn't find anything on this topic yet. Does Serviio support transcoding of H264 Hi10p files? I run XBMC on an ION box and with the current VDPAU profile Hi10p is not supported (which means that 1080p or 720p files in Hi10p stutter badly). I was hoping to use the power of my core i5 desktop to transcode these types of files to XBMC but I need to know if Serviio supports this. Thanks!

Posted: **Sun May 06, 2012 3:12 pm**

If there is no mention on the forum, then its probably that no one has had a problem/doesn't use them. If I was you I would simply try it, install serviio add the files and try to play them. Serviio will support transcoding from pretty much anything provided ffmpeg can read it.
If they don't work (it is quite likely that serviio won't try to transcode them) then http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=file_np and we can setup a working profile for them. You could also try the Direct TV profile that transcodes almost everything, although it is always nicer to transcode only the videos that really need it.

Edit, looking at a profile we can select to transcode based on the profile and level, so far I've only seen profile main and high, so would need zip to confirm if we could use 'high 10' in the profile field.

Code:: <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="192"> <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" profile="high" levelGreaterThan="4.1" /> </Video>

Posted: **Sun May 06, 2012 3:29 pm**

OK I have installed serviio and the problem that I see streaming from XBMC remains. Namely I am getting like 8FPS on a file which has 24FPS :-/

My desktop is a core i5-2400, 16GB ram, windows 7 64-bit, dual ATI radeon HD 5670 (crossfired).

Output of ffmpeg -i:

Code:: C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg -i "J:\Tiger & Bunny\[Zurako]_Tiger_&_Bunny _01v2_(BD_1080p_FLAC)_[DB7E34FE].mkv" 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: 47.95 (3692/7 7) -> 48.00 (48/1) Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'J:\Tiger & Bunny\[Zurako]_Tiger_&_Bunny_01v2_(BD_ 1080p_FLAC)_[DB7E34FE].mkv': Duration: 00:24:11.48, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 9567 kb/s Chapter #0.0: start 0.000000, end 50.175000 Metadata: title : Introduction Chapter #0.1: start 50.175000, end 140.223000 Metadata: title : Opening Theme Chapter #0.2: start 140.223000, end 624.415000 Metadata: title : Part A Chapter #0.3: start 624.415000, end 1322.112000 Metadata: title : Part B Chapter #0.4: start 1322.112000, end 1412.452000 Metadata: title : Ending Theme Chapter #0.5: start 1412.452000, end 1435.517000 Metadata: title : After Ending Chapter #0.6: start 1435.517000, end 1451.488000 Metadata: title : Preview Stream #0:0(jpn): Video: h264 (High 10), yuv420p10le, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 23.97 fps, 48 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc Metadata: title : Tiger & Bunny Episode 01 Stream #0:1(jpn): Audio: flac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s32 (default) Metadata: title : FLAC 2.0 24-bit Stream #0:2(eng): Subtitle: ssa (default) Metadata: title : Dmonhiro Stream #0:3: Attachment: ttf Metadata: filename : ArnoPro-Regular.otf mimetype : application/x-truetype-font Stream #0:4: Attachment: ttf Metadata: filename : Antipasto.ttf mimetype : application/x-truetype-font Stream #0:5: Attachment: ttf Metadata: filename : GeosansLight.ttf mimetype : application/x-truetype-font Stream #0:6: Attachment: ttf Metadata: filename : LT.ttf mimetype : application/x-truetype-font Stream #0:7: Attachment: ttf Metadata: filename : LT_3italic.ttf mimetype : application/x-truetype-font At least one output file must be specified C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>

Output from mediainfo:

Code:: General Unique ID : 234871887686581177626294426787924541193 (0xB0B2AE1EE70822FA9D3521869EC1FF09) Complete name : J:\Tiger & Bunny\[Zurako]_Tiger_&_Bunny_01v2_(BD_1080p_FLAC)_[DB7E34FE].mkv Format : Matroska Format version : Version 2 File size : 1.62 GiB Duration : 24mn 11s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 9 567 Kbps Encoded date : UTC 2012-01-15 14:27:52 Writing application : mkvmerge v3.4.0 ('Rapunzel') built on May 15 2010 09:38:20 Writing library : libebml v0.8.0 + libmatroska v0.9.0 Attachment : Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High 10@L5.1 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 16 frames Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration : 24mn 11s Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate : 23.976 fps Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 10 bits Scan type : Progressive Title : Tiger & Bunny Episode 01 Writing library : x264 core 120 r2120 0c7dab9 Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=16 / deblock=1:0:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=8 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=16.5 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=81 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.10 Language : Japanese Default : No Forced : No Audio ID : 2 Format : FLAC Format/Info : Free Lossless Audio Codec Codec ID : A_FLAC Duration : 24mn 11s Bit rate mode : Variable Channel(s) : 2 channels Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Bit depth : 24 bits Title : FLAC 2.0 24-bit Writing library : libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17) Language : Japanese Default : Yes Forced : No Text ID : 3 Format : ASS Codec ID : S_TEXT/ASS Codec ID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha Compression mode : Lossless Title : Dmonhiro Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No Menu 00:00:00.000 : Introduction 00:00:50.175 : Opening Theme 00:02:20.223 : Part A 00:10:24.415 : Part B 00:22:02.112 : Ending Theme 00:23:32.452 : After Ending 00:23:55.517 : Preview

I would really like to be able to transcode these 1080p and 720p H264 Hi10p files by taking advantage of the computing power of the machine upon which they reside, rather than asking my little Atom N330/ION box to do it...

Posted: **Sun May 06, 2012 3:44 pm**

Can you try the DirecTV HD-DVR profile (select it in the console).

Code:: Format profile : High 10@L5.1

was what I was expecting, If we can select the High 10 in the profile then we can only transcode what is needed. Otherwise, we might be able to get away with just using the level to filter out those files. Failing that, we can certainly get it to transcode all h264 content.

Posted: **Sun May 06, 2012 6:54 pm**

I'd be thrilled with only transcoding the hi10p stuff.

Posted: **Sun May 06, 2012 7:20 pm**

will wrote:Can you try the DirecTV HD-DVR profile (select it in the console).

Where is that setting?

EDIT: never mind - I found it. Yeah that totally worked.

1080p 10bit file playing cleanly and perfectly, with one exception. Subtitles not working LOL

Posted: **Sun May 06, 2012 7:39 pm**

reading up a little in the forums, it looks like I have to make a tradeoff - either MKV gets transcoded OR MKV doesn't get transcoded but embedded subtitles work.

Is there no way to transcode MKV but retain the embedded subs?

Posted: **Sun May 06, 2012 11:35 pm**

not at the moment.

Posted: **Mon May 07, 2012 9:50 pm**

Oh poo. is that something that I could contribute to?

Posted: **Mon May 07, 2012 10:56 pm**

Waiting for ffmpeg https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/i ... -subtitles

Posted: **Tue May 08, 2012 12:40 pm**

ticket opened over a year ago. Responsible: nobody. Version: None. Priority: Major...

any ETA on that?

Posted: **Tue May 08, 2012 4:05 pm**

Sadly we are waiting on ffmpeg supporting this feature, once it does it will hopefully be intergrated into serviio pretty quickly.

I would love this as my player doesn't allow fastforwarding if I don't enable transcoding, but then I loose subtitles, i've had a look a few times for an intermediate solution, but I don't think there is one.

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2012 2:59 am**

It's shockingly hard to find exactly what google search on FFMPEG will describe exactly this use case. I'm trying to determine if there's already a ticket on FFMPEG's trac for this problem. Any ideas?

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2012 7:14 am**

So i've looked for ffmpeg burn in sub or ffmpeg hard code subtitles etc for embeding the subtitles into the video as text.

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2012 7:58 pm**

FFmpeg devs discuss it for example here: https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmp ... 17059.html
I'm following their mailing list so should know once this becomes available

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