Serviio

Hi,

Here's the environment I have:

Serviio 1.1 installed on Fedora Core 17 with all the latest updates (with the default device profiles that came with Serviio)
Client 1: Samsung BD-C6500 Blu-ray player (uses the Samsung C/D profile)
Client 2: XBMC 12.0 (Frodo) RC3 installed on 64-bit Windows-7 (uses the Generic profile)

On above systems, I can play .mkv and .m4 all day long, works great. I have some MPEG-2 TS files, but on my clients I don't see these listed under either "Titles" or if I navigate to the folders offered up by Serviio. I have tried renaming to .ts and .mp4 without any change in behavior. Of course, if I navigate on XBMC using the Windows SMB mount instead of uPnP/DLNA, XBMC can play the files just fine. I have verified using the Serviio log that Serviio adds/removes the files as I change extensions on the file system, i.e. the files are in Serviio's library.

Any help on how I can play these files on my Samsung will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Shash

PS: Here's the MediaInfo info:

General
ID : 1 (0x1)
Complete name : M:\video\Movies\myvideo.m2ts
Format : BDAV
Format/Info : Blu-ray Video
File size : 43.1 GiB
Duration : 2h 57mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 34.8 Mbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 35.5 Mbps

Video
ID : 4113 (0x1011)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : 27
Duration : 2h 57mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 32.1 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 38.3 Mbps
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 : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.646
Stream size : 39.7 GiB (92%)
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio #1
ID : 4352 (0x1100)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : TrueHD / AC-3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Muxing mode : Stream extension
Codec ID : 131
Duration : 2h 57mn
Bit rate mode : Variable / Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 5 445 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 811 MiB (2%)
Language : English

Audio #2
ID : 4353 (0x1101)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness : Big
Codec ID : 129
Duration : 2h 57mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 640 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 811 MiB (2%)
Language : English

Text #1
ID : 4608 (0x1200)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Language : English

Text #2
ID : 4609 (0x1201)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Language : English

Text #3
ID : 4610 (0x1202)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Language : Japanese

Text #4
ID : 4611 (0x1203)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Language : Japanese

Text #5
ID : 4612 (0x1204)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Language : Japanese

Text #6
ID : 4613 (0x1205)
Menu ID : 1 (0x1)
Format : PGS
Codec ID : 144
Language : Japanese

can you post ffmpeg -i of the file?

Hi Petr,

Thanks a bunch for looking at this, much appreciated. The ffmpeg output is below. By the way, I originally had the ffmpeg and lame etc. libs from the Serviio-1.1 distribution installed. Yesterday I had installed the latest ffmpeg for fc17 via yum. In either case, the behavior was the same.

Thanks,
Shash


ffmpeg -i myvideo.m2ts
ffmpeg version 0.10.6 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on Oct 31 2012 22:24:06 with gcc 4.7.2 20120921 (Red Hat 4.7.2-2)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --datadir=/usr/share/ffmpeg --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --libdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --arch=x86_64 --extra-cflags='-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic' --enable-bzlib --disable-crystalhd --enable-gnutls --enable-libass --enable-libcdio --enable-libcelt --enable-libdc1394 --disable-indev=jack --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-openal --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libpulse --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libv4l2 --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab --enable-avfilter --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-gpl --disable-debug --disable-stripping --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-runtime-cpudetect
libavutil 51. 35.100 / 51. 35.100
libavcodec 53. 61.100 / 53. 61.100
libavformat 53. 32.100 / 53. 32.100
libavdevice 53. 4.100 / 53. 4.100
libavfilter 2. 61.100 / 2. 61.100
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 6.100 / 0. 6.100
libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100
[mpegts @ 0x1322fa0] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5000000
[NULL @ 0x13309e0] start time is not set in estimate_timings_from_pts
[NULL @ 0x13314c0] start time is not set in estimate_timings_from_pts
[NULL @ 0x1336e00] start time is not set in estimate_timings_from_pts
[NULL @ 0x13377c0] start time is not set in estimate_timings_from_pts
[NULL @ 0x1338140] start time is not set in estimate_timings_from_pts
[NULL @ 0x1338bc0] start time is not set in estimate_timings_from_pts
Input #0, mpegts, from 'myvideo.m2ts':
Duration: 02:57:09.20, start: 599.958300, bitrate: 34802 kb/s
Program 1
Stream #0:0[0x1011]: Video: h264 (High) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 90k tbn, 47.95 tbc
Stream #0:1[0x1100](eng): Audio: truehd (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s32
Stream #0:2[0x1100]: Audio: ac3 (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16, 640 kb/s
Stream #0:3[0x1101](eng): Audio: ac3 (AC-3 / 0x332D4341), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16, 640 kb/s
Stream #0:4[0x1200](eng): Subtitle: hdmv_pgs_subtitle ([144][0][0][0] / 0x0090)
Stream #0:5[0x1201](eng): Subtitle: hdmv_pgs_subtitle ([144][0][0][0] / 0x0090)
Stream #0:6[0x1202](jpn): Subtitle: hdmv_pgs_subtitle ([144][0][0][0] / 0x0090)
Stream #0:7[0x1203](jpn): Subtitle: hdmv_pgs_subtitle ([144][0][0][0] / 0x0090)
Stream #0:8[0x1204](jpn): Subtitle: hdmv_pgs_subtitle ([144][0][0][0] / 0x0090)
Stream #0:9[0x1205](jpn): Subtitle: hdmv_pgs_subtitle ([144][0][0][0] / 0x0090)
At least one output file must be specified

it's due to the truehd audio codec, probably.

Find this line in the C/D/E profile



and add this one after that

Hi Petr,

Yes, that solved it. I can see and play the file on Samsung now. Thanks!

However, looks like my server cannot keep up with the frame rates when transcoding, both video and audio are choppy. I have an i5 with 3 (tried 4 also) cores allocated to Serviio transcoding. Is there a config which will allow playing it directly without transcoding? Or, is there some config I am missing to make transcoding work better?

Thanks,
Shash

Petr,

I experimented some more. I created a transcoding config to take the truehd stream and convert to lpcm, and as I understood it, the video was not converted:
<Video targetContainer="m2ts" targetACodec="lpcm">
<Matches container="mpegts" vCodec="h264" aCodec="truehd" />
</Video>

But, still the video/audio was choppy. I then tried XBMC running directly on my server and using files directly off the filesystem, and even then the video/audio was choppy. I resolved the XBMC problem by turning off the TrueHD audio stream, and then everything was fine. Seems like the TrueHD stream is just too high a bit rate for my system to keep up, the CPU or I/O or both gets too busy. The files I have also have AC-3 stream inside the container, how can I configure Serviio to pass the AC-3 stream directly to the Samsung and skip the TrueHD stream?

Thanks,
Shash

Currently is uses the first track, so you'd have to remux your file so that the ac3 track is the first.