Fri Sep 19, 2014 7:29 am
46WL800A and HP Gen8 Microserver
Hey,
Just thought I would drop you a note and tell you how my setup was doing. I have an HP Gen8 Microserver running as a NAS box serving all the content. It has Fedora 20 as the OS and serviio doing the media serving bit. The main device that is consuming is a Toshiba Regza 46WL800A.
Overall I would say that 97-99% of content plays great through the Serviio connection. The WL800 has a funny profile, where it will play lots of files natively from a USB, but only plays MPEG through the DLNA profile.
However, despite the microserver only having a slowish (and electronically thrifty) processor nearly everything encodes fine. I occasionally have a little distortion when playing HD video, but quite often after a couple of minutes then enough is cached so that stops.
The one thing is that the rewind functionality does not always work well. On some titles it is fine, and you can skip back a bit, but on others it will seem to rewind but then start playback from where you were. I have not gotten round to checking which formats these are however!
We also occasionally connect with an Xbox 360 and laptops, and they seem to work better than the TV (due to the less transcoding I think).
Anyway, thanks for the project and keep up the good work!
Profile included for reference:
<Profile id="13" name="Toshiba REGZA" extendsProfileId="1">
<Transcoding>
<!-- Some models might play h264 in mpegts - in that case the below can be uncommented -->
<!--Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3">
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" />
</Video-->
<Video targetContainer="mpeg" targetACodec="ac3" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
<Matches container="mp4" />
<Matches container="avi" />
<Matches container="mpegts" />
<Matches container="mpegvideo" />
<Matches container="asf" />
<Matches container="ogg" />
<Matches container="flv" />
<Matches container="3gp" />
<Matches container="rm" />
<Matches container="matroska" />
<!-- if audio different to ac3, must be transcoded -->
<Matches container="mpeg" aCodec="aac" />
<Matches container="mpeg" aCodec="mp3" />
<Matches container="mpeg" aCodec="dca" />
<Matches container="mpeg" aCodec="dts-hd" />
</Video>
<Audio targetContainer="mp3">
<Matches container="mp4" />
<Matches container="flac" />
<Matches container="ogg" />
<Matches container="asf" />
<Matches container="mp2" />
<Matches container="wavpack" />
<Matches container="mpc" />
<Matches container="ape" />
</Audio>
</Transcoding>
<OnlineTranscoding>
<Video targetContainer="mpeg" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3">
<Matches container="mp4" />
<Matches container="flv" />
</Video>
</OnlineTranscoding>
<HardSubsTranscoding>
<Video targetContainer="mpeg" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" />
</HardSubsTranscoding>
</Profile>
Just thought I would drop you a note and tell you how my setup was doing. I have an HP Gen8 Microserver running as a NAS box serving all the content. It has Fedora 20 as the OS and serviio doing the media serving bit. The main device that is consuming is a Toshiba Regza 46WL800A.
Overall I would say that 97-99% of content plays great through the Serviio connection. The WL800 has a funny profile, where it will play lots of files natively from a USB, but only plays MPEG through the DLNA profile.
However, despite the microserver only having a slowish (and electronically thrifty) processor nearly everything encodes fine. I occasionally have a little distortion when playing HD video, but quite often after a couple of minutes then enough is cached so that stops.
The one thing is that the rewind functionality does not always work well. On some titles it is fine, and you can skip back a bit, but on others it will seem to rewind but then start playback from where you were. I have not gotten round to checking which formats these are however!
We also occasionally connect with an Xbox 360 and laptops, and they seem to work better than the TV (due to the less transcoding I think).
Anyway, thanks for the project and keep up the good work!
Profile included for reference:
<Profile id="13" name="Toshiba REGZA" extendsProfileId="1">
<Transcoding>
<!-- Some models might play h264 in mpegts - in that case the below can be uncommented -->
<!--Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3">
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" />
</Video-->
<Video targetContainer="mpeg" targetACodec="ac3" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
<Matches container="mp4" />
<Matches container="avi" />
<Matches container="mpegts" />
<Matches container="mpegvideo" />
<Matches container="asf" />
<Matches container="ogg" />
<Matches container="flv" />
<Matches container="3gp" />
<Matches container="rm" />
<Matches container="matroska" />
<!-- if audio different to ac3, must be transcoded -->
<Matches container="mpeg" aCodec="aac" />
<Matches container="mpeg" aCodec="mp3" />
<Matches container="mpeg" aCodec="dca" />
<Matches container="mpeg" aCodec="dts-hd" />
</Video>
<Audio targetContainer="mp3">
<Matches container="mp4" />
<Matches container="flac" />
<Matches container="ogg" />
<Matches container="asf" />
<Matches container="mp2" />
<Matches container="wavpack" />
<Matches container="mpc" />
<Matches container="ape" />
</Audio>
</Transcoding>
<OnlineTranscoding>
<Video targetContainer="mpeg" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3">
<Matches container="mp4" />
<Matches container="flv" />
</Video>
</OnlineTranscoding>
<HardSubsTranscoding>
<Video targetContainer="mpeg" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" />
</HardSubsTranscoding>
</Profile>