Serviio

Ok so I'm completely new to this and a little confused... I also know you guys are gonna need more information that I am going to provide, but I just don't know where to find it.

Basically my problem is this it seems like any file over 2GB, or any MKV file is very either very choppy and stuttering OR my video is very blocky.

I'm using windows 7 on my PC, serviio is set up running through my samsung blu ray BD c6500, I also have a Samsung TV.

I have serviio setup under the samsung c series profile and in trans coding options I told it to use all 4 cores.

I'm assuming the files are to big either my computer or blu ray player is getting bogged down, but I really don't know. So what information do I need to get you guys to help me figure this out?

post ffmpeg -i <file> for one of the files you haveproblems with.

Also, what is your network, wireless or wired?

My network is wireless, all of it.

Here it is for devil this one gets choppy ~45 seconds in
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Tarry>cd "\Program Files\Serviio\lib

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg/exe -i "N:\Videos\Devil.mkv
FFmpeg version SVN-r23012, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 3 2010 19:05:24 with gcc 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffs
erver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-w32threads --extra-ldf
lags=-L/static/lib --extra-cflags=-I/static/include
libavutil 50.15. 0 / 50.15. 0
libavcodec 52.66. 0 / 52.66. 0
libavformat 52.62. 0 / 52.62. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libswscale 0.10. 0 / 0.10. 0
Unable to find a suitable output format for '/exe'



Here it is for Star Wars this one I get lots of artifacts on the screen and it is blocky
C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg/exe -i "N:\Videos\star wars episode iv a new
hope.mkv
FFmpeg version SVN-r23012, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 3 2010 19:05:24 with gcc 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffs
erver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-w32threads --extra-ldf
lags=-L/static/lib --extra-cflags=-I/static/include
libavutil 50.15. 0 / 50.15. 0
libavcodec 52.66. 0 / 52.66. 0
libavformat 52.62. 0 / 52.62. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libswscale 0.10. 0 / 0.10. 0
Unable to find a suitable output format for '/exe'

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>

Thanks for the help!

the output is not correct, you're missing quotes behind the file names.

Shuld be:

bah told ya i was new at this... anyway here ya go


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

This one is again is the one that is choppy and stutters

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg.exe -i "n:\videos\devil.mkv"
FFmpeg version SVN-r23012, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 3 2010 19:05:24 with gcc 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffs
erver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-w32threads --extra-ldf
lags=-L/static/lib --extra-cflags=-I/static/include
libavutil 50.15. 0 / 50.15. 0
libavcodec 52.66. 0 / 52.66. 0
libavformat 52.62. 0 / 52.62. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libswscale 0.10. 0 / 0.10. 0
[matroska @ 012cba00]MAX_READ_SIZE:5000000 reached
[matroska @ 012cba00]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 47.95 (5994/1
25) -> 23.98 (5994/250)
Input #0, matroska, from 'n:\videos\devil.mkv':
Duration: 01:20:28.60, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0.0: Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x800 [PAR 1:1 DAR 12:5], 23.98 tbr, 1
k tbn, 47.95 tbc
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: dca, 48000 Hz, 6 channels, s16
Stream #0.2(eng): Subtitle: 0x0000
Stream #0.3(fre): Subtitle: 0x0000
At least one output file must be specified

this one has all the artifacts to it

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg.exe -i "n:\videos\star wars episode iv a new
hope.mkv"
FFmpeg version SVN-r23012, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 3 2010 19:05:24 with gcc 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffs
erver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-w32threads --extra-ldf
lags=-L/static/lib --extra-cflags=-I/static/include
libavutil 50.15. 0 / 50.15. 0
libavcodec 52.66. 0 / 52.66. 0
libavformat 52.62. 0 / 52.62. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libswscale 0.10. 0 / 0.10. 0
[matroska @ 0102ba20]max_analyze_duration reached
[matroska @ 0102ba20]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate

Seems stream 1 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 50.00 (50/1)
-> 500.00 (500/1)
Input #0, matroska, from 'n:\videos\star wars episode iv a new hope.mkv':
Duration: 01:59:34.84, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 384 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Subtitle: 0x0000
Stream #0.1(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1920x816, PAR 1:1 DAR 40:17, 25 fps,
500 tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc
Stream #0.2(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 384 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>


thanks again

None of those is transcoded when using the C series profile, so it's weird.

so should I change the profile, or what can I do to convert those files to another format and downgrade them a bit?

are you on wireless or wired network?

everythings wireless and wired is not going to be an option

might be that the HD mkv file is just too much for your wireless network to stream smoothly. You could try to connect with wires (temporarily) to try if that's the case.

yeah thats what i was afraid of. unfortunately wired is not an option... so my followup would be does anyone have a good recommendation for taking the mkv and downgrading and possibly making it a different format?