Serviio

Hi

Firstly - Serviio is great - far better than my fall back option of Windows Media Center!

However, I have a problem with certain file types that work marginally better in WMC.
DVR-MS - when I try to view these files, the video is barely watch-able, being very 'jerky' and slightly pixelated. Gives the impression the PC is struggling to transcode at a suitable rate, but I don't think CPU is the issue.
MP4 - these files just send the TV crazy. Sometimes it's like they are on permanent fast forward and on occasion I've had to switch the TV off to recover it!

Everything else works perfectly though. I can, for example transcode an HD quality file, eg an FLV or MPG without issue.

Any ideas - I'm pretty new to this but if you let me know what to do/post I will - really appreciate any help you can give!

Thanks

Possibly a better question for me to ask might be: if I am using handbrake to create my video files - eg from DVD - what format is it best to save in so that Serviio can transcode them for my TV? I had used mp4 as I could view these on an iPad, but I am more likely to watch them on the TV if it worked?
Thanks!

You tv will have very limited codec support as its a 2009 model. I think it does little more than mpeg2 so pretty much anything will need to be transcoded and thus you'll need a cpu to keep up.

IMO you'd be better of getting a cheap media player / bluray player than can play files natively without transcoding. You can still use Serviio if networked but your tv is a very limiting factor.

I'd love to buy a new tv....

One of the real benefits of Serviio is that it allows me to play all the formats my tv doesn't support. I thought that as my PC quite happily transcodes HD quality flash files to it (a format it definitely doesn't support), it should be able to easily cope with dvr-ms and mp4 of lesser quality as (I believe) these are fairly similar to MPEG in structure? Yet, somewhere it's not working too well?

MPEGTS / H264 / AC3 with bitrate under 15Mbps is probably the best format for Sony Bravia series.
Becarefull with h264 encoding setting, 4 reframes with High profile and level = 4.0

Thanks for this... will give it a try.

Do you know if anything has changed in Serviio - I was just thinking that when I originally installed it, I am 99% sure it played my entire collection of movies on my TV fine, with no jerky picture etc - it's why I used it instead of Media Center on the PC. I didn't watch anything for a while and mainly used Serviio for music, but now I'm finding a lot of my movies won't play properly - dvr-ms being the worst. Suspecting that my PC had just got slow, I've reinstalled Windows from scratch but Serviio is still the same I don't think that the PC isn't powerful enough - as I said earlier it's happily transcoding HD quality FLV files into a format my TV can cope with, so I'm thinking it must be transcoding the other files into a format the TV isn't liking so much? Or is it reducing the frame rate too much, maybe (does it do this?)

Any ideas?

Be sure that there were no other process (library refresh) during movie transcoding.