Changing frame rate on the fly?
Posted: Sun Sep 29, 2013 2:24 amHello All,
I have a Phillips NetTV, 40PFL4907/F7, using Linux (Slackware 14 x64) as my serviio server. Was able to get _most_ video working using the profile documented here, albeit with the same limitation (no pause, but functional ff/rw) noted in that thread. For reasons unknown, videos with a frame rate of 25fps do not display properly on the TV. It's either a black screen or the video shows up in one corner of the display.
Video that doesn't display properly or at all (ffmpeg -i):
Two videos that display properly, non 25fps:
This is most probably a limitation of this TV, and I've discovered that If I manually convert the video beforehand using ffmpeg -r 24000/1001 then I can play it without issue.
Hence my question, is it possible to get serviio to do this on the fly, as the videos are requested, or do I have to manually convert every video that I have with a frame rate of 25? I did not see any frame rate options in the documentation for profiles.xml.
Bonus question: Did anyone ever figure out the pause issue with the Phillips TVs?
I have a Phillips NetTV, 40PFL4907/F7, using Linux (Slackware 14 x64) as my serviio server. Was able to get _most_ video working using the profile documented here, albeit with the same limitation (no pause, but functional ff/rw) noted in that thread. For reasons unknown, videos with a frame rate of 25fps do not display properly on the TV. It's either a black screen or the video shows up in one corner of the display.
Video that doesn't display properly or at all (ffmpeg -i):
Stream #0:0[0x100]: Video: mpeg2video (Main) ([2][0][0][0] / 0x0002), yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
Two videos that display properly, non 25fps:
Stream #0:0[0x100]: Video: mpeg2video (Main) ([2][0][0][0] / 0x0002), yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 90k tbn, 59.94 tbc
Stream #0:0[0x100]: Video: mpeg2video (Main) ([2][0][0][0] / 0x0002), yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 90k tbn, 47.95 tbc
This is most probably a limitation of this TV, and I've discovered that If I manually convert the video beforehand using ffmpeg -r 24000/1001 then I can play it without issue.
Hence my question, is it possible to get serviio to do this on the fly, as the videos are requested, or do I have to manually convert every video that I have with a frame rate of 25? I did not see any frame rate options in the documentation for profiles.xml.
Bonus question: Did anyone ever figure out the pause issue with the Phillips TVs?