Transcoding h265 onto Sony BDP-S470
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Former Sony Media Server user here, migrated to Serviio once I started digging into the technical aspects a bit more and now I'm keen to update my profile to handle h265 media!
I've been having some trouble getting h265 media files to transcode onto my device without forcing transcoding of all files, needless to say a less than optimal solution, but the answer came to me while writing this post so I thought I'd share my experience.
Initially I just added the bolded line below to the "unsupported" part of the the "bdp2010" profile.
However, this didn't work and I suspected that my test file either
Turns out it was the latter, specifically the forced remuxing of matroska to mpeg-ts to fix stutter after seeking on my device.
Since the software matches against the first possible hit, and the remuxing bits being at the top of the transcoding profile, I went back to the original profile and simply added the following at the very top of the transcoding profile.
In short nothing too fancy and only really suitable for my personal use but as it was a new experience to me, and a positive one at that, I thought I'd share it in case it helps someone else out there.![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
Many thanks for an awesome software package!
I've been having some trouble getting h265 media files to transcode onto my device without forcing transcoding of all files, needless to say a less than optimal solution, but the answer came to me while writing this post so I thought I'd share my experience.
Initially I just added the bolded line below to the "unsupported" part of the the "bdp2010" profile.
...
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" maxVBitrate="17000" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="320" forceVTranscoding="true" forceInheritance="true">
<Matches container="asf" />
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h265" />
...
However, this didn't work and I suspected that my test file either
- didn't correctly identify as h265 or
- some existing target in the profile were interfering with my addition.
Turns out it was the latter, specifically the forced remuxing of matroska to mpeg-ts to fix stutter after seeking on my device.
Since the software matches against the first possible hit, and the remuxing bits being at the top of the transcoding profile, I went back to the original profile and simply added the following at the very top of the transcoding profile.
<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" >
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h265" />
In short nothing too fancy and only really suitable for my personal use but as it was a new experience to me, and a positive one at that, I thought I'd share it in case it helps someone else out there.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
Many thanks for an awesome software package!