Serviio

PLEASE HELP

im new to this and its doing my head in. i understand i have to change the transcoding profile in order to play .avi files on my samsung ht-c5900

i have managed to get .flv and mpeg4 H264 files to work but i want to set it up so my .avi files can open.

1. i dont have a clue how to change the profile or even where the profile.xml file is stored on my mac

2. i have found two different example of what to add once i have found this file

exapmle 1

<Profile id="5" name="Samsung WiselinkPro (A-series)" extendsProfileId="2">
<MediaFormatProfiles>
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/x-divx"&ltAVI</MediaFormatProfile>
</MediaFormatProfiles>
<Transcoding>
<Video targetContainer="mpeg" targetACodec="ac3" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
<Matches container="matroska" />
<Matches container="mp4" />
<Matches container="asf" />
</Video>
</Transcoding>
"</Profile>

example 2

Profile id="7" name="Samsung TV / player (C-series)" extendsProfileId="2">
      <Transcoding>
         <!-- transcode H264 MP4 files with LPCM audio -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3">
            <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" aCodec="pcm_s16le" />
         </Video>

         <!-- transcode MKV with MPEG2 video, remux into mpeg2ts -->
         <!-- transcode AVI with AVC video -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" targetVCodec="mpeg2video">
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="mpeg2video" />
                                <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" />
            <Matches container="avi" vCodec="h264" />
         </Video>
      </Transcoding>
   </Profile>


which one of these should i use?

your help would be much appreciated.

Whichever, you can even create a new one. But the C series profile should play all files, incl. AVI. You should change the C series profile (7) if you want as little changes as possible.

ok

another dumb question, what is " C series profile (7) " and how do i change to that?

by the way, do you know where the profile files are on a mac? i was looking in mac HD/Library/Application Support but couldnt even see a Serviio folder in there

First of all, as I said, you should be able to play AVIs. Is it just 1 file you cannot play or all AVIs?

Look here and provide detail of the file: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1123

The profiles in your post are outdated and will not work anyway. But for your information, the profiles.xml file is inside Serviio.app folder (the actual application).

thanks

i have found the profile.xml.

all .avi i have dont run and i get a "not supported video codec" message from my player.

i have located the ffmpeg file and when i open it does its thing but then i cant key in any command

you have to execute ffmpeg in Terminal window

The current samsung profile work right out of the box no editing of profile.xml is required if you do find an oddball file that does not play please provide details of the file ( link in my signiture ) so that we can find out exactly why its not working.