Serviio

Hi -

So I am just dangerous enough at coding to break things, and I seem to have run into an issue with my most recent Serviio profile. For a little histroy, I was using an older profile that seemed to work very well with pretty much any file I threw at it (video files). It would choke up occasionally with very high quality, but it seemed to work well for any bittorrent download I tried.

Here was that profile


When a more recent version of Serviio came out I was happy to see that it now had my Sony BDP profile included. However, upon testing it now will not play many of the video files that used to work. These are mainly bittorrent files and home movies. I realize my older profile was not really correct, but I did seem to have better results with it. The new profile is:




I should mention that I a using a USA version of the Sony Bravia bluray player. Any assistance in improving my profile to would be great.

Ok - thanks to those who pointed me to a previous post. That did help with many files but not all of them.

Here is my new profile


This is much improved, but I am still getting a error that says some files are corrupt or not supported.
For example I tried to play "UP" and here is the output from FFmpeg if I did it correctly



Another video file example




Both these files play fine on my computer and on the VLC player on my iPad.

try changing this line



to

Thanks for the response. That doesn't seem to have worked. I did shut down Serviio and restart it afterward as well.

My profile currently reads

Could you confirm that these files work fine with your initial profile (on first post)?
- Up_Pixar.avi
- Predators[2010]DvDrip[Eng]-FXG.avi : "Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected" could be the reason.

Try with different mime-type:
1: <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/mpeg" >AVI</MediaFormatProfile>
2: <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/mp4" >AVI</MediaFormatProfile>
3: <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx" >AVI</MediaFormatProfile>

Can you provide an output of these files using the program MediaInfo?

The US Sony BluRay players (x70 series) do not support Xvid or Divx encoded files. These files will need to be transcoded to Mpeg2.

Ok, the files do seem to be Xvid. How do I edit my profile to tell it to transcode Xvid files?

OK, it is not an Xvid issue because many other Xvids seem to be working. I will go through all the files that are not working and see if I can figure out a commonality.