Samsung BD-C6800 Blu-ray Player Profile

I'm new to Serviio, so forgive me if I seem a little naive here. My Samsung BD-C6800 Blu-ray player is listed as "Unrecognized device" with the "Generic DLNA profile". As a result, I'm obviously unable to accomplish any transcoding. Is there a profile available for this device? I'm not really up for getting into the weeds and trying to author one on my own... Thanks.

- John

[Cerberus]

were you see the generic profile in console click the little arrow next to it and select the samsung C/D profile

How obvious. How embarrassing. Many thanks!

- John

[Cerberus]

your welcome

I was able to manually set the profile per your advice. Although the correct profile is now listed, I still don't get any transcoding results.

On the recommendation from jhb50, I followed your instructions at viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19. Device Spy doesn't see my device (Samsung BC-C6800 Blu-ray player). Info for it is listed at the DLNA Product Search, but I'm at a loss as to what to do with the results.

I'd really like to get transcoding operational, rather than having to re-render half the stuff I download in order to play it. And if I can provide info to further improve Serviio in the process, so much the better.

- John

[zip]

what file exactly you cannot play? Does your player have static IP address so that it keeps the selected profile?

I cannot play .mkv files. I have to first convert them to .avi. My player does, indeed, have a static IP address. Also, I made certain that it was powered up and connected to Serviio when searching for it with Device Spy.

[zip]

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1123

FFmpeg Output:
==============

C:\Users\John\Desktop\fpwl>ffmpeg.exe -i fpwl.mkv
ffmpeg version N-31480-g8bc3a48, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jul 14 2011 23:37:53 with gcc 4.4.2
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffs
erver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --extra-libs='
-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enab
le-pthreads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --pkg-config=pkg-co
nfig
libavutil 51. 11. 0 / 51. 11. 0
libavcodec 53. 8. 0 / 53. 8. 0
libavformat 53. 6. 0 / 53. 6. 0
libavdevice 53. 2. 0 / 53. 2. 0
libavfilter 2. 25. 0 / 2. 25. 0
libswscale 2. 0. 0 / 2. 0. 0
[matroska,webm @ 003a8bc0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccur
ate

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 47.95 (500000
0/104271) -> 23.98 (24000/1001)
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'fpwl.mkv':
Duration: 01:32:39.45, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 384 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x544 [PAR 1:1 DAR 40:17],
23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 384 kb/s (default)
At least one output file must be specified


MediaInfo Output:
=================

General
Unique ID : 208675291434080178761998504658311906953 (0x9CFD6634C46402DABF5D817C0CC50689)
Complete name : C:\Users\John\Desktop\fpwl\FPWL.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 1.93 GiB
Duration : 1h 32mn
Overall bit rate : 2 980 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2011-01-25 18:35:54
Writing application : mkvmerge v4.4.0 ('Die Wiederkehr') built on Oct 31 2010 21:52:48
Writing library : libebml v1.0.0 + libmatroska v1.0.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 32mn
Bit rate : 2 599 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 544 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 2.35:1
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.156
Stream size : 1.64 GiB (85%)
Writing library : x264 core 88 r1471 1144615
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-1:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.15 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=6 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=0 / mbaff=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / wpredb=1 / wpredp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=2599 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=50000 / vbv_bufsize=50000 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Language : English
Default : No
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : A_AC3
Duration : 1h 32mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 254 MiB (13%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

[zip]

It's got Header stripping (header compression). You'll have to remux the file using a tool (search the forum)

Thanks, zip. mkvmerge did the trick. It's a slow day when you don't learn something.

So am I correct in concluding that my problem had nothing to do with transcoding, but rather with an incompatibility between the Matroska option used in my original file (header stripping) and the format required by my player (no header compression)? If so, I'll be interested to see whether transcoding is actually working, if and when my need for it arises.

[zip]

you are right. Transcoding might fix it, I'm not even sure. But it's a setting of the (mkv) container so hopefully remuxing it into mpegts should get rid of the problem.