Serviio

I was trying to watch a video last night that is a 720p mkv. In the past my computer seemed to transcode them without issue, but last night it kept having to buffer. I was looking at my processor usage, and it doesn't seem to be maxing out even one core (according to the performance tab), but under processes, it lists ffmpeg.exe as 49-50%. Now if I remember right from beta testing the transcoding, the WMV support in ffmpeg doesn't support multiple cores, but why would the performance tab not be showing one core being maxed out?

Anyway, that isn't the real reason I am posting. I also have 1080p videos on here, but they are pretty much impossible to transcode with only one core on my computer. Is there a way to limit the resolution and/or bitrate, so that I would be able to watch these videos? Or is there any other format that the xbox supports for streaming that doesn't require the whole video file to be complete that would be able to use more cores? From what I can tell on this post it seems that the xbox can read m2tsc containers, is this at all a possibility for transcoding (it seemed the like the time to convert was extremely low).

Thanks again for all your hard work. This program is the only thing I use to watch things on my tv as I don't have cable or satellite hooked up.

Oh, and my computer is a AMD Athlon64 X2 6400+ (runs at 3.2GHz) with 4GB of DDR2 800 running Windows 7 x64 Ultimate.

You could try changing transcoding config to remux mkv with h264 and ac3 into mpegts.

So, would add something like this?


and then have the original one be after that one with this?



I am assuming it works its way down to until a condition matches, then it doesn't continue on... is that right? Would I need to remove the mpegts from the second video portion to prevent matches?

Yes, this should be right. You can check in the logs (detailed) to see what format it's going to be delivered in.

I tried this today, and all my mkv's disappeared. I am thinking I need to add an entry into the MediaFormatProfiles section under the xbox section. The only problem... I can't figure out what to put there.

The log doesn't seem to give any info either.


I would appreciate any help you are able to provide.

Thanks again
Jeremy

you have to turn on detailed logging. and then browse to the folder that includes the MKV's

you have to turn on detailed logging. and then browse to the folder that includes the MKV's

OK, I might've done this completely wrong, but let's see. So I turned on detailed logging and restarted the server. Once I got to the folder I had a bunch of items like this in the log (still not showing up on the xbox)



So, then I noticed that there was "AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3_ISO" at the end of each episode, so I found the line that pertains to that in the do not edit section, copied it, and placed it in the xbox section and restarted. The same issues happen (the above log file is from the run with the "AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3_ISO" listed in the MediaFormatProfile section). Here is the xbox 360 section of my config.



I even tried changing the line to read (changing it from video/mpeg to video/mpegts).



So far, it still doesn't show up on the xbox.

Of course I notice this after I posted the first message, but I am wondering if this line in the config could be the culprit from the items not showing up



I tried commenting it out, and replacing it with the generic one, but both of them show "No Videos found" right after selecting serviio from the Source Selection screen. I just have no idea where I can go to change what is defined in here (or whether I can even do it). This seems to make sense, just because the videos are being recognized, but if a filter is preventing them from showing up...

Any suggestions?

AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3_ISO means that the (transcoded) file is h264/ac3 in mpegts - which is correct. So your transcoding config is correct. you don't have to add anything into mediafileformats, unless you want to change mime-type... which is video/mpeg (and should be ok).

BTW, in your post it says:



So it seems you can only play it through WMC. M2TS is also not mentioned here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/xboxteam/archiv ... k-faq.aspx

Crap, I never noticed that part. Probably would've saved me a ton of time.

So I guess that brings me back to my original thought. Is there a way to limit the bitrate and/or resolution of the transcoded files?

there is for the bitrate (see transcoding doc)