Samsung D8000 TV stops playing ball

I'm tempted to write in all capitals.

I thought I should double-check where I was with the Serviio installation, so I tried to play the two test files again.
The Samsung has now stopped playing all my videos - in whatever format! Serviio's directory structure and icons are still there.

The TV is on a UPS, and I now guess the software load is maintained in RAM when the TV is switched off with the remote, so I pulled the plug, left it off for some minutes and restarted. The bloody pile of junk now plays the lower-resolution files once again, but not the HD ones in EyeTV format, the base problem for me. To be sure, I have re-installed Serviio and I've rebuilt my libraries.

This Samsung so called "Smart TV" has the worst-designed interface and remote imaginable, yet none of the reviewers seems to notice. The picture is pretty good though, so I suppose this is progress.

Please let me know how I can contribute, as the damn thing continues to waste quite a bit of yours and my time.

Mike

[zip]

can you try with Samsung's All Share Manager?

Well that wasn't much fun. I use Macs. In short, it doesn't work either. The Samsung specs say that the TV doesn't play mpgs, so no surprise that Allshare won't play them locally or on the TV. So neither of the samples played, even locally. Allshare is crap software spawns unnamed processes that lock files after the parent process is closed, so you have to restart to edit a filename in its directories. I'm beginning to think that anything software+Samsung is a thing to AVOID.


Mike

[zip]

i agree, but their server is basically the referential implementation of what the tv can play (natively)

Elgato tell me that EyeTV records the programmes in the broadcaster's native format. So there seem to be three alternatives: decode-on-the-fly, as you are doing; export into another format, or use the TV as a display for a media centre.

Given the hopeless implementation of DNLA on the Samsung - impossible to do more than start/stop and pause a film ( well you can spend many minutes trying to trick the system into stepping forward) - it looks as if any user with the cash will have to opt for the last option - unless you can pull the rabbit out of the hat.


I still don't understand why your decoding-on-the-fly worked previously.


Mike

[jhb50]

As a matter of interest, I downloaded your file and renamed the ts .mpg snippet to .ts and demuxed it using tsmuxer into its avc, ac3 and mp2 streams and then remuxed back into a .ts container again with tsmuxer.

This transcodes and plays fine on the Samsung D series, and if I transcode it with the same ffmpeg command as above it issues error messages as below but does not fail.

Greater minds than mine will have to figure this out!

  Code:

C:\Users\John>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Serviio\bin\\..\lib/ffmpeg.exe" -i "D:\azu
reus active downloads\0000000010aada6c.remux.ts" -y -vcodec copy -vbsf h264_mp4t
oannexb -copyts -acodec ac3 -ab 192k -ac 2 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -sn -f mpegts "C:\W
indows\Temp\Serviio\Serviio\transcoding-temp-13913-MPEG2TS.stf"
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
[h264 @ 012ef1c0] mmco: unref short failure
    Last message repeated 1 times
Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 50.00 (50/1)
-> 25.00 (50/2)
    Last message repeated 1 times
Input #0, mpegts, from 'D:\azureus active downloads\0000000010aada6c.remux.ts':
  Duration: 00:00:16.79, start: 599.960011, bitrate: 10261 kb/s
  Program 1
    Stream #0.0[0x1011]: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1440x1080 [PAR 4:3 DAR 16:
9], 50 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
    Stream #0.1[0x1100]: Audio: mp2, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 256 kb/s
    Stream #0.2[0x1101]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
[ac3 @ 013ab7c0] channel_layout not specified
[ac3 @ 013ab7c0] No channel layout specified. The encoder will guess the layout,
 but it might be incorrect.
[mpegts @ 013aae80] muxrate VBR, pcr every 2 pkts, sdt every 200, pat/pmt every
40 pkts
Output #0, mpegts, to 'C:\Windows\Temp\Serviio\Serviio\transcoding-temp-13913-MP
EG2TS.stf':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : Lavf53.6.0
    Stream #0.0: Video: [27][0][0][0] / 0x001B, yuv420p, 1440x1080 [PAR 4:3 DAR
16:9], q=2-31, 90k tbn, 25 tbc
    Stream #0.1: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
  Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
.....
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
frame=  839 fps= 61 q=-1.0 size=   20592kB time=00:00:16.00 bitrate=10543.3kbits
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
[mp2 @ 003ffa20] incomplete frame
Error while decoding stream #0.1
frame=  840 fps= 61 q=-1.0 Lsize=   21421kB time=00:00:16.03 bitrate=10945.8kbit
s/s
video:19439kB audio:376kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 8.108871%h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
frame=  839 fps= 61 q=-1.0 size=   20592kB time=00:00:16.00 bitrate=10543.3kbits
h264_mp4toannexb failed for stream 0, codec copy: Invalid argument
[mp2 @ 003ffa20] incomplete frame
Error while decoding stream #0.1
frame=  840 fps= 61 q=-1.0 Lsize=   21421kB time=00:00:16.03 bitrate=10945.8kbit
s/s
video:19439kB audio:376kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead 8.108871%



Thanks. Its beyond me too.

I just checked the log on the supposedly clean installation referred to previously, and I see the following error repeatedly in the attached logfile after a restart (edited to remove media references) :

2011-11-05 11:18:46,790 INFO [RendererExpirationChecker] Starting RendererExpirationChecker
2011-11-05 11:18:46,792 ERROR [DiscoverySSDPMessageListener] Cannot open multicast socket,will try again
java.net.BindException: Address already in use

Mike

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