Help With Set-up

Hi, I need some help,

Config: iMac 24 running OS X 10.6.8, Servio 0.6.0.1, Elgato EyeTV 3.5; Sony Bravia KDL-46HX803, Sony BD Player BDP-S470.

I want to stream recordings made with Elgato EyeTV to my TV. I've 'pointed' Serviio to the 'EyeTV Archive' folder which holds around 15 video files (and selected just the video checkbox in the console). The server has been running on the iMac for a couple of days now. [I've also pointed it to my iTunes and iPhoto libraries but these work perfectly on the TV so not an issue].

On the Status menu I can see the device name KDL-46HX803 with the profile Sony Bravia TV and a green button.
I can also see device name Sony BD Player with the profile Sony BD Player and a yellow button. All other settings I've left at default.

Moving to the TV, I can find the Serviio server in the video menu, I can see all of the videos in Folder/EyeTV Archive and they are named correctly, I can select one of the videos which then shows up as something like "00000000145c8690.mpg Sat 29 Oct 2011 (0H 33M") with mpeg2 in the grey box. Press play and at this point the spinner appears in the top right of the screen, filename top left and the green play button bottom left. The spinner spins for a while then the screen goes black and that's it.

Trying the Blueray, all very similar but this time the filename is "00000000145c8690.mpg" with M2T6 in the grey box. Press play and the spinner spins indefinitely and then it just hangs.

I bought the TV November 2010 so tried the Bravia TV 2011 profile but it still behaves the same.

If anyone has a similar set-up working I'd love to know how.

Thanks . . . Bob.

[Cerberus]

please provide FFmpeg -i and mediainfo reports for the file that will not play.

Hi and thanks for coming back.

As far as my current understanding goes you might as well be speaking Swahili but I'll go away and find out how I can do what you ask.

Bob.

Please can you let me know what a "gfiole" is. I can't find any reference to this term.

Thanks.

[Illico]

Could you provide "ffmpeg -i" and MediaInfo result of this file ? (see signature links)

OK, here's what I have from Terminal:

Last login: Tue Nov 29 17:54:42 on ttys000
Bob-Jeannettes-iMac-24:~ bobandjeannette$ cd /Applications/Serviio.app/Contents/MacOS
Bob-Jeannettes-iMac-24:MacOS bobandjeannette$ ./ffmpeg -i /Users/bobandjeannette/Documents/EyeTV\ Archive/Finding\ Neverland\ -\ 2004,\ Drama.eyetv
ffmpeg version 0.8.git, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Aug 14 2011 22:07:26 with gcc 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --bindir=/tmp/ffmpeg --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --enable-pthreads --disable-mmx --extra-ldflags=-L/tmp/static/lib --extra-cflags=-I/tmp/static/include --extra-libs=-lpolarssl
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
/Users/bobandjeannette/Documents/EyeTV Archive/Finding Neverland - 2004, Drama.eyetv: Operation not permitted
Bob-Jeannettes-iMac-24:MacOS bobandjeannette$


For MediaInfo I'm not sure what I need to send you. Hoping the attached screenshot is what you need.

[Cerberus]

your ffmpeg command is incorrect as it doesnt lead to an actual video file and requires " " around the url.

[Illico]

Also, please select the "text" output format for MediaInfo and post result here, thanks.

Coincidentally I took delivery of a Humax PVR yesterday. This also has a network connection / DLNA. I gave it a try and it plays all the EyeTV videos via serviio perfectly, straight out of the box. Having got the functionality I was after I'm going to save some time and abandon the Bravia route for the time being.

Thanks for your help.

Bob.

[Illico]

Coincidentally I took delivery of a Humax PVR yesterday. This also has a network connection / DLNA. I gave it a try and it plays all the EyeTV videos via serviio perfectly, straight out of the box.

Cool, I suppose that the "Generic profile" is used for Humax.

Having got the functionality I was after I'm going to save some time and abandon the Bravia route for the time being.

OK, that should be fine to have the detailed format information about your EyeTV files?
Please could you provide ffmpeg -i "<file path>", and MediaInfo result in text format ?