Help wanted for SMP-N100 and live streaming

What bothers me is that the mpeg, sky news, you can watch it find on the smp-n100, and then when you run it with ffmpeg -i it doesn't matter if it has quotes or not...

[serviio-buddy]

Yeah, it doesn't make sense. And why only M2TS live streams don't work is very frustrating. I've asked another user on serviio.org to look into this since they have a lot of knowledge about the profiles.xml stuff also. Maybe it has to do with transcoding.

Have you tried an older version of serviio, maybe before they combined the profiles of the BD player and the SMP?

[serviio-buddy]

No, just have the newest 0.6.2

It may have something to do with the transcoding in the profiles.xml file, because when I changed the profile of SMP-N100 to generic, it didn't even see any M2TS files on the SMP-N100 listing.

This is something that happens here too, but I use the Sony BDP-S373. MPEG-streams work all the time, but M2TS only seldom. When I finally have a working stream, it's impossible to access the same stream a few minutes later: the Sony stops working and reboots after a few minutes (what happens when I access most of the M2TS streams).

That is precisly the same problem i have with my SMP-N100

[serviio-buddy]

I changed Sony SMP-N100 profile in the Serviio Console to 5 other profiles hoping the M2TS live streams would play:

Generic DLNA profile
Playstation 3
Sony Bravia TV (2009)
Sony Bravia TV (2010)
Sony Bravia TV (2011)

Unfortunately, when I tried the Sony SMP-N100 with any of these profiles entered from Serviio Console, it never showed any M2TS live streams listings in the online folder.

So, only the Sony BD Player / SMP profile actually shows the M2TS live stream listings in the online folder. As usual, when I chose one to play, it failed about 90% of the time.

I got the same result

[serviio-buddy]

Does anyone have any other ideas we could try on this frustrating problem?

Problem: Sony SMP-N100 only plays M2TS live streams intermittently or about only 10% of the time. Every other attempt results in rebooting the Sony SMP-N100.

I think it might have something to do with the profiles.xml file, but not really sure.

I've now turned on detailed logging again and will try to pin down exactly what is going on in the log when this problem happens.
I turned on detailed logging before but couldn't see any errors at that time.

If anyone has good knowledge of working with these profiles, we would appreciate your help in resolving this.

Thanks.

If you press the display on button on the remote control when you get the screen with the channel's name, then you can see the speed at which the video is being stream.

Generally what I've found is anything above 4.0Mbps locks up, also if you get the audio, top left part, on Mbps, it also lock up.

Here is the section of the debug log that has the error:

[VideoDeliveryEngine] Found Format profile for transcoded file rtmp://s7.webport.tv/live/z050227.stream pageUrl=http://www.tvsector.com/ swfVfy=0 live=1: AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3_ISO
2012-03-10 17:53:24,250 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Sending HEAD response back
2012-03-10 17:53:24,250 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] HTTP/1.1 200 OK, headers = [[Content-Type: video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts,Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 22:53:24 GMT,Server: Windows XP, UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50, Serviio/0.6.2,Cache-control: no-cache,contentFeatures.dlna.org: DLNA.ORG_PN=MPEG_TS_SD_NA;DLNA.ORG_OP=00;DLNA.ORG_CI=1;DLNA.ORG_FLAGS=8D500000000000000000000000000000,transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming]]
2012-03-10 17:53:24,250 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] GET /resource/1000000000150006/MEDIA_ITEM/AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3_ISO*1 HTTP/1.1, headers = [Host: 10.0.0.3:8895,Accept: */*,getcontentFeatures.dlna.org: 1,X-AV-Physical-Unit-Info: pa="Media Player",X-AV-Client-Info: av=5.0; cn="Sony Corporation"; mn="Media Player"; mv="2.0"]]
2012-03-10 17:53:24,250 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 10.0.0.11
2012-03-10 17:53:24,250 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Resource request accepted. Using client 'IPAddress=/10.0.0.11, Profile=Sony BD Player / SMP'
2012-03-10 17:53:24,250 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Request for resource 1000000000150006 and type 'MEDIA_ITEM' received
2012-03-10 17:53:24,250 DEBUG [MediaResourceRetrievalStrategy] Getting information about media item 1000000000150006 (online)
2012-03-10 17:53:24,250 DEBUG [OnlineRepositoryDAOImpl] Reading an OnlineRepository (id = 15)
2012-03-10 17:53:24,250 DEBUG [OnlineRepositoryDAOImpl] Reading an OnlineRepository (id = 15)
2012-03-10 17:53:24,250 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering item '1000000000150006' for client 'IPAddress=/10.0.0.11, Profile=Sony BD Player / SMP'
2012-03-10 17:53:24,250 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering file 'rtmp://s7.webport.tv/live/z050227.stream pageUrl=http://www.tvsector.com/ swfVfy=0 live=1' using transcoding
2012-03-10 17:53:24,250 DEBUG [AbstractTranscodingDeliveryEngine] No suitable transcoding job exists yet, start one for client 'IPAddress=/10.0.0.11, Profile=Sony BD Player / SMP'
2012-03-10 17:53:24,265 DEBUG [FFMPEGWrapper] Invoking FFmpeg to transcode video file: rtmp://s7.webport.tv/live/z050227.stream pageUrl=http://www.tvsector.com/ swfVfy=0 live=1
2012-03-10 17:53:24,265 DEBUG [ProcessExecutor] Starting C:\Program Files\Serviio\bin\\..\lib/ffmpeg.exe -i rtmp://s7.webport.tv/live/z050227.stream pageUrl=http://www.tvsector.com/ swfVfy=0 live=1 -y -async 1 -vcodec copy -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -copyts -acodec ac3 -ab 384k -ac 2 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -sn -f mpegts pipe:
2012-03-10 17:53:28,796 DEBUG [FeedUpdaterThread] Checking for new and expired online resources

The profile that is giving problems is : MEDIA_ITEM/AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3_ISO*1

The SD is not.

Any thoughts?

And here is what you get when you run ffmpeg manually:

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg.exe -i "rtmp://s7.webport.tv/live/z050227.st
ream pageUrl=http://www.tvsector.com/ swfVfy=0 live=1 -y -async 1 -vcodec copy -
vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -copyts -acodec ac3 -ab 384k -ac 2 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -sn -
f mpegts"
ffmpeg version 0.9, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Dec 13 2011 20:46:11 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. 32. 0 / 51. 32. 0
libavcodec 53. 42. 0 / 53. 42. 0
libavformat 53. 24. 0 / 53. 24. 0
libavdevice 53. 4. 0 / 53. 4. 0
libavfilter 2. 53. 0 / 2. 53. 0
libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
Metadata:
audiochannels 2.00
audiosamplerate 44100.00
audiocodecid mp4a
videocodecid avc1
width 1280.00
height 720.00
frameWidth 1280.00
frameHeight 720.00
displayWidth 1280.00
displayHeight 720.00
framerate 25.00
trackinfo:
timescale 0.00
language eng
sampledescription:
sampletype
type audio
config 1210
description {AACFrame: codec:AAC, channels:2, frequency:44100, sampl
esPerFrame:1024, objectType:LC}
timescale 0.00
language eng
sampledescription:
sampletype
type video
profile-level-id 42c01f
sprop-parameter-sets Z0LAH9oBQBbsBEAAAAMAQAAADKPGDKg=,aM4yyA==
description {H264CodecConfigInfo: codec:H264, profile:Baseline, leve
l:3.1, frameSize:1280x720, displaySize:1280x720, frameRate:25.0, PAR:1:1}
rtpsessioninfo:
connectiondata IN IP4 238.5.2.27
name WowzaMediaServer
origin - -1353090833 -1353090833 IN IP4 127.0.0.1
timing 0 0
protocolversion 0
attributes:
range npt=now-
[flv @ 018b9680] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, flv, from 'rtmp://s7.webport.tv/live/z050227.stream pageUrl=http://www
.tvsector.com/ swfVfy=0 live=1 -y -async 1 -vcodec copy -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -
copyts -acodec ac3 -ab 384k -ac 2 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -sn -f mpegts':
Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline), yuv420p, 1280x720 [SAR 1:1
DAR 16:9], 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16
At least one output file must be specified

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>

Infamous pink screen on the Sony SMP-N100

[serviio-buddy]

Thanks for the detailed logs. I will look thru them and try to make some sense of it and see if there's anything we could maybe change in the profiles.xml to make this work.

Reading thru the serviio.log file, I don't really see an error appearing. It looks like it just starts transcoding the file thru ffmpeg, but no errors are reported as far as I can tell.

Reading thru your ffmpeg details, the bitrate says N/A, but I didn't see any errors here either.

But, I am not an expert and am just a newbie to Serviio, so there are things in those files I may not be seeing.

I also turned on the Sony SMP-N100's on-screen display right before starting a M2TS live stream to view the Video and Audio bitrates, before it usually reboots.

[serviio-buddy]

  Code:

2012-03-10 22:04:53,743 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 10.10.10.5
2012-03-10 22:04:53,743 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Resource request accepted. Using client 'IPAddress=/10.10.10.5, Profile=Sony BD Player / SMP'
2012-03-10 22:04:53,744 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Request for resource 1000000001470001 and type 'MEDIA_ITEM' received
2012-03-10 22:04:53,744 DEBUG [MediaResourceRetrievalStrategy] Getting information about media item 1000000001470001 (online)
2012-03-10 22:04:53,744 DEBUG [OnlineRepositoryDAOImpl] Reading an OnlineRepository (id = 147)
2012-03-10 22:04:53,744 DEBUG [OnlineRepositoryDAOImpl] Reading an OnlineRepository (id = 147)
2012-03-10 22:04:53,744 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering item '1000000001470001' for client 'IPAddress=/10.10.10.5, Profile=Sony BD Player / SMP'
2012-03-10 22:04:53,744 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Delivering file 'rtmp://cp87869.live.edgefcs.net/live/ swfUrl=http://www.flashwebtown.com/mediaplayer/mediaplayer.swf pageURL=http://www.flashwebtown.com playpath=us_300@21006 swfVfy=0 live=1' using transcoding
2012-03-10 22:04:53,744 DEBUG [AbstractTranscodingDeliveryEngine] No suitable transcoding job exists yet, start one for client 'IPAddress=/10.10.10.5, Profile=Sony BD Player / SMP'
2012-03-10 22:04:53,744 DEBUG [FFMPEGWrapper] Invoking FFmpeg to transcode video file: rtmp://cp87869.live.edgefcs.net/live/ swfUrl=http://www.flashwebtown.com/mediaplayer/mediaplayer.swf pageURL=http://www.flashwebtown.com playpath=us_300@21006 swfVfy=0 live=1
2012-03-10 22:04:53,748 DEBUG [ProcessExecutor] Starting C:\Program Files\Serviio\bin\\..\lib/ffmpeg.exe -i rtmp://cp87869.live.edgefcs.net/live/ swfUrl=http://www.flashwebtown.com/mediaplayer/mediaplayer.swf pageURL=http://www.flashwebtown.com playpath=us_300@21006 swfVfy=0 live=1 -y -async 1 -vcodec copy -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -copyts -acodec ac3 -ab 384k -ac 2 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -sn -f mpegts pipe:
2012-03-10 22:04:56,747 DEBUG [VideoDeliveryEngine] Found Format profile for transcoded file rtmp://cp87869.live.edgefcs.net/live/ swfUrl=http://www.flashwebtown.com/mediaplayer/mediaplayer.swf pageURL=http://www.flashwebtown.com playpath=us_300@21006 swfVfy=0 live=1: AVC_TS_MP_SD_AC3_ISO
2012-03-10 22:04:56,747 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Creating stream entity with length: 50000000000
2012-03-10 22:04:56,747 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Creating entity with chunked transfer
2012-03-10 22:04:56,747 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Sending file back
2012-03-10 22:04:56,747 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] HTTP/1.1 200 OK, headers = [[Content-Type: video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts,Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 05:04:56 GMT,Server: Windows Vista, UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50, Serviio/0.6.2,Cache-control: no-cache,contentFeatures.dlna.org: DLNA.ORG_PN=MPEG_TS_SD_NA;DLNA.ORG_OP=00;DLNA.ORG_CI=1;DLNA.ORG_FLAGS=8D500000000000000000000000000000,transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming]]
2012-03-10 22:04:56,759 DEBUG [WebServer] I/O error: Software caused connection abort: socket write error
2012-03-10 22:04:56,766 DEBUG [WebServer] Incoming connection from /10.10.10.5:62180
2012-03-10 22:04:56,857 DEBUG [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] GET /resource/1000000001470001/MEDIA_ITEM/AVC_TS_MP_SD_AC3_ISO*1 HTTP/1.1, headers = [Host: 10.10.10.5:8895,Accept: */*,getcontentFeatures.dlna.org: 1,X-AV-Physical-Unit-Info: pa="Media Player",X-AV-Client-Info: av=5.0; cn="Sony Corporation"; mn="Media Player"; mv="2.0"]]
2012-03-10 22:04:56,857 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Reading a Renderer with ip address 10.10.10.5

When I tried to play a M2TS live stream from Sony SMP-N100 tonight, I received the following error (6 lines from bottom of code listing above) stating:

2012-03-10 22:04:56,759 DEBUG [WebServer] I/O error: Software caused connection abort: socket write error

This error sequence repeated for a few times until the Sony SMP-N100 finally rebooted again. Note that this exact M2TS live stream did actually play 3 times in a row before it started rebooting again.

Following is the ffmpeg results using the same M2TS live stream:

  Code:

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg -i "rtmp://cp87869.live.edgefcs.net/live/ sw
fUrl=http://www.flashwebtown.com/mediaplayer/mediaplayer.swf pageURL=http://www.
flashwebtown.com playpath=us_300@21006 swfVfy=0 live=1"
ffmpeg version 0.9, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Dec 13 2011 20:46:11 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. 32. 0 / 51. 32. 0
  libavcodec   53. 42. 0 / 53. 42. 0
  libavformat  53. 24. 0 / 53. 24. 0
  libavdevice  53.  4. 0 / 53.  4. 0
  libavfilter   2. 53. 0 /  2. 53. 0
  libswscale    2.  1. 0 /  2.  1. 0
Metadata:
  width                 640.00
  height                360.00
  framerate             30.00
  videodatarate         1000.00
  videocodecid          avc1
  audiodatarate         64.00
  audiocodecid          mp4a
[flv @ 002785a0] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, flv, from 'rtmp://cp87869.live.edgefcs.net/live/ swfUrl=http://www.fla
shwebtown.com/mediaplayer/mediaplayer.swf pageURL=http://www.flashwebtown.com pl
aypath=us_300@21006 swfVfy=0 live=1':
  Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main), yuv420p, 640x360, 29.97 tbr, 1k tbn, 59.94
tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16
At least one output file must be specified

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>

Have you tried removing maxvbitrate=17000 from the config file for h264?

[serviio-buddy]

Have you tried removing maxvbitrate=17000 from the config file for h264?

Before I removed "maxVBitrate=17000" from profiles.xml, I was able to play the M2TS live stream intermittently,and with Sony SMP-N100 OSD (on screen display) enabled, it reported:

1.0Mbps AVC with audio as Dolby Digital 2.0ch 44.1kHz 384kbps

Here's the modified profiles.xml file after I removed "maxVBitrate=17000":

  Code:

</Video>
         <!-- h264 videos with high/main profile level > 4.1 will be transcoded to mpegts with mpeg2video and ac3 audio -->
         <!-- 031112 removed maxVBitrate="17000" from next line to see if M2TS live streams will play -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="320">
            <Matches container="avi" vCodec="h264" profile="high" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />
            <Matches container="avi" vCodec="h264" profile="main" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" profile="high" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" profile="main" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />
            <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" profile="high" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />
            <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" profile="main" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />
            <Matches container="mpegts" vCodec="h264" profile="high" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />
            <Matches container="mpegts" vCodec="h264" profile="main" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="vp8" />

After I removed "maxVBitrate=17000" from profiles.xml file in code listed above, the M2TS live stream was still just as intermittently able to play about 10% of the time as before, but now, before showing the actual stream (black screen), the Sony SMP-N100 OSD (on screen display) showed 2.0Mbps, then 3.0Mbps and varied on these levels where before, it never showed any video bitrate until the M2TS live stream actually started playing.

If you tried this, did it make any difference when you tried to play M2TS live streams?

Thanks.

Have you looked at the audiocodec: mp4a.
I think it has to do with that.
The channel I'm testing with also has mp4a as audiocodec.
I'm trying to understand the PS3 profile as reference.

[serviio-buddy]

I just removed aBitrate="320" from that same line, but it made no difference.

I'll look at the audiocodec:mp4a as that shows up on the M2TS live stream channel I'm testing with too.

Any luck?

[serviio-buddy]

No, not yet.