Thanks Serviio Rocks!

So far I have been pretty impressed with Serviio. Being able to use android or apple phones to control which media is played where is pretty cool.

My setup
TV: Samsung UA55C6900
Server: Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS (precise)
Phone: Android using UPnPlay (the best one I have found so far)

Out of the box Serviio worked well with most of my media and was pretty straight forward to setup.

There were a few problems however, getting online streams (ie YouTube) working and getting Ogg audio files to play.

The post here: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6039 on getting the right version of FFMpeg is pretty much a must do to get everything working. That said it isn't really a problem with Serviio itself.

I also found that selecting media though the TV I was able to get ogg files to play, but if I selected the same media though UPnP the media would not play. The simple solution to this is to change the rendering profile in the Serviio console to be the same as the TV.

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I also found that selecting media though the TV I was able to get ogg files to play, but if I selected the same media though UPnP the media would not play. The simple solution to this is to change the rendering profile in the Serviio console to be the same as the TV.

Yes, because the incoming requests to Serviio are coming from the mobile app, rather than TV, therefore you have to manually give the mobile IP the TV's profile.

Thanks from me too!

I have a Sony Bravia KDL-40EX500 (at least that's what Serviio reports) and it works excellently, at least the basics I tried out so far. Installed serviio, added videos, and it worked like a charme! I was so impressed by the "works out of the box", that I looked for a place to donate but found in forum some entries the info you've removed the donate button at the moment...

The whole story is somewhat longer:

I have just bought a LaCie NAS 2 and hoped with it's DLNA functionality my kids could look lot of downloaded FLVs. Well turns out, seems not - Bravia supports (my guess) only a very limited set of codecs (is that said correctly?). Googling for that problem I stumbled upon serviio. I had used mini-DLNA on a linux box while ago, but at the moment I don't have any Linux around. Thus I installed serviio into my old WinXP with single core 1.8 GHz and it just works.... perfectly.

(Well, true, the downloaded videos from Youtube or YleAreena [finnish public TV] do not have very high resolution, but still... converting such a video with (again) some other commercial SW usually takes like 100% CPU for 1.5-3 times as long the video is... - if one would know the needed target specs, which I didn't; none of my converted videos ever appeared in Bravia. That's why I looked for that "needed specs" and found a pointer to serviio instead

I was impressed that even such an old/slow PC can transcode quick enough on the fly. To me it looks like it uses lot of CPU (90%) for, like, only first half of the video's length, starting from when TV requested replay, and then CPU use goes down again. In contrast, the commercial converter made the PC basically unusable for the whole duration while it was converting. Well perhaps serviio just "re-muxes" or whatever... I'm happy as long as it works

This was such a happy experience after days and hours of struggling with ... "commercial stuff" that I wanted to let you hear:

Well done!!

BR,
Clemens