SONY 2010 Series - AVI encoding?

Hi,

A couple of questions -

1) When I installed 1.0.1, although my Sony 40EX503 TV showed up on the status screen, it showed up as "unrecognized device" and was allocated a generic profile. I have since changed the profile to be "Sony Bravia TV (2010).

Is there a reason why my TV isn't being recognised automatically as a Sony Bravia 2010 TV, and will this cause any issues?

Most things are working (I love the new playlist feature!) - however -

2) Whilst AVI files have been added to my library, when they are displayed on the Sony TV, they are very "jumpy". I have read that this may be caused by the fact that the AVI's need to be decoded and this may be causing the "jumpy" pictures (decoding processing).
(.WMV files seem to be working fine). Is there anything I can do to solve the AVI issues, or do I need to accept this and perhaps go back and save my captured DV tape footage to be saved as .WMVs? Would a faster PC help (I will admit that the laptop I am using to host Serviio is on the old side...)

Thanks.

[Illico]

Could you enable detailed logging (see signature link), restart serviio service?
Could you check the ffmpeg command line used to transcode the avi file ?
Could you try the same command line locally in a windows terminal and post ffmpeg log result here ? we will check the transcoding process speed (fps)

Hi.

Thanks for getting back to me.
I think I have managed to generate and extract the required log info (attached).

Sorry - I am not sure what I need to type into the Windows CMD prompt, as you suggest?

Cheers,

Ian

[Illico]

Open a windows terminal (type cmd on windows start), and try this command line and post result here.

C:\Program Files\Serviio\bin\\..\lib/ffmpeg.exe -i "C:\Documents and Settings\Ian Fenelon\My Documents\My Videos\8th birthday.avi" -y -threads 1 -copyts -c:v mpeg2video -b:v 17000k -maxrate:v 17000k -bufsize:v 17000k -vf pad=1024:576:152:0:black,setdar=4:3 -r 25 -g 15 -c:a ac3 -b:a 384k -ar 48000 -ac 2 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -sn -f mpegts C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\Serviio\transcoding-temp-456-sony2010-ORIGINAL.stf

Thanks.

I ran the command.
Output attached.

[NX3]

Are you running over wifi by any chance from your laptop ? G ? N 150 ? N 300 ? Have you tried via a Ethernet cable ?

Thanks -

Yes - I am running over a laptop, wireless connection.
I will try using an ethernet connection this evening.
This will probably make a difference (I agree).

However, I would like to get the wireless connection working - I intend to store all my AVIs on a separate hard-disk which is elsewhere in the house (away from TV & router).

The avi file I have been testing with is stored locally on the laptop.

Other formats seem to work OK wireless - ie WMV.
Music is fine too.
It seems to be just the AVI format which is jumpy.

[Illico]

Thanks.
I ran the command.
Output attached.

The transcoding process rate is around fps= 30, it's quite low compared to the video frame rate 25 or 30 fps.
transcoding process rate > 100 should be good.

[NX3]

Its not the format as such but the resolution and bitrate i.e DV. If you make them lower quality any format including AVI they will play better but do you really want to do that ? I wouldn't recomment WMV as its a much more limited format with poor support. To reduce the bandwidth and overhead you could convert to x264 mp4 using handbrake for example.

Post back your results running wired please.

What type of wifi does your router and laptop support ? are the both G ? N 150 ? N 300 ?

I have just tried the same AVI video (taken from DV) through a wired ethernet connection - with similar results.

Looks like the best thing may be to try to convert to .mp4, as suggested.
I will try that and let you know how I get on.

Many thanks.

I have just installed handbrake, converted the AVI video to MP4, and added to the Serviio library.
The sound appears to be out-of-sync with the video ?

Will do some more digging round on another day.

Many thanks for all of your help so far!