Viera E50 Profile Needs Some Modification

Hey guys,

So, as best I can tell, the Viera E50 (TC-L47E50) does not support AVI or DTS. However, the main Viera 2011/2012 profile does not account for this - it assumes avi support and does not transcode dts. What are your suggested modifications to the profile?

Here's an amended profile that I just made. Seems to be working and fixes DTS support by transcoding the acodec "dca." Should also properly transcode AVIs now:

  Code:

   <Profile id="viera2011a" name="Panasonic Viera E/G/GT/DT/UT (2011/2012)" extendsProfileId="1">
      <!-- Panasonic Viera E30, E3, G30, GT30, DT30, UT30 With avi (2011), E50... (2012)  With AVI Support -->
      <Detection>
         <UPnPSearch>
            <FriendlyName>VIERA (G|D|U|E)T?(3|5)0?.*</FriendlyName>
            <Manufacturer>Panasonic</Manufacturer>
         </UPnPSearch>
      </Detection>
      <ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>org.serviio.upnp.service.contentdirectory.PacketVideoDLNAMessageBuilder</ContentDirectoryMessageBuilder>
      <SubtitlesMimeType>text/srt</SubtitlesMimeType>
      <MediaFormatProfiles>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVI</MediaFormatProfile>
      </MediaFormatProfiles>
      <Transcoding>
         <!-- Transcode h264 videos with profile level > 4.1 to mpegts with ac3 audio -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" forceInheritance="true">
            <Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" profile="high" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />
            <Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" profile="main" levelGreaterThan="4.1" />
         </Video>
         <!-- remux VORBIS/FLAC/LPCM in MKV/MP4 to AC3 -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" forceInheritance="true">
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" aCodec="dca" />
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" aCodec="vorbis" />
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" aCodec="truehd" />
            <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" aCodec="lpcm" />
            <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" aCodec="aac" />
            <Matches container="3gp" vCodec="h264" />
         </Video>
         <!-- Remux MPEG-TS with no transcoding -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" forceInheritance="true">
            <Matches container="avi" vCodec="h264" />
            <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="h264" />
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="mpeg2video" />
         </Video>
         <!-- Remux WTV files to MPEG-PS with no transcoding -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpeg" forceInheritance="true">
            <Matches container="wtv" />
         </Video>
         <!-- unsupported codecs will be transcoded into mpeg-ts, mpeg2 video and ac3 audio -->
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" forceInheritance="true">
            <Matches container="avi" />
            <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="mjpeg" />
            <Matches container="mp4" vCodec="mpeg4" />
            <Matches container="mpeg" vCodec="mpeg1video" />
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="mpeg4" />
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="vp8" />            
            <Matches container="asf" />
            <Matches container="flv" />
            <Matches container="ogg" />
            <Matches container="3gp" />
         </Video>
         <!-- unsupported audio will be transcoded into LPCM audio -->
         <Audio targetContainer="lpcm" forceInheritance="true">
            <Matches container="ogg" />
            <Matches container="asf" />
            <Matches container="adts" />
         </Audio>
      </Transcoding>
   </Profile>


Thoughts? Suggestions?

Works great. I have the L42E50 and had the same problems with DTS and avi. Been meaning to modify the profile myself but hadn't gotten around to it. Thanks for doing the work.

Works great. I have the L42E50 and had the same problems with DTS and avi. Been meaning to modify the profile myself but hadn't gotten around to it. Thanks for doing the work.

Great. I tested some DTS MKVs last night and they worked really well. I'll have to try some AVIs later.

Now, if we could only figure out how to get this TV to play subtitles...

[zip]

I've added the DCA bit to 1.0.1 profile already. Thought AVI should be supported, accordng to this thread: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5119

Can you go through that and confirm if there is something wrong there?

I've added the DCA bit to 1.0.1 profile already. Thought AVI should be supported, accordng to this thread: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5119

Can you go through that and confirm if there is something wrong there?

Hey zip,

Based on tech specs published by Panasonic (http://shop.panasonic.com/shop/model/TC-L47E50?t=specs) The E50 model supports the following formats:

AVCHD Progressive/SD-VIDEO/MotionJPEG (Lumix)/MKV/MP4/MOV/M4v/FLV/3GPP/VRO/VOB/TS/PS, MP3/AAC/FLAC, JPEG

They didn't list this, but it also supports AC3 and LPCM. So, beyond the DTS change, the E50 natively supports FLAC so I removed FLAC transcoding and the E50 does not support the AVI container so I changed the profile to transcode all AVIs.

[zip]

So perhaps it belongs to the group of TVs using profile Panasonic Viera S/ST/VT (2011) - which is 2011 without AVI support

EDIT - also on the panasonic webpage, it doesn't list AVI even for the models that should support it (VT/UT/DT), So I'm not sure. Currently I added E detection to the other 2011 Viera profile.

Petr,

The problem that arises from dca transcoding is that these Viera sets have aspect ratio issues with mpeg ts playback. There's been a couple other threads about this. Basically, the E50 will play mkvs with proper padding and maintain the aspect ratio. However, mpeg ts is always stretched to fill the 16:9 frame. Any ideas?

[zip]

Hard for me to reproduce. You could try to find the proper ffmpeg command parameters that would produce mpegts the way you want and I'd add it to Serviio

Hard for me to reproduce. You could try to find the proper ffmpeg command parameters that would produce mpegts the way you want and I'd add it to Serviio

Hmm, I could try Illico's Bravia aspect ratio fix. He uses the flag:

  Code:

-vf "pad=max(iw,ih*16/9):max(ih,iw/16*9):(ow-iw)/2:(oh-ih)/2:black,setdar=4:3"

Alternatively, is there a way to transcode the audio from DCA to LPCM or AC3 without using MPEG-TS? Is it possible to keep the mkv container?

See other threads here:

http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5403
http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2055
http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2956

[zip]

Illicos filter will not work, it is only applied when you transcode video - it's is now used in Serviio when DAR attribute is specified in transcoding config.

MpegTS should keep information about the content's acpect ratio, though. You cannot transcode to mkv on-the-fly.

That's what I figured. Is there anything I can test or any logs or info that I could provide that would help solve this problem?

This would be so simple if Panasonic just supported DTS!

[zip]

as I said, try to play with the ffmpeg command serviio uses to store the proper DAR so that it's right when you play the resulting file on your TV

as I said, try to play with the ffmpeg command serviio uses to store the proper DAR so that it's right when you play the resulting file on your TV

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Will do. Where can I find the actual ffmpeg commands? They don't live in the profiles.xml and I can't seem to locate them elsewhere.

[zip]

enable detailed log, play the file and you'll find the command in the log

Thanks for the profile update -- that worked perfectly!

Just got a Viera 55E50 and loaded up Serviio (first time serviio user, and DLNA user for that matter). Great product! Glad to have a multi-platform option in this Linux / Mac household.

Sorry for bringing up such an old thread but I wanted to get Serviio working with my Panasonic Viera L47E50. I copied/pasted this profile into the profiles.xml file and serviio service won't start now. Is there more involved to this than just copy paste into the profiles.xml file?

[DenyAll]

Have you tried using the standard ]Panasonic Viera profiles that come with Serviio.

Try the Panasonic Viera G/GT/DT/UT/VT (2011/2012) profile first and try an AVI file. If that doesnt work try the Panasonic Viera E/S/ST/VT (2011) profile (the only difference between the two is the handling of AVI files).