Video Quality - Panasonic VIERA TC-P50S30

Hello everyone. I'm going to start by saying that I'm not entirely new to media streaming to my TV from the PC, but I'm still a noob at best.

I'm running the newest Serviio that I downloaded today to run my movies to the TV. My question is, the movies going to the TV are a pretty poor quality compared to watching them on the PC. I had to run the Panasonic Viera E/S/ST/VT (2011) profile to get the TV to play the videos at all. The Generic profile and the other Panasonic profiles give me a "Cannot read file" error on the TV. Don't get me wrong, I like how this works. Doing much better than PS3 media Server and Mezzmo, but I was wondering how to improve the quality of streaming to the TV.

I have "Produce the best video quality" checked in the Serviio console, and I read through the Transcoding Configurations support page, but I'm completely lost on how to improve quality. Even though I consider myself an advanced PC user, I don't want to go into anything I might mess things up with, because I was happy enough to get the server working right in the first place.

Can someone tell me what I have to do, whether editing a profile setting or changing the codec configurations, if I am able to improve the streaming quality to the TV?

Thanks a lot!


BTW - Serviio is awesome. I am really enjoying it so far.

[slyguy42o]

what kind of media are you streaming to your TV? are you pushing a 1080 and having it look like junk? or are you viewing web streams?

[zip]

and are you on Linux? If so, build the latest FFMpeg

Hi. I'll hijack this thread, since I'm going to be asking about profiles for a 2012 panasonic as well.

So far, I think it will take most video codecs, but seems to be much more picky about audio. It does seem that repackaging will be how we'll have to go, and now it's just a matter of figuring out what audio codecs it doesn't like. I do think it's fine with AC3, but no go on dts. So the profile would be repackaging everything to mpegts, then telling it to transcode most of the audio to something else, and some of the video? Seems pretty simple, but I'll have to learn how to do it and all.

On a side note, what loss of video quality can be expected? Is there a way, given infinite computer resources, to transcode without any loss of quality at all? I assume this is using ffdshow as I wasn't asked to install anything when I installed serviio.

edit: From a panasonic cs guy, here are the codecs it will support.

• MP4 files (Video codec H.264 | Audio codec MP3/AC-3/LPCM)
• MKV files (Video codec H.264 | Audio codec MP3/AC-3/LPCM)
• MPEG-2 PS files*
• MPEG-2 TS files*

At least this way, you could have a profile that only transcodes when needed, which shouldn't be all that much.

I have everything working running from a Windows 7 PC on a wired ethernet network to the TV. I have a Phenom II 965BE, 4 GB 1333Mhz RAM and an Nvidia 250 GTS card.

The video for 720p files and up run very nice and the surround sound audio comes through great. My problem is with the smaller avi. files I have like older DVD rips that are around 700 MB. The video has a blurriness to it that PS3 media server didn't give me. Also, the audio on the lesser files goes from being crystal clear on my PC to a gargly mess when streamed to the TV. You can still hear the movie fine but it's all filled with weird noise. Like when you have an MP3 that's a really, really low bitrate compared to one with 128kbs and up.