Sammy 7000 Series TV - inconsistent playing of HD wtv files

Hi, I'm totally new to Serviio and have just installed it on my Windows 7 64 bit system. I have a Blackgold HD Freeview TV tuner which uses Windows Media Center to record programs. These end up as .wtv files.

I want to play these files on my 7000 series Samsung TV (UE46D7000). So I have configured Serviio (v1.1) with the "Samsung TV / Player (C/D/E-series)" profile and have enabled transcoding with "best video quality" set and "Keep original" Audio channels. I have no problems in playing SD quality wtv files but not all HD files play (one or two do by most don't - file not supported).

Has anybody else seen this and have any suggestions how to fix?

I know I'm bumping this post but, without any reply, can anybody advise whether there's a better forum to put this query?

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post detailed log of playing the file

post detailed log of playing the file

Thanks for the reply. I've attached the the log entry from the point where I selected an HD program to play on the TV ("E:\Public Videos\Test\Food Unwrapped_Channel 4 HD_2012_10_22_20_28_00.wtv"). This program errors and it skips to the next program which is SD and that plays OK ("Heston's Christmas Feast_More 4_2012_12_23_21_58_00.wtv").

I've not included the whole log, do you need it all? Header info in the log is:

2013-01-26 08:09:08,814 DEBUG [ApplicationInstanceManager] Listening for application instances on socket 44331
2013-01-26 08:09:08,814 INFO [MediaServer] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
2013-01-26 08:09:08,814 INFO [MediaServer] Serviio DLNA media streaming server v 1.1 (rev. 6ba0dd933a8e+)
2013-01-26 08:09:08,814 INFO [MediaServer] Petr Nejedly 2009-2012
2013-01-26 08:09:08,814 INFO [MediaServer] http://www.serviio.org
2013-01-26 08:09:08,814 INFO [MediaServer]
2013-01-26 08:09:08,830 INFO [MediaServer] Java 1.7.0_05-Oracle Corporation
2013-01-26 08:09:08,830 INFO [MediaServer] OS Windows 7 amd64 6.1
2013-01-26 08:09:08,830 INFO [MediaServer] File encoding: windows-1252
2013-01-26 08:09:08,830 INFO [MediaServer] Headless mode enabled: true

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FFmpeg failed transcoding.

Try executing this command and post the output here

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ffmpeg.exe -fflags +genpts -threads auto -i "E:\Public Videos\Test\Food Unwrapped_Channel 4 HD_2012_10_22_20_28_00.wtv" -y -copyts -c:v copy -bsf:v h264_mp4toannexb -mpegts_m2ts_mode 1 -c:a copy -map 0:2 -map 0:0 -sn -f mpegts C:\Windows\TEMP\Serviio\transcoding-temp-7958-7-ORIGINAL.stf

Thanks for the reply. I've run the command and output attached.

Serviio ffmpeg cmd.txt

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and now try this

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ffmpeg.exe -fflags +genpts -threads auto -i "E:\Public Videos\Test\Food Unwrapped_Channel 4 HD_2012_10_22_20_28_00.wtv" -y -copyts -c:v copy -c:a copy -map 0:2 -map 0:0 -sn -f mpegts C:\Windows\TEMP\Serviio\test_wtv.mpg

and if it finishes, try to add and play it in Serviio

Tried that but it produced errors again and output file was empty. Attached is the cmd output.

Serviio ffmpeg cmd 2.txt

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could you try the same command with the latest FFmpeg build from http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/

(static 32bit build)

Many thanks - there's been some progress. The ffmpeg cmd you suggested with the latest exe file did run and produced an output file although some errors were reported and the resultant video had no sound. Having copied the latest ffmpeg.exe to the lib folder also meant that I could stream it successfully and it streamed the video OK but there was also no sound.

I added the "-report" option to the cmd line and it produced the following log if that helps.

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One other observation. When I play the file on my Samsung TV, I do not get the option to be able to skip of fast forward through the program. I assume that this is a totally different problem - has this been covered on other threads and is there a fix?

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try to add this

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<Matches container="wtv" vCodec="h264"/>

just after

  Code:

<Matches container="3gp" aCodec="amrnb" />

in your c/d/e profile.