Sony BDP-S390

Hi All,

I have 2 problems that I am trying to work through with a Sony BDP 390 player.
My device is an Australian unit running firmware M11,R,0422
I have it connected via a wired ethernet connection to my hone network.
I also have a PC running WinXP and Serviio 1.1

The first problem I have is that the player doesn't appear to show up in the serviio console render profiles / connected devices section.
At the moment I have a mkv file playing via dnla and nothing appears to show up as a connected device.
I have attached a screenshot of the serviio console.

The other issue is that I cant seem to get it to play avi files via dlna.
I have a file which is an avi that is XVID encoded, and I can see it with the s390 but whenever I go to play it I get a message saying that its corrupt or not supported. I have quite a few of these AVI files and they all give the same result.
The files do however play fine when I put them on a USB stick and play them from that.
I have verified that the files are xvid as opposed to divx

Any suggestions on the above would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks, Mark

I seem to have fixed my first problem.
A restart of my PC and Serviio as a result now shows the correct connected devices.

Any advice on how to get this to play avi files would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks, Mark

Can you please provide the details of your video?

Can you please provide the details of your video?

No worries, a test movie I have been trying is:

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg.exe -i "c:\movies\kids\TestMovie.avi"
ffmpeg version N-42368-gbf53863 Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jul 10 2012 03:40:45 with gcc 4.6.3
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffs
erver --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --extra-libs='
-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enab
le-pthreads --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --pkg-config=pk
g-config
libavutil 51. 64.100 / 51. 64.100
libavcodec 54. 33.100 / 54. 33.100
libavformat 54. 15.102 / 54. 15.102
libavdevice 54. 1.100 / 54. 1.100
libavfilter 3. 1.100 / 3. 1.100
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 15.100 / 0. 15.100
Input #0, avi, from 'c:\movies\kids\TestMovie.avi':
Metadata:
encoder : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2542/release)
Duration: 01:30:38.98, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1080 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile) (XVID / 0x44495658), yuv
420p, 592x320 [SAR 1:1 DAR 37:20], 23.98 tbr, 23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: ac3 ([0] [0][0] / 0x2000), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16, 320
kb/s

The movie in question plays fine on a usb stick inserted into the device, however I have quite a number of them and would like to play them over my home network.


Thanks, Mark

Edit profile.xml

Find relevant line and alter it to this (it's set to mime type video/mpeg by default, which simply doesn't work for our region)

  Code:

<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/avi">AVI</MediaFormatProfile>

Also to fix playback (transcode) non-Xvid AVI, add these to the transcoding section section with dvvideo and mjpeg

  Code:

<Matches container="avi" vCodec="mpeg4" vFourCC="div3,div4,div5,divx,dm4v,dx50" />
<Matches container="avi" vCodec="msmpeg4" vFourCC="div3,div4,div5,divx,dm4v,dx50" />