[SOLVED] No video with .flv file on KDL-32V5800

Hi,

while playback of other video files is basically working with serviio and my Sony Bravia KDL-32V5800, I have trouble with .flv files which I downloaded from the german television website.

Problem:
Audio is played back correctly, but the video is missing. Only some colored blocks in one row appear at the upper left corner of the screen as a static picture.

Can anyone help how to fix this?

Thanks,
Thomas

Below the video file description and also attached a log file:

  Code:

C:\Program Files\Serviio\lib>ffmpeg -i d:\Maya\Desktop\DVD\Eisenbahn-Romantik-Ca
lifornia_Zephyr_-_von_den_Rocky_Mountains_...-544233.l.mp4.flv
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, flv, from 'd:\Maya\Desktop\DVD\Eisenbahn-Romantik-California_Zephyr_-_von_den_Rocky_Mountains_...-544233.l.mp4.flv':
  Metadata:
    moovPosition    : 432265837
    avcprofile      : 77
    avclevel        : 31
    aacaot          : 2
    videoframerate  : 25
    audiochannels   : 2
  Duration: 00:28:59.71, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1998 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main), yuv420p, 960x544 [SAR 1:1 DAR 30:17], 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16

[Illico]

Sorry for delay...
This file is only remuxed to mpegts container, so its probably due to video codec.

C:\Program Files\Serviio\bin\\..\lib/ffmpeg.exe -fflags +genpts -i D:\Maya\Desktop\DVD\Eisenbahn-Romantik-California_Zephyr_-_von_den_Rocky_Mountains_...-544233.l.mp4.flv -y -copyts -c:v copy -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -c:a copy -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -sn -f mpegts C:\Windows\TEMP\Serviio\transcoding-temp-3-sony2009-ORIGINAL.stf

Could you provide detail about video format with MediaInfotool result ?

Hi Illico,
below the output of MediaInfo.
Many thanks
Thomas


General
Complete name : D:\Maya\Desktop\DVD\Eisenbahn-Romantik-California_Zephyr_-_von_San_Francisco_in_die_...-541642.l.mp4.flv
Format : Flash Video
File size : 410 MiB
Duration : 28mn 40s
Overall bit rate : 1 998 Kbps

Video
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Main@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 2 frames
Codec ID : 7
Duration : 28mn 40s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Nominal bit rate : 1 800 Kbps
Width : 960 pixels
Height : 544 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.138

Audio
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 10
Duration : 28mn 40s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy

[Illico]

Hi Illico,
below the output of MediaInfo.

Video codec seems good, only display resolution 960x544 and DAR:30:17 are weird.
You should probably force transcodig AVC to MPEG2video. For this particular stream, you can change the profile on serviio console ? (I'm at work, so I don't remember which transcode flv to mpegts/mpeg2video/ac3, but try all)

I added the following lines to the profile and it works now. Many thanks!

<Video aBitrate="192" targetACodec="ac3" targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" maxVBitrate="17000" DAR="16:9">
<Matches container="flv" vCodec="h264"/>
</Video>


One flaw I have with this file:
The picture seems to be cropped a bit on all four edges. When executing the ffmpeg manually and viewing the resulting file with VLC, it is not cropped. So I think the TV does the cropping. Could this have to do with that odd resolution? When I find some time I will try to figure out how to change the resolution for some experiments ...

[Illico]

One flaw I have with this file:
The picture seems to be cropped a bit on all four edges. When executing the ffmpeg manually and viewing the resulting file with VLC, it is not cropped. So I think the TV does the cropping. Could this have to do with that odd resolution? When I find some time I will try to figure out how to change the resolution for some experiments ...

Do you try with DAR="4:3", or change sony display options?

Hi,

extending the ‘Sony2009’-<transcoding>-section in Profiles.XML by

<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" maxVBitrate="17000" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="192" DAR="16:9">
<Matches container="flv" vCodec="h264"/>
</Video>

solved my problems [downloaded 960x544 - FLV-files from german ‘Mediathek’].

Thank you very much !
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