Samsung HT-D5550

Hi there,

I have a Samsung HT-D5550 Blu-ray /media player connected on LAN to a Windows 7 64-bit PC with a D-Link DNS-320 NAS. I can play MKV files when I connect a drive to the USB on the Samsung direct, but when I tried to stream from the network, it states that the same files are in an unssuported codec. I know this is something you are all aware of and like all of you, I scrapped the Samsung AllShare software and switched to Serviio.

I had some issues getting Serviio to scan the files on the Dlink NAS initially, but having read lots on the forum I managed to get them all scanned. Now, for the part that I would really like some help on. I know that bits of what I need are on the forum, but I'm having trouble piecing it all together.

I decided to rip my Blu-Ray movies using PavTube ByteCopy as it allowed for quick conversion to an MKV file using passthrough on audio and video so I got great quality. My Samsung is automatically detected in Serviio and the system sets the Samsung C/D profile. I tried streaming the files to the Samsung from Serviio without the Transcoding enabled, as the MKV is native to the Samsung. It gave me the same error as when I used AllShare (codec issue). I then tried enabling Transcoding to see if that helped and it played the file. In Transcoding, am I losing quality i.e. does the sound get switched to stereo rather than 5.1 etc? Ideally I would rather not transcode.

In addition, I see that when I connect a drive to the USB on the Samsung, I can FFWD and RW plus skip using the tools button. I know this is a known issue and people have made suggestions about remuxing the file using MKV Merge (I have downloaded this and am currently running it on a file to test), but if the issue is related to the file format / header etc, it seems like a pain to have to do this to every file manually on top of having done the original rip.

Is there anyone that can advise of how they produce MKV files that don't have this formatting error that requires Remuxing? I would rather just rip them in the correct format to start with as the Remux seems to have an ETA of 1 hour so far for one file. BTW, I know that some might think I'm mad or that the ETA would indicate that I have a slow PC, but it is a really good spec multi core PC, it's just that when I rip the Blu-ray I dont compress at all and the files are anything from 15 to 30 GB per movie.

If anybody has software that works well to rip the Blu-ray disks to MKV and just load and play I would be SO grateful !

Many thanks,

Jay

PS The MediaInfo for the file is as below:

General
Unique ID : 135113664846949658865217765212936843670 (0x65A5F1FF57A04D12B9D8428A06ADB196)
Complete name : Z:\Movies\Fright Night.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 26.4 GiB
Duration : 1h 45mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 35.6 Mbps
Encoded date : UTC 2012-02-18 10:42:04
Writing application : libmatroska built on Jun 9 2010 13:30:38
Writing library : libebml v1.2.0 + libmatroska v1.1.0

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.1
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 45mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 30.9 Mbps
Maximum bit rate : 33.0 Mbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.622
Stream size : 22.9 GiB (87%)
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

Audio
ID : 2
Format : DTS
Format/Info : Digital Theater Systems
Format profile : MA / Core
Codec ID : A_DTS
Duration : 1h 45mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 3 997 Kbps / 1 510 Kbps
Channel(s) : 8 channels / 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, Back: L R, LFE / Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 24 bits
Compression mode : Lossless / Lossy
Language : English
Default : Yes
Forced : No

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[Cerberus]

make sure you are selecting the " samsung C\D profile " for your device in serviio console.

Hi Phil,

Thanks for the reply I have the Samsung c/d profile selected ... I have jut rebooted everything and tried again and it plays most mkv files without transcoding selected, but a few it doesn't play .... I'm thinking these were ripped with different software so I'm going to try ripping them again!!

Cheers,

Jay

[Cerberus]

no problems im seeing alot of MKV issues atm seems, not so good rippers have decided to use mkv now instead of avi and aint doing them right.

[PMI]

Is there anyone that can advise of how they produce MKV files that don't have this formatting error that requires Remuxing?

Have you tried Make MKV? Still free during beta releases, I think. There is also a decent MakeMKV forum. (http://www.makemkv.com/)

BTW, I know that some might think I'm mad or that the ETA would indicate that I have a slow PC, but it is a really good spec multi core PC, it's just that when I rip the Blu-ray I dont compress at all and the files are anything from 15 to 30 GB per movie.

Not mad at all, but then, I may not be the one to judge...

You are running into the same issues we had with DVD a few years back. Since then, codecs have caught up w. DVD quality, and compressed video is almost indistinguishable from original video from DVD. Importance of playing "lossless" video has diminished with better codec quality and faster encoding times.

Blu-Ray is different, so there is now (again) reason to rip and play lossless video, especially since 2- and 3-TB drives are common.

[Cerberus]

Is there anyone that can advise of how they produce MKV files that don't have this formatting error that requires Remuxing?

Have you tried Make MKV? Still free during beta releases, I think. There is also a decent MakeMKV forum. (http://www.makemkv.com/)

BTW, I know that some might think I'm mad or that the ETA would indicate that I have a slow PC, but it is a really good spec multi core PC, it's just that when I rip the Blu-ray I dont compress at all and the files are anything from 15 to 30 GB per movie.

Not mad at all, but then, I may not be the one to judge...

You are running into the same issues we had with DVD a few years back. Since then, codecs have caught up w. DVD quality, and compressed video is almost indistinguishable from original video from DVD. Importance of playing "lossless" video has diminished with better codec quality and faster encoding times.

Blu-Ray is different, so there is now (again) reason to rip and play lossless video, especially since 2- and 3-TB drives are common.

Rip BD same as u do DVD and you still have very little loss in quality, with that in mind there is absolutely no reason to have any file bugger than 5gb, so the notion that a 15gb file is acceptable is total rubbish.

one of the many posts on web on how to do it properly

http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/2961 ... -or-MKV-HD

[PMI]

I will dust off my bifocals and start reading,