Serviio

I have a Sony BDP-S370 and when I go to view my pictures, gif and png files cannot be rendered and displayed. I know that this model only supports jpeg files natively but I've tried mezzmo and it seems to have no problem with being able to display the gif and png files.

I've attached a small copy of log files from both mezzmo and serviio and maybe there is something in those that can help.

BTW, in the logs my computer = 192.168.1.100 & my sony = 192.168.1.102

What you will probable have to do is to transcode the images so that you can see them on your screen. Can you post the information on the images.

Those are automatically transcoded to jpeg, as per the log:



Can you try AV Media Center (Intel tools), browse to the image, get the item's properties and open the Content URI in a web browser... it should display the image (as jpeg)

I think you meant AV Media Controller.

With serviio, this is what I get:

With mezzmo, this is what I get:

As you can see there are a few differences.

1. Notice that the protocol info of resource #1 under serviio is referring to this file as a gif where mezzmo's resource #1 is referring to it as a jpeg. I'll assume that the resource that has the file size included would be the one that is being used.
2. In the DLNA flags value, serviio has a 'D' as the third byte versus mezzmo having a 'B' instead. I don't know the significance of that value but I don't feel that it applies here.
3. Oddly, mezzmo has the file size as around 16MB where serviio reports the size correctly.

BTW, when I open the URL's from either serviio or mezzmo I cannot save the picture as anything other than a png or bmp file. So, I'm not sure on how to verify that the picture is actually a jpeg.

any DLNA server can serve as many resources as it can and it's up to the client to pick the format it wants. From the log I can see it picks the JPEG resource, it transcodes it into JPEG, but looks like your TV doesn't like that. That's why I asked to try opening the file in web browser. Does that work?

From my quote above:I can successfully open the images in the web browser by clicking on the content URI but when I right-click on the image and select save-as, I can only save the image as either a png or bmp file.

Could the problem be with serviio's jpeg resource not having a size attribute?

Should not

Is there anything that you can suggest for me to try or any other info that you need?

I know that I can convert the few troublesome files to jpeg but I'm using them as test files to test the capabilities of various DLNA servers and devices.

I'm looking forward to testing the v6 beta soon!!

UPDATE: okay, I've been able to get my Sony Blu-ray player to display gif and png files by adding these lines to the sony profile:The problem that I'm now having is the pictures of these file types are a bit grainy when displayed on the tv. I have noticed that mezzmo uses a DLNA profile of JPEG_MED on gif and png files and only uses JPEG_LRG on native jpeg files.

Serviio is using JPEG_LRG for these image file types. If you change it to use JPEG_MED on gif and png files, would that allow the picture to be displayed more clearly?

JPEG_MED vs JPEG_LRG is only in resolution, MED max is i think 1024x768.

BTW, the change you made doesn't make much sense. You first define all JPEG_LRG files to be displayed as GIF and then as PNG. The first definition (GIF) is overwritten by the PNG one. So in the end you end up with all native JPEGs (JPEG_LRG) and transcoded GIFs/PNGs to be described as PNG.

I did notice something odd when I was making these additions. When I add just this one line: I have both gif and png files being displayed but grainy. All of my other native jpegs are unaffected in the way they're displayed.

I'll try some other profile edits to see if I can improve the display. As you can see from the log, without this added profile line my unit never displays the gif/png image but just keeps requesting the file over and over.

Here is an oddity. It doesn't seem to matter of what label that I use, the gif/png files are displayed but are still grainy. For example:

As I've mentioned earlier, if I omit this line then the unit just keeps trying to display the image over and over. Maybe logs with and without this added line will provide some sort of clue as to what is happening.

I see something interesting.

When I add the mime-type line to the profile I get this:

When I omit the line then I get this:Retrieving and then having the smaller cover image enlarged on my tv screen would explain why it looks so grainy.

I've attached copies of the log files that have the mime line added [serviio (mod).log] and without [serviio (org).log]. I hope that this sheds some light on the problem.