Serviio with 2011 Bravia TV

Hi

Newbie posting, so first of all thanks for some great information in the forum pages. I hope I'm not asking a question that has been posted before -I have tried searching for an answer but can't seem to find anything that directly sorts my problem out so here goes...

I am using the latest version of serviio with a pc which is running Windows 7. I had a 2010 Sony Bravia KDL40EX403 connected and I could see the specified files and folder on my network with no streaming issues at all.

I have several folders set up for both video, music and photo.

All folders played well with the Sony KDL40EX403 straight from installation of serviio without a problem.

However, I have just purchased a 2011 Bravia - Sony KDL40CX523 and again this is connected to my network.

The problem I have seems to stem from the 2011 Sony. One video folder contains approximately 1900 mpg files which were transcoded in Adobe Premiere Pro 4. These files play fine on the 2010 Sony with Serviio but on the 2011 Sony, there is approximately 1/2 second occasionally of mis-stuttering to sound which results in an error. The video streams perfectly but the audio doesn't.

I changed the profile 9 config.xml profile from the packaged profile to the recommended 2010 Bravia profile 9 on the forums to see whether this resolved the problem with the 2011 Bravia but it didn't. Periodically when playing video from the folder the 2011 Bravia still continues to give this sound anomally.

I believed that the 2011 Bravia range had extended codec compatability so why would it be that the file streams on the network fine with 2010 Bravia but not on 2011 Bravia?

Yesterday, I also updated the 2011 Bravia software from the factory installed and downloaded a new update but this did not change anything at all - every time video files are played on the 2011 Bravia this strange 1/2 second anomally plays periodically.

Has anyone else had any similar sort of experience with the 2011 Bravia and did they find a solution? Can anyone suggest anything else to try?

The pc used is a Core-i3 with 6 meg ram running Windows 7 and has Windows Media Player 12 installed too.

Thanks in advance and hoping someone may be able to help as unfortunately a call to Sony's technical team was no use at all and whilst I have very limited knowledge, they appeared to have far less.

Cheers.

[Illico]

Interesting for 2010 and 2011 Sony models comparison...thanks.

Do you have same installation for your both TV, I mean same network bandwidth, same connection type (cable or Wifi) ?
Do you fix IP addresses of your two Sony devices?
Does Sony profile automatically selected on the console for both Sony devices?
Could you provide GetProtocolInfo sink result of your KDL40CX523 model (see my signature link about supported format)?
Please provide details information about the movie that work fine on 2010 and not on 2011 model with following "ffmpeg -i" command line result (also see my signature link).

Thanks

Interesting for 2010 and 2011 Sony models comparison...thanks.

Do you have same installation for your both TV, I mean same network bandwidth, same connection type (cable or Wifi) ?
Do you fix IP addresses of your two Sony devices?
Does Sony profile automatically selected on the console for both Sony devices?
Could you provide GetProtocolInfo sink result of your KDL40CX523 model (see my signature link about supported format)?
Please provide details information about the movie that work fine on 2010 and not on 2011 model with following "ffmpeg -i" command line result (also see my signature link).

Thanks

Thanks for replying. Slightly different installation but in some ways better advantage for the Sony 2011 Bravia. The Sony KDL40EX403 is connected via a comtrend 200mbps to my home network as this TV is in the bedroom.

The Sony KDL40CX523 is connected directly via ethernet connection to my Virgin Superhub - which has 30meg download and 3meg upload limits.

Both TV mac addresses have been given static IP addresses - Sony KDL40CX523 has 192.168.0.7 and Sony KDL40EX403 has 192.168.0.11.

The Sony profile for both tv's did not automatically set, it came up with generic - so the mac address and IP address for both tv's was assigned to Serviio.

I'll get the other information you requested later today and post back. Thanks in the meantime for answering

I have the exact same TV 40cx520. My dilemma is a bit different, on certain h264 mp4 files it plays file for the first 30 minutes then the audio seems to be fine but the video would seem to pause-then-fast-forward again and pause-then-fastforward. Always around the 30 minute mark. I hope theres a future firmware to fix this.

Anything encoded using the x264 library seems to play fine. One other quirkiness is it doesn't support subtitles over dlna but it does on USB (mpeg2+avi+srt combination).

I'm not sure if this will help but I've modified Illico's 2011 profile and added some lines so that AVI's and MKV's would play. Might want to try this and see if it helps.

  Code:

 
<Profile id="14" name="Sony Bravia 2011 temp" extendsProfileId="1">
      <Detection>
         <UPnPSearch>
            <FriendlyName>BRAVIA.*</FriendlyName>
         </UPnPSearch>
      </Detection>
      <MediaFormatProfiles>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts" name="AVC_TS_HD_24_AC3,AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3,AVC_TS_HD_60_AC3,AVC_TS_HD_EU">AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts" name="AVC_TS_HD_24_AC3,AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3,AVC_TS_HD_60_AC3,AVC_TS_HD_EU">AVC_TS_MP_SD_AC3</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts" name="AVC_TS_HD_24_AC3_T,AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3_T,AVC_TS_HD_60_AC3_T,AVC_TS_HD_EU_T">AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3_T</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts" name="AVC_TS_HD_24_AC3_T,AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3_T,AVC_TS_HD_60_AC3_T,AVC_TS_HD_EU_T">AVC_TS_MP_SD_AC3_T</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/mpeg" name="AVC_TS_HD_24_AC3_ISO,AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3_ISO,AVC_TS_HD_60_AC3_ISO,AVC_TS_HD_EU_ISO">AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3_ISO</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/mpeg" name="AVC_TS_HD_24_AC3_ISO,AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3_ISO,AVC_TS_HD_60_AC3_ISO,AVC_TS_HD_EU_ISO">AVC_TS_MP_SD_AC3_ISO</MediaFormatProfile>
      </MediaFormatProfiles>
      <Transcoding>
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384">
            <Matches container="matroska" vCodec="h264" />
         <Matches container="avi" vCodec="h264" />
         </Video>
         <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="192">
            <Matches container="matroska" />         
         </Video>
       <Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="384">
            <Matches container="asf" />
            <Matches container="avi" />
            <Matches container="matroska" />
            <Matches container="flv" />
         </Video>
      </Transcoding>
   </Profile>