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Posted: **Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:22 pm**

My TV supports HEVC but only up to level 4.0. I have a lot of videos (MKV) that are Main/4.1, which my TV point blank refuses to attempt to play.

Transcoding doesn't work very well for me as my TV struggles with the timings (it thinks videos are all 1 second long, and if I try to fast forward it gets to the end of the stream instantly and skips to next file). Plus I'm loathe to transcode when I don't need to!

What I've tried is to add levelGreaterThan="4.0" to the relevant <match> node in my profile, but this doesn't seem to work and it matches all h.265 streams irrespective of profile level. Looking through the default profiles this attribute isn't used elsewhere, so I assume it's only supported for h.264?

Does anybody have any suggestions how I can handle this?

Posted: **Thu Apr 11, 2019 10:37 pm**

Profiles and profile levels is not supported for HEVC. Perhaps request it via bit bucket?

Levels above 4.1 for HEVC can often be associated with UHD resolutions (but not exclusively). Is you source video greater resolution than 1920x1080? If so, you can transcode based on that.

Posted: **Fri Apr 12, 2019 3:31 pm**

also, can you post ffmpeg -i of the file?

Posted: **Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:53 pm**

I doubt it needs to be encoded against 4.1 as it's only HD, but it is.

Output as requested:

Code:: ffmpeg version 3.4.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 7 (SUSE Linux) configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg --extra-cflags='-fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -g' --optflags='-fmessage-length=0 -grecord-gcc-switches -O2 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -g' --disable-htmlpages --enable-pic --disable-stripping --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-gpl --disable-openssl --enable-avresample --enable-libcdio --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libcelt --enable-libcdio --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libzimg --enable-libzvbi --enable-vaapi --enable-vdpau --enable-libfdk_aac --enable-nonfree --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid libavutil 55. 78.100 / 55. 78.100 libavcodec 57.107.100 / 57.107.100 libavformat 57. 83.100 / 57. 83.100 libavdevice 57. 10.100 / 57. 10.100 libavfilter 6.107.100 / 6.107.100 libavresample 3. 7. 0 / 3. 7. 0 libswscale 4. 8.100 / 4. 8.100 libswresample 2. 9.100 / 2. 9.100 libpostproc 54. 7.100 / 54. 7.100 Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'input.mkv': Metadata: CREATION_TIME : 2016-10-27T06:10:29Z ENCODER : Lavf56.1.0 Duration: 00:44:43.69, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2770 kb/s Chapter #0:0: start 0.000000, end 62.062000 Metadata: title : 00:00:00.000 Chapter #0:1: start 62.062000, end 589.923000 Metadata: title : 00:01:01.895 Chapter #0:2: start 589.923000, end 1029.028000 Metadata: title : 00:09:49.798 Chapter #0:3: start 1029.028000, end 1608.607000 Metadata: title : 00:17:08.986 Chapter #0:4: start 1608.607000, end 2388.219000 Metadata: title : 00:26:48.607 Chapter #0:5: start 2388.219000, end 2639.470000 Metadata: title : 00:39:48.094 Chapter #0:6: start 2639.470000, end 2676.841000 Metadata: title : 00:43:59.220 Chapter #0:7: start 2676.841000, end 2683.598000 Metadata: title : 00:44:36.799 Stream #0:0(eng): Video: hevc (Main 10), yuv420p10le(tv, bt709), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 23.98 tbc (default) Metadata: BPS : 2151891 BPS-eng : 2151891 DURATION : 00:44:43.640000000 DURATION-eng : 00:44:43.640000000 NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 64343 NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 64343 NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 721862679 NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 721862679 _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v9.6.0 ('Slave To Your Mind') 64bit _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: mkvmerge v9.6.0 ('Slave To Your Mind') 64bit _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2017-02-10 05:35:42 _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2017-02-10 05:35:42 _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES _STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (LC), 48000 Hz, 5.1, fltp (default) Metadata: title : Surround BPS : 615646 BPS-eng : 615646 DURATION : 00:44:43.691000000 DURATION-eng : 00:44:43.691000000 NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 125798 NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 125798 NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 206525682 NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 206525682 _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v9.6.0 ('Slave To Your Mind') 64bit _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: mkvmerge v9.6.0 ('Slave To Your Mind') 64bit _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2017-02-10 05:35:42 _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2017-02-10 05:35:42 _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES _STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES Stream #0:2(eng): Subtitle: ass Metadata: BPS : 97 BPS-eng : 97 DURATION : 00:43:26.028000000 DURATION-eng : 00:43:26.028000000 NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 538 NUMBER_OF_FRAMES-eng: 538 NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 31738 NUMBER_OF_BYTES-eng: 31738 _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v9.6.0 ('Slave To Your Mind') 64bit _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP-eng: mkvmerge v9.6.0 ('Slave To Your Mind') 64bit _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC: 2017-02-10 05:35:42 _STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC-eng: 2017-02-10 05:35:42 _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES _STATISTICS_TAGS-eng: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES

Posted: **Fri Apr 26, 2019 5:33 pm**

ffmpeg doesn't seem to output the level (only profile)

Posted: **Sat Apr 27, 2019 2:18 pm**

As far as I can tell, it doesn't for h.264 either:

Code:: Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(tv, smpte170m/smpte170m/bt709, progressive), 720x480 [SAR 629:720 DAR 629:480], SAR 159:182 DAR 477:364, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)

There are some levels shown if you use ffprobe -show_streams, but the numbers don't seem to resemble profile levels.

I've used mediainfo to get level information:

e.g.

Code:: ID : 1 Format : HEVC Format/Info : High Efficiency Video Coding Format profile : Main 10@L4.1@High Codec ID : V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC Duration : 44 min 43 s Width : 1 920 pixels Height : 1 080 pixels ... trimmed ...

Posted: **Sat Apr 27, 2019 3:09 pm**

I raised a ticket for this https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/i ... file-level

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