Serviio

Hello!

I just found serviio and must say it works brilliantly so far. What I was looking for was a tiny DLNA server with transcoding capabilites. I recently bought a Toshiba 37XV733G LCD which only seems to handle MPEG2 over DLNA. I added the following profile to the config/profiles.xml file, selected it from the console and it worked flawlessly (and fast!):



Maybe you could add it to the permanent distribution? I will tweak it some more though over the next weeks and I can report back here when I find more useful changes.

But so far, I must say: thank you very much for this useful piece of software! There seem to be so many DLNA solutions, but yours just worked (TM) for me!

Yes this works with the 55UX600U LED TV from Toshiba too, but:
1. Pause works, play again not.
2. FF and REV do not work properly.

Any1 knows what codecs this TV can play naturally?

-Miguel

I have the same problem - i figured out that the TV also supports "mpeg" as targetVideoCodec. When i select mpeg, i can skip and pause and resume etc without problems!

my config :

I figured out that i have problems with 1080p movies. when i use matroska with 1080p in combination with "mpeg" i get synch problems. This works better with mpegts (but here i cannot pause and resume - but its working at all)

Finally i have the problem with a 1080p MKV movie which has DTS and AC3 Audo track inside. I don't know why but ffmpeg returns :

An other movie in MKV and 1080p with DTS only or AC3 tracks only is working. I have no idea why this one isn't transcoding

Any ideas?

Greatings!

Could you enable detailed logging (see signature) and post the line with "ffmpeg -i" command when you start this movie?

Ok, if anybody also has this problem :

if a mkv has DTS and AC3 inside - ffmpeg couldn't transcode the file. I used the program "mkvmerge" to delete the AC3 audio track. Finally the muxed file is working with serviio

EDIT :
to the problematic file i had :

i activated DEBUG and the ffmpeg line is :
ffmpeg.exe -threads 4 -i Movie.1080p.mkv -y -vcodec mpeg2video -sameq -r 23.98 -g 15 -copyts -acodec copy -sn -f mpegts D:\Temp\Serviio\transcoding-temp-6483-MPEG2TS.stf

in console i get for this command :

I hope 0.5 should fix this, but it'll only take the first audio stream (AC3 in your case) to the output file. ATM Serviio knows nothing about additional audio streams.

it should be fine if serviio would take the first stream and start transcoding - but ffmpeg seems to have problems too with 2 streams? nothing is transcoded in this case...
i dont understand exactly the problem but its from ffmpeg here. i believe that ffmpeg trys to find out the source audio codec - if there are two tracks with different codec its not transcodable.

Could you try locally these command lines (post ffmpeg traces) and add output files to the serviio library and test with your TV?
1) Serviio default command
ffmpeg.exe -threads 4 -i Movie.1080p.mkv -y -vcodec mpeg2video -sameq -r 23.98 -g 15 -copyts -acodec copy -sn -f mpegts Test1.ts
2) Selection of audio source: ac3
ffmpeg.exe -threads 4 -i Movie.1080p.mkv -y -vcodec mpeg2video -sameq -r 23.98 -g 15 -copyts -acodec copy -sn -f mpegts Test2.ts -map 0.0 -map 0.1
3) Selection of audio source: dca
ffmpeg.exe -threads 4 -i Movie.1080p.mkv -y -vcodec mpeg2video -sameq -r 23.98 -g 15 -copyts -acodec copy -sn -f mpegts Test2.ts -map 0.0 -map 0.2

Have a look on this topic: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1125&start=0&hilit=monotone

This is what is used in 0.5

Octalus' config file for Regza was the only one which allowed me to properly pause, rew, ff, etc.

It should probably replace the one which is currently bundled with Serviio for the next release.

Hi fellas,

I've got a 37RV753, and I've used octalus' regza profile - this helps me to pause & ffwd video nicely...

What's the best way of transcoding everything apart from mp2 ?

What I'm trying to say, is that if the TV can play the file natively - don't run ffmpeg on the server .....

Can i set an mp2 extension for all files I know to be in this form, then add an entry to the profile ?

or is there something buried in the video file itself that I'll need to use in the profile.

It would be good if I only run ffmpeg when I need to

cheers for any response
9rD

serviio only transcodes when it is required. If you look at the profile that you are using it will tell you if needs to be transcoded. You can also disable transcoding via the serviio console.

Cheers for the quick response Mark,

Here's the profile I'm using




and here's the info on the video file:


I then switched off transcoding on serviio-console -

played file successfully on regza TV without any transcoding
to prove it wasn't transcoding, i ran 'top' on server - no ffmpeg process running.

but then i switched transcoding back on.
played file (again successfully) on regza TV -

I was hoping not to see an ffmpeg process running - but I did - so it looks like with my profile (see above) that it's going to transcode an mpeg2video

Is there an entry I need to add to the profile to ensure it skips the transcoding step ?



cheers
9rD

Try taking out the following line of the profile you are using.



That will prevent anything in an AVI container from being transcoded. The Generic profile does not transcode anything also. So you might want to look at that or see if the files play with it selected.

Check the detailed logging file to see how serviio provide the media to your TV (native or transcode).

I'm on Mac Pro with Snow Leopard and also Lion (separate partitions).
I use a wired connection to my TV which is a device on my LAN.

My Toshiba 55SL500U LED shows up in the Serviio Console with it's IP address and a Device name of 55SL500U.
But it is using a Generic profile. I have the Toshiba Manual specs for supported file formats (I'm interested in video ATM).
Also the DNLA Product Certification Certificate which I DL'd.

In the profiles.xml id=13 is for a "Toshiba Regza". My unit does support Regza.
However Serviio is not providing that profile (so far as Console is concerned.

Shall I make a new profile (inheriting from #1) with the relevant info from the Toshiba manual and DLNA certificate?

(I have actully been able to start a movie but that was using a Video_TS folder. But that is a different topic.)
(I tried running Device Spy under Windows XP which was running on my Mac under VBox but nothing showed up)

respect...

Peter

Arrrggghhh!. I didn't realize there was a pop down. Sorry for the noise.

Peter