Samsung BD-5300 Serviio 1.4 Transcoding H264/HIGH fails
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:46 pmOn my D series BD-5300 (last firmware issued is May, 2013) There's no point in transcoding "all h264 video with HIGH/MAIN > Level 4.1"
Transcoded file is not accepted by player with a "no supported codec" message Tested with Matroska and MP4 containers. Better to send the native file as is.
Commented OUT the following in C/D series in profiles.xml to make it work:
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" profile="high_10" />
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" profile="high" levelGreaterThan="3.0" />
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" profile="main" levelGreaterThan="3.0" />
Don't know why but it seems Blue Ray player does not like "<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="192" forceInheritance="true">" resulting mpegts target file (it shows up in transcoding folder, in my case H:\tmp, and ffmpeg process runs but BD player does not accept it).
By the way, subtitles in LG profile for this version of Serviio do not work. Even though usage is explicitly included in the LG profile. (Tested my Samsung to use LG profile with one of the MP4/H264 files mentioned above, subtitles did not show up although video was OK WITHOUT transcoding, i.e. no file in transcoding folder)
Transcoded file is not accepted by player with a "no supported codec" message Tested with Matroska and MP4 containers. Better to send the native file as is.
Commented OUT the following in C/D series in profiles.xml to make it work:
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" profile="high_10" />
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" profile="high" levelGreaterThan="3.0" />
<Matches container="*" vCodec="h264" profile="main" levelGreaterThan="3.0" />
Don't know why but it seems Blue Ray player does not like "<Video targetContainer="mpegts" targetVCodec="mpeg2video" targetACodec="ac3" aBitrate="192" forceInheritance="true">" resulting mpegts target file (it shows up in transcoding folder, in my case H:\tmp, and ffmpeg process runs but BD player does not accept it).
By the way, subtitles in LG profile for this version of Serviio do not work. Even though usage is explicitly included in the LG profile. (Tested my Samsung to use LG profile with one of the MP4/H264 files mentioned above, subtitles did not show up although video was OK WITHOUT transcoding, i.e. no file in transcoding folder)