Panasonic DMP-BDT500 no MKV playback

Hello

I am completely new to Serviio and the DLNA scene in general.
I ran a couple of searches in the Forum but I was unable to locate a solution to my problem (so apologies if this has already been answered)

I initially ran Serviio on my Pana VT50 and it works very well on the TV.
It allows me to switch embeded audio streams and subtitles in MKV containers - Very impressive indeed.

The problem is that the VT50 is unable to surround sound pass-through as it downsamples the audio for reasons unknown to me (I believe I read somewhere that this is due to some copyright issue)
The thought was then to use my BDT500 player as the client as this (hopefully) would be able to output the surround sound I so desperately need.

The BDT500 does register Serviio and I am able to browse throught the folders.
I can even see the MKV files but they cannot be played - Serviio chews on them for a while and then reports that it is unable to play them.
The listed files look as if their play time length is zero minutes.

I suspect that this may be related to player being unsupported by the the transcoding profiles, but as I said I am new to this and I dont know how to build a create a new profile

Please advise

/nano

[Illico]

For surround audio problem, could you check on serviio console transcoding tab that "downmix to stereo" is not enabled?

For surround audio problem, could you check on serviio console transcoding tab that "downmix to stereo" is not enabled?

Thank you for the reply.

I assume that this is related to the VT50 ?

I will double check this as as soon as possible and get back to you on that (I'm at work right now)
In the mean time - do you have an idea as to why my BDT500 is unable to play the Serviio published files it so nicely detects ?

/Nano

Played with this for several hours yesterday and I got the BDT500 working somewhat by assing the Profile from this post to it:
http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=6202
The playback is not perfect due to several complications but at least I can conclude that this is profile related.

Ref. the VT50 - I did some more tests and got the surround audio working by disabling Transcoding entirely.
This fed the DTS sound directly to my Z-5500 perfectly