Serviio

Hello,

I've been trying to get Serviio to play video on my Bravia TV via a wired network and I've managed to get it to play .AVI & .vob files by using Illico's profile shown in the topic "[Profile] Sony Bravia 2010 series (EX4, EX5, EX6, EX7, HX7)for the Bravia EX501"



but can't get it see any HD files. I can see all the containing folders but none of the files within them. The files themselves are a mixture of .mkv, .TS, and .m2ts and most, if not all, can be played on the TV using PS3 Media Server

The protocol info for my TV is

I've run FFMPEG on a couple of files and the output is shown below



Any help will be much appreciated

Strange...
Please check the ..\Serviio\log\serviio.log file ( viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7)

Try to swap with the two following lines:

Illico,

I assumed that you mean that it should look like this



Unfortunately, this appears to make no difference

Thank for your help

EDIT

I forgot the log

Hum, no ideas.

You could try with latest ffmpeg version.
For Windows users (like me), the latest ffmpeg.exe can be downloaded here.
Download the .7z file and replace the ..\Serviio\lib\ffmpeg.exe (rename the old with ffmpeg_old.exe)

Illico,

Same results with the newer version of ffmpeg.

As you've probably gathered, I'm fairly new to DLNA so I hope you'll excuse my ignorance but I've noticed that my videos are presented by Serviio with the DLNA profile 'AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3' but this isn't shown in the 'sink' info provide by Device Spy for my TV ( which I've assumed is the list of those that will work with the TV) but neither is it in the list for your TV. Why did you choose this profile id in your TV profile in profiles.xml ?

Like you, I try to understand step by step...

AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3 is the generic profile used by serviio (generic profile: <Profile id="1" name="Generic DLNA profile"> )
with <MediaFormatProfiles> you can change the profile send to the TV. So I look for a similar profile in my dlna spy sink GetProtocolInfo.
I found two for my Sony Bravia EX500 seems to be generic AVC TS HD.
video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts AVC_TS_HD_EU
video/mpeg AVC_TS_HD_EU_ISO

In your sink you can chose between following profiles (also existed in EX500 sink):
AVC_TS_HD_24_AC3
AVC_TS_HD_24_AC3_ISO
AVC_TS_HD_24_AC3_T
AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3
AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3_ISO
AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3_T
AVC_TS_HD_60_AC3
AVC_TS_HD_60_AC3_ISO
AVC_TS_HD_60_AC3_T
So try to modify your conf file one by one (don't forgot to restart the service) first like this:
<MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts" name="AVC_TS_HD_24_AC3">AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3</MediaFormatProfile>

Could you try these samples files:
http://www.divx.com/en/electronics/solu ... s-hd/video
GIJoe, Iron_Man_2, Up_in_the_Air...

I've downloaded Iron Man 2 & G I Joe and tried them with all 9 settings as you suggested. None worked.

Every time I get the message 'Temporarily cannot access the server. Please try again later'

It does this however many retries I make.

WRT the profiles such as 'AVC_TS_HD_24_AC3' have you any idea where I can find an explanation of what each one represents. I've serched the web using several criteria but can't find anything meaningful.

Thanks for the help & suggestions so far.

When I tested the 2 downloaded videos , I'd forgotten that the server service had to be stopped and restarted after each change (I'd used the on/off button on the console page instead) so I've re-done the tests. The result were the same for the 2 files but after testing with other video files (with the AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3_ISO profile) , I've noticed that for MKV files with H264/DTS the files will play if they are encoded in a 16:9 aspect ratio. Any MKVs with H264/DTS that don't have this aspect ratio will play audio but the video is either a blank screen or a badly smudged stationary image. MKVs with H264/A52(AVC) display the message 'Temporarily cannot access the server, Try Later' message. MP4 file also display the same message. M2TS files display the message 'Playback not available'.
If I switch to the AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3_T profile, then all the MKVs that previously played display the message 'Playback not available' BUT all the M2TS files now play. Similarly with the AVC_TS_HD_50_AC3 profile.

Any idea how I might use a combination of profiles to get Serviio to play an increased number of files ?

By the way, neither GI Joe nor Iron Man 2 have a 16:9 aspect ratio.

Did you ever work out your issues?

I ask selfishly because I have a Bravia Bluray player that is very similar to your device. I have the BDP-S570.

I was hoping I could borrow your profile as a starting point?