PS4 Browser Compatibility

Hi,
First of all, I love Serviio. It is hands down the best DLNA server around. Imagine my devastation when I turned on my new PlayStation 4 to find Sony had disabled DLNA playback abilities. I immediately thought of using the browser based web app to try and load my videos. No go. The PS4 browser does not have a Flash player capable of working with Serviio. The Browser does work with videos on some sites though so I was hoping there may be a way to add a feature into Serviio that would allow the PS4 browser to play the content through the web browser app. I think it can handle html5... (a user elsewhere posted this about the PS4 browser detailing it's capabilities: http://coding.vdhdesign.co.nz/?p=351 )

In short, please enhance your software to allow the crippled PS4 browser to load videos through the Serviio web browser app.

Thanks!!!!!!

btw, with no alternative to view streaming content on the PS4, adding this ability would be a great advertising feature to boost sales. I would personally create blog posts detailing instructions to "Finally stream your content to your PS4" using Serviio.

[Xmantium]

So what happens when you tried to use Serviio v1.4 MediaBrowser?
http://serviio.org/component/content/ar ... diabrowser

v1.4 is compatible with HTML5 standards as far as i know

[zip]

it only turns on HTML5 mode for iOS and WP user agents.

[bofty]

Is there any chance this will change any time soon? I've got both a Wii-U and a PS4 neither work with flash.

Would it be possible to create a HTML5 renderer profile that we could assign to devices (I know it's probably not that simple), or simply tag a device as an IOS device to fool the media browser somehow (if possible).

PS. Sorry for dragging this up again. I couldn't find anyone asking about PS4's/HMTL5 recently

[spudy12]

Surely you could just detect the user agent like you do for ios devices and then present it with the html5 version?

User agent is supposedly like this:

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Useragentstring example:
Mozilla/5.0 (PlayStation 4 1.000) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Mozilla/5.0 (PlayStation 4 1.52) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko)

[zip]

The HTML5 video player must support Apple HLS format, otherwise any transcoded video will not play anyway. If it doesn't, you could only play MP4 files using the Original quality setting.

[spudy12]

I might be wrong with this but I read somewhere that it did support HLS
Youtube works and that falls back to the HTML5 version which uses HLS I think (from what I read, as I said I might be wrong)

Don't know if these links are of any use
http://html5test.com/compare/browser/playstation4.html

[zip]

Try to display this page. I didn't try it on iPad, but there it should play.

http://demos.flowplayer.org/videotest/hls.html

[bofty]

That works fine on the Wii-U. Not able to test the playstation atm.

Thanks for taking the time to look into this guys

[spudy12]

Try to display this page. I didn't try it on iPad, but there it should play.

http://demos.flowplayer.org/videotest/hls.html

will try and test on a ps4 tomorrow

[spudy12]

Can confirm the link works fine on the PS4 browser.

[zip]

Will try to add it for 1.4.1, please test in the beta

[spudy12]

Will try to add it for 1.4.1, please test in the beta

Great news! Will do.
Thanks Zip

EDIT: RE the Wii, as far as I can tell although it will play html5, detecting it could be an issue.
It appears to use the opera browser and only give an opera User agent string so no easy way to detect it. However I did find this for the wii u which suggests it has this user agent

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Nintendo WiiU) AppleWebKit/534.52 (KHTML, like Gecko) NX/2.1.0.8.21 NintendoBrowser/1.0.0.7494.US/

I will capture some packets and test further when I get some time

[bofty]

You guys are awesome! Thanks for all the work you've put into this

[bofty]

Is there somewhere I can download the beta and test this out?

[spudy12]

No new beta out yet.
Message Zip about becoming a beta tester if you want to help test new versions when they are released

[bofty]

Just wanted to say that with the new update (1.4.1) this is now working flawlessly on the Wii U!

[zip]

Just wanted to say that with the new update (1.4.1) this is now working flawlessly on the Wii U!

Niiice.

Anyone can confirm the PS4?

on my PS4 now I see the mediabrowser, Do I login by entering the password, I see the list of files correctly. But I can not start playback

p.s course I enabled transcoding

[spudy12]

on my PS4 now I see the mediabrowser, Do I login by entering the password, I see the list of files correctly. But I can not start playback

p.s course I enabled transcoding

Does this mean its working now?
Not had a chance to test this yet