cant pause/FF/REW/skip on samsung TV

[itsmydamnation]

Hi all,

I just bought a Samsung PS50C6500 plasma. Mezzmo didn't detect my TV and appeared to transcode everything. When this was happening i could pause and skip forward/back, not FF or REW. I could handle this but Mezzmo didn't appear to be using multithreading for H264 Transcode and despite my I7 running @ 4ghz it couldn't keep up with a 720P/2000kb/s stream(only just).

When i select the Samsung C profile ( i assume this is what i should choose) H264 encoded (i haven't tried anything else yet) files are passed straight to the TV. But when this happens i cant pause/ff/rew/skip or anything.

im guessing this is a limitation of the mediaplayer on the tv?? if it is , is there a way to multithread the H264 transcode and force Mezzmo to transcode these file types. here is an FFprobe of one of the files i was testing with:



Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '*****.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 1
compatible_brands: isomavc1
creation_time : 2010-04-28 05:16:40
Duration: 02:41:41.76, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2213 kb/s
Stream #0.0(und): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 1862 kb
/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 24k tbn, 47.95 tbc
Metadata:
creation_time : 2010-04-28 05:16:40
Stream #0.1(und): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 347 kb/s
Metadata:
creation_time : 2010-04-28 05:22:11

thank you for any help :o



edit: I will also add, that Mezzmo cant start when there are multiple ipv4 addresses assigned to a single interface (windows 7 64bit). the MezzmoMediaService log has errors saying that it cant find any interfaces to bind to.

[Paul]

Hi,

Can you please send a message to support (at) conceiva (dot) com and we'll send you an updated device profile to try.

Also, if you can send in the logs with the multiple interfaces issue that'd be good as well. Thanks!

[itsmydamnation]

works perfectly after updaing the profile....

cheers

[Paul]

Great - thanks for letting me know!

[NavySEAL]

When I play a MKV file on my Samsung C profile TV, I can click the "forward" button but it only goes forward about 10-15 seconds. I have an updated SamsungLA.pref I was sent from support, and using this it does the same thing. Were you able to fast forward and rewind as normal with your files?

[Paul]

If you hold the forward button down it should start going forward in larger increments.

[itsmydamnation]

since updating to the last Mezzmo and thus replacing the custom device profile i am finding that some high def video are having random pauses. this video is being transcoded but it still happens after the file is completely transcoded.

I can no longer download the orginal profile i was sent via email and i dont know where i put it. ( when you have 14tb of disc space sometimes things get lost.....lol)



FFmpeg version SVN-r26071, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on Dec 22 2010 10:30:32 with gcc 4.4.2
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-ffprobe --disable-ffplay --prefix=/media/windows-share/ffmpeg --extra-cflags=-U__STRICT_ANSI__ --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect
libavutil 50.35. 0 / 50.35. 0
libavcore 0.16. 0 / 0.16. 0
libavcodec 52.100. 0 / 52.100. 0
libavformat 52.88. 0 / 52.88. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 2 / 52. 2. 2
libavfilter 1.69. 0 / 1.69. 0
libswscale 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 47.95 (66893/1395) -> 23.98 (66893/2790)
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'F:\videos\Movies\T\*******************.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 1
compatible_brands: isom
creation_time : 2010-10-19 17:26:42
Duration: 01:42:33.40, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 2531 kb/s
Stream #0.0(und): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 2129 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 66893 tbn, 47.95 tbc
Metadata:
creation_time : 2010-10-19 11:44:48
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 397 kb/s
Metadata:
creation_time : 2010-10-19 17:28:02
At least one output file must be specified


---> DB Level Info: 41

[robberbaron]

my issue is somewhat similar. Mezzmo 2.12 to Samsung C550 plasma. All files were being transcoded using the Samsung C profile (with buffering pauses) until I turned transcode off and pass the AVI straight to my C550. But two different files behave differently and I am interested in why.

[mpeg4 @ 016af2d0] Invalid and inefficient vfw-avi packed B frames detected

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 23.98 (65535/2733) -> 23.98 (2997/125)
Input #0, avi, from 'V:\Movies\MOVIE_A.avi':
Metadata:
encoder : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Duration: 01:55:16.58, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1696 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 640x272 [PAR 1:1 DAR 40:17], 23.98 tbr, 23.98 tbn, 23.98 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 189 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified
---
Input #0, avi, from 'V:\Movies\MOVIE_B.avi':
Metadata:
encoder : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)
Duration: 01:38:06.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 997 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 448x336 [PAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 102 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified

Skip/Pause/Rewind work in movie A, but not in Movie B. Only difference i can see is the framerate.

Is there a manual recode we can do to fix the movie so it plays with FF/Pause. Mainly Pause being so useful. I can set my pc do do a batch of recodes when Im at work.

[Paul]

since updating to the last Mezzmo and thus replacing the custom device profile i am finding that some high def video are having random pauses. this video is being transcoded but it still happens after the file is completely transcoded.

Do you mean it pauses during playback, loads up some data and then resumes playing? What sort of a network connection do you have?


I can no longer download the orginal profile i was sent via email and i dont know where i put it. ( when you have 14tb of disc space sometimes things get lost.....lol)
The device profiles should be in a backup folder that'll be located under the DeviceProfiles folder.

[Paul]

my issue is somewhat similar. Mezzmo 2.12 to Samsung C550 plasma. All files were being transcoded using the Samsung C profile (with buffering pauses) until I turned transcode off and pass the AVI straight to my C550. But two different files behave differently and I am interested in why.

Skip/Pause/Rewind work in movie A, but not in Movie B. Only difference i can see is the framerate.

Is there a manual recode we can do to fix the movie so it plays with FF/Pause. Mainly Pause being so useful. I can set my pc do do a batch of recodes when Im at work.
Yes, most probably it's the frame rate and we'll be looking at getting that implemented in Mezzmo as well.

Pre-transcoding is another feature scheduled for the next major update, hopefully out in Q1 of 2011 :)

[cunyalen]

My TV is LN40C650. I'm using Mezzmo 2.3.1.

I can pause, but I can't FF and REW, no matter using the left/right buttons or the FF/REW buttons. I have tried different file formats, they all worked the same.

The profile is selected to be Samsung C automatically. I'm wondering which profile file is used, SamsungCaptivate.prf or SamsungLA.prf? There is no SamsungC.prf.

[Paul]

SamsungLA.prf is "Samsung C", so it's used. Can you please post FFmpeg information on one of the files that you can't skip and we'll try to find a similar file here to check (or, if the file is not too big, it'd be great if you could send it to us via a site like www.megaupload.com).

[cunyalen]

It seems some files are working now after I tried them again. The following file type is still not working. I'm wondering if it's the problem of the file format. The TV doesn't support RMVB. It is played via transcoding.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


FFmpeg version git-N-28463-gc5dcb3d, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Apr 20 2011 10:16:52 with gcc 4.4.2
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-ffprobe --disable-ffplay --prefix=/media/windows/ffmpeg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --pkg-config=pkg-config
libavutil 50. 40. 1 / 50. 40. 1
libavcodec 52.120. 0 / 52.120. 0
libavformat 52.108. 0 / 52.108. 0
libavdevice 52. 4. 0 / 52. 4. 0
libavfilter 1. 79. 1 / 1. 79. 1
libswscale 0. 13. 0 / 0. 13. 0
[NULL @ 019d21b0] Unsupported video codec
[rm @ 013d6640] max_analyze_duration reached
Input #0, rm, from 'C:\Media\ShuiHu\test.rmvb':
Metadata:
title : [www.90he.com]ˮ䰴[DVD]01
author : v5yy.com
copyright :
comment :
Duration: 00:46:37.53, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 649 kb/s
Stream #0.0: Audio: cook, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 64 kb/s
Stream #0.1: Video: rv40, yuv420p, 720x440, 547 kb/s, 12.05 fps, 12 tbr, 1k tbn, 12 tbc
Stream #0.2: Data: [0][0][0][0] / 0x0000
At least one output file must be specified


---> DB Level Info: -99

[Paul]

It's possible that transcoding is failing - can you please turn on logging (see this thread: http://forum.conceiva.com/showthread.php/419-FAQ-How-to-turn-on-diagnostic-logging) then try that file again and once it fails, stop the server and send the logs to support (at) conceiva (dot) com and we'll take a look.

[cunyalen]

I have sent the log files to support at conceiva dot com.

What I did was
1) Turn on logging
2) Restart server
3) Connect Media from TV
4) Play the Video
5) Press L/R buttons several times
6) Press fast forward button once
7) Press Exit
8) Turn off server

If the transcoding is failing, my TV should not be able to play the video, since the file format is not supported by my TV, right? If the video is natively supported by my TV, will there be any difference about the "skip" and FF/REW functionality?

Thanks a lot.
Alen

[Paul]

Yes, if transcoding fails then the TV most likely will reject the file (unless it does the support the file and our device profile needs updating). Some TVs will let you skip on all file type and some won't - it's up to the firmware basically. Generally, there's no difference in native and transcoded files - they skip in the same fashion.