Device Profile for Dish Network Hopper and Joeys
All,
I have been all over this forum, reading posts and trying to understand how to create a device profile. I've learned quite a bit and have managed to hack together a device profile that s mostly working for me, but I could still use some help cleaning it up and making it fully functional.
To start, I'll give you the layout of my hardware. I have a Dish Network Hopper receiver and 2 Dish Network Joey recievers. In addition, I also have 3 Xbox 360s, 4 PCs and three Android mobile phones. Right now, my focus is on getting video streaming to the Dish Network receivers working properly. All of my devices (except of 3 PCs and the mobile phones) are on a wired Gigabit network. All of the devices can see each other as well as the Mezzmo (2.5.0.0) server.
To begin my testing, I turned off transcoding in Mezzmo for the Hopper. I noticed that several MKV files that I have played video but with no audio. I tried several Divx/Xvid videos and found that they had sound but no video. Lastly, I have several MP4s. Some are standard definition and some are h264 MPEG4s. I put together a profile based off of the Sony Bravia KDL device profile. I also stole some of the information from the Samsung B profile as well as a few others.
My hope is to create a device profile that is capable of the following:
1. If video codec is H.264/AVC/MPEG-4 AVC/MPEG-4 part 10 then pass it through without transcoding
2. If video codec is mpefg2video then pass it through without transcoding
3. If video codec is MP4 then pass it through without transcoding
4. If video codec is anything else then transcode it to Mpeg2video
5. Transcode all audio from all files to aac
Here is a copy of the device profile that I am writing as it currently stands. This profile transcodes everything and does not allow any of the video codecs mentioned above to pass through. The result is very slow performance when transcoding HD content.
Code:
<MezzmoDeviceProfile>
<version>999</version>
<device>
<guid>CA027AD0-82D9-45a0-A876-7A25FB9FD846</guid>
<name manufacturer="Dish Network" model="Hopper" profileactive="1" needstimebasedseek="1" turnoffbyterangedlna="1" needsdlnaprotocolinfo="1" supportsfolderthumbnails="1" />
<useragent>DishNetworkHopper</useragent>
<xavclient></xavclient>
<mezzmoserver></mezzmoserver>
<transcoding enabled="1" minimumstreamingsize="2048000" waitmsbeforestreaming="10000" contentlength="4" autorotateimages="0" />
<devicedescription>GenericDeviceDescription.xml</devicedescription>
<videomax width="1920" height="1080" />
<imagemax width="4096" height="4096" />
</device>
<descriptiondeliveryrules>
<!-- delivery description rules specify what the device will see for each file. A file is considered to be supported if
it matches a format, audio/video codecs within that format and any codec limits in this device profile. Best fit is
if one of the 2 stream from a format description matches the original file. Preferred transcoded format describes
the best quality format a device can play. Transcoded list is all combinations of formats that we can encode to,
possibly including preferred transcoded and baseline. When building a file description, Mezzmo follows the following
rules order: supported, bestfit, preferredtranscoded, transcodedlist, baseline, nonsupported -->
<!-- please note that if transcoding is disabled or baseline and preferredtranscoded are set to no,
then the nonsupported flag is automatically set to yes. If transcoding is disabled, then only supported and
nonsupported rules are checked and used. -->
<supported>yes</supported>
<!-- baseline, bestfit, transcodedlist, nonsupported and preferredtranscoded can be either one of: yes, no, auto
yes = always deliver, no = never deliver, auto = deliver if not delivered already by one of the rules above it -->
<bestfit>auto</bestfit>
<preferredtranscoded>auto</preferredtranscoded>
<transcodedlist>auto</transcodedlist>
<baseline>auto</baseline>
<nonsupported>auto</nonsupported>
</descriptiondeliveryrules>
</avcontainer>
<avcontainer id="mpeg" name="mpeg_ntsc" encode="1" mimetype="video/mpeg" baseline="1" dlnaprofile="MPEG_PS_NTSC" format="mpeg" supportschunked="0" Preferredtranscoded="0">
<video>
<format id="mpeg2video" encode="1" codec="mpeg2video" preferredtranscoded="1">
<dimensions width="1920" height="1080" />
<copyts>0</copyts>
<samequality>0</samequality>
<gop>18</gop>
<bitrate>11000000</bitrate>
<bufsize>11000000</bufsize>
<maxbitrate>24000000</maxbitrate>
</format>
</video>
<format id="h264" encode="1" codec="mpeg4" Preferredtranscoded="1">
<copyts>0</copyts>
<samequality>0</samequality>
<gop>18</gop>
<bitrate>11000000</bitrate>
<bufsize>11000000</bufsize>
<maxbitrate>24000000</maxbitrate>
</format>
<audio>
<format id="ac3" encode="1" codec="ac3" preferredtranscoded="1">
<channels>2</channels>
<channels>6</channels>
<bitrate>448000</bitrate>
<maxbitrate>448000</maxbitrate>
<minbitrate>64000</minbitrate>
<samplingrate>48000</samplingrate>
</format>
</audio>
<audio>
<format id="mp2" encode="0">
</format>
</audio>
<ffmpegadditional>-threads 2 -pix_fmt yuv420p -copyinkf -sc_threshold 1000000000 -coder ac -qmin 1 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -flags +loop -mbd bits -bsf h264_mp4toannexb -fflags +genpts+ignidx+igndts -filter:v yadif </ffmpegadditional>
</avcontainer>
<avcontainer id="avi" name="avi" encode="0" mimetype="video/avi" dlnaprofile="AVI" supportschunked="0" Preferredtranscoded="0">
<video>
<format id="h264" encode="0">
</format>
</video>
<video>
<format id="mpeg4" encode="0" codec="mpeg4" Preferredtranscoded="0">
<dimensions width="720" height="576" />
</format>
</video>
<audio>
<format id="mp3" encode="0" codec="mp3">
<maxbitrate>256000</maxbitrate>
</format>
</audio>
<audio>
<format id="ac3" encode="0">
</format>
</audio>
</avcontainer>
<avcontainer id="matroska, webm, mkv" name="mkv" encode="0" mimetype="video/x-matroska" dlnaprofile="MKV" supportschunked="0" level="100" Preferredtranscoded="0">
<video>
<format id="mpeg4" encode="0">
</format>
</video>
<video>
<format id="h264" encode="0" codec="mpeg4" Preferredtranscoded="0">
<copyts>0</copyts>
<samequality>0</samequality>
<gop>18</gop>
<bitrate>11000000</bitrate>
<bufsize>11000000</bufsize>
<maxbitrate>24000000</maxbitrate>
</format>
</video>
<video>
<format id="mpeg2video" encode="0">
</format>
</video>
<audio>
<format id="mp3" encode="0">
</format>
</audio>
<audio>
<format id="ac3" encode="0">
</format>
</audio>
<audio>
<format id="aac" encode="0" Preferredtranscoded="1">
</format>
</audio>
</avcontainer>
<avcontainer id="mp3" name="mp3" encode="0" mimetype="audio/mp3" baseline="1" dlnaprofile="MP3">
<audio>
<format id="mp3" encode="0" codec="libmp3lame">
</format>
</audio>
</avcontainer>
<avcontainer id="s16be" name="lpcm" encode="1" mimetype="audio/L16" baseline="1" dlnaprofile="LPCM" preferredtranscoded="1">
<audio>
<format id="s16be" encode="1" codec="pcm_s16be" preferredtranscoded="1">
<channels>2</channels>
<bitrate>1536000</bitrate>
<maxbitrate>1536000</maxbitrate>
<minbitrate>8000</minbitrate>
<maxsamplingrate>48000</maxsamplingrate>
<minsamplingrate>44100</minsamplingrate>
<samplingrate>48000</samplingrate>
<samplingrate>44100</samplingrate>
</format>
</audio>
</avcontainer>
<avcontainer id="jpeg" name="jpeg_lrg" encode="1" mimetype="image/jpeg" baseline="1" dlnaprofile="JPEG_LRG">
<image>
<format id="jpeg" encode="1" mimetype="image/jpeg" codec="98" quality="2">
<maxdimensions width="4096" height="4096" />
<maxbits>24</maxbits>
</format>
</image>
</avcontainer>
<avcontainer id="jpeg" name="jpeg_med" encode="1" mimetype="image/jpeg" baseline="1" dlnaprofile="JPEG_MED" preferredtranscoded="1">
<image>
<format id="jpeg" encode="1" mimetype="image/jpeg" codec="98" preferredtranscoded="1">
<maxdimensions width="1024" height="768" />
<maxbits>24</maxbits>
</format>
</image>
</avcontainer>
<avcontainer id="jpeg" name="jpeg_sm" encode="1" mimetype="image/jpeg" baseline="1" dlnaprofile="JPEG_SM">
<image>
<format id="jpeg" encode="1" mimetype="image/jpeg" codec="98">
<maxdimensions width="640" height="480" />
<maxbits>24</maxbits>
</format>
</image>
</avcontainer>
<avcontainer id="jpeg" name="jpeg_tn" encode="1" mimetype="image/jpeg" baseline="1" dlnaprofile="JPEG_TN" preferredthumbnail="1">
<image>
<format id="jpeg" encode="1" mimetype="image/jpeg" codec="98" quality="2">
<maxdimensions width="160" height="160" />
<maxbits>24</maxbits>
</format>
</image>
</avcontainer>
</MezzmoDeviceProfile>
In addition, here is the ffmpeg info on several of the different file types that I have tried along with the results of my trials.
This file is a standard definition avi file that is transcoded by Mezzmo on the fly and plays without issue.
Code:
ffmpeg version N-40301-gc1fe2db Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 3 2012 11:40:38 with gcc 4.6.3
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-frei0r --enable-libass --enable-libcelt --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libutvideo --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib
libavutil 51. 49.100 / 51. 49.100
libavcodec 54. 17.101 / 54. 17.101
libavformat 54. 3.100 / 54. 3.100
libavdevice 53. 4.100 / 53. 4.100
libavfilter 2. 72.104 / 2. 72.104
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 11.100 / 0. 11.100
libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100
Input #0, avi, from 'F:\Movies\10 Things I Hate About You (1999)\10 Things I Hate About You (1999).avi':
Metadata:
title : 10 Things I Hate About You
album : 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
date : 1999
ICMS : Touchstone Pictures
IRTD : PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
ISTR : Julia Stiles; Cameron Fraser; Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Tarance Houston; Greg Jackson (II)
encoder : Nandub v1.0rc2
ITRK : 0
Duration: 01:37:29.47, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1005 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (XVID / 0x44495658), yuv420p, 512x272 [SAR 1:1 DAR 32:17], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 23.98 tbn, 2 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: mp3 (U[0][0][0] / 0x0055), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 128 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified
---> DB Level Info: -99, -99
---> Frame rate: 23.98
---> Aspect ratio: 32:17
This is a standard definition MP4 file that also was transcoded on the fly by Mezzmo and played without issue.
Code:
ffmpeg version N-40301-gc1fe2db Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 3 2012 11:40:38 with gcc 4.6.3
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-frei0r --enable-libass --enable-libcelt --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libutvideo --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib
libavutil 51. 49.100 / 51. 49.100
libavcodec 54. 17.101 / 54. 17.101
libavformat 54. 3.100 / 54. 3.100
libavdevice 53. 4.100 / 53. 4.100
libavfilter 2. 72.104 / 2. 72.104
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 11.100 / 0. 11.100
libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'F:\Movies\American Beauty (1999)\American Beauty (1999).mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 512
compatible_brands: mp41
creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:00
title : AMERICAN_BEAUTY
encoder : Lavf51.18.0
Duration: 02:01:34.85, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1016 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Video: mpeg4 (Simple Profile) (mp4v / 0x7634706D), yuv420p, 512x288 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 883 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn, 30k tbc
Metadata:
creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:00
handler_name : VideoHandler
Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 127 kb/s
Metadata:
creation_time : 1970-01-01 00:00:00
handler_name : SoundHandler
At least one output file must be specified
---> DB Level Info: 1, 0
---> Frame rate: 29.97
---> Aspect ratio: 16:9
This is an example of an high definition MP4 file that transcodes too slowly and studders during playback. The Hopper and Joeys all support native playback of this video stream so I would like Mezzmo to pass it through without transcoding it.
Code:
ffmpeg version N-40301-gc1fe2db Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 3 2012 11:40:38 with gcc 4.6.3
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-frei0r --enable-libass --enable-libcelt --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libutvideo --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib
libavutil 51. 49.100 / 51. 49.100
libavcodec 54. 17.101 / 54. 17.101
libavformat 54. 3.100 / 54. 3.100
libavdevice 53. 4.100 / 53. 4.100
libavfilter 2. 72.104 / 2. 72.104
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 11.100 / 0. 11.100
libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'F:\Movies\Iron Man 2 (2010)\Iron Man 2 (2010).mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : isom
minor_version : 512
compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
encoder : Lavf54.3.100
Duration: 02:04:39.16, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 10294 kb/s
Chapter #0.0: start 0.000000, end 304.302000
Metadata:
title : 00:00:00.000
Chapter #0.1: start 304.302000, end 667.582000
Metadata:
title : 00:05:04.302
Chapter #0.2: start 667.582000, end 1079.952000
Metadata:
title : 00:11:07.582
Chapter #0.3: start 1079.952000, end 1553.009000
Metadata:
title : 00:17:59.952
Chapter #0.4: start 1553.009000, end 1826.782000
Metadata:
title : 00:25:53.009
Chapter #0.5: start 1826.782000, end 2253.000000
Metadata:
title : 00:30:26.782
Chapter #0.6: start 2253.000000, end 2639.635000
Metadata:
title : 00:37:33.000
Chapter #0.7: start 2639.635000, end 3099.346000
Metadata:
title : 00:43:59.635
Chapter #0.8: start 3099.346000, end 3610.523000
Metadata:
title : 00:51:39.346
Chapter #0.9: start 3610.523000, end 4021.516000
Metadata:
title : 01:00:10.523
Chapter #0.10: start 4021.516000, end 4560.764000
Metadata:
title : 01:07:01.516
Chapter #0.11: start 4560.764000, end 4873.283000
Metadata:
title : 01:16:00.764
Chapter #0.12: start 4873.283000, end 5433.551000
Metadata:
title : 01:21:13.283
Chapter #0.13: start 5433.551000, end 5929.338000
Metadata:
title : 01:30:33.551
Chapter #0.14: start 5929.338000, end 6341.792000
Metadata:
title : 01:38:49.338
Chapter #0.15: start 6341.792000, end 6857.350000
Metadata:
title : 01:45:41.792
Chapter #0.16: start 6857.350000, end 7479.168000
Metadata:
title : 01:54:17.350
Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1920x816, 10107 kb/s, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc
Metadata:
handler_name : VideoHandler
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 177 kb/s
Metadata:
handler_name : SoundHandler
At least one output file must be specified
---> DB Level Info: 41, 100
---> Frame rate: 23.98
---> Aspect ratio:
Finally, here is an example of a high definition mkv file that transcodes too slowly and studders during playback. Again, the H.264/AVC/MPEG-4 video codec used by this file type should be native to the Hopper and the Joeys. If it can be passed through while only transcoding the audio to aac, this would greatly improve the playback of the video.
Code:
ffmpeg version N-40301-gc1fe2db Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg developers
built on May 3 2012 11:40:38 with gcc 4.6.3
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-frei0r --enable-libass --enable-libcelt --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libnut --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libutvideo --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib
libavutil 51. 49.100 / 51. 49.100
libavcodec 54. 17.101 / 54. 17.101
libavformat 54. 3.100 / 54. 3.100
libavdevice 53. 4.100 / 53. 4.100
libavfilter 2. 72.104 / 2. 72.104
libswscale 2. 1.100 / 2. 1.100
libswresample 0. 11.100 / 0. 11.100
libpostproc 52. 0.100 / 52. 0.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'F:\Movies\Captain America - The First Avenger (2011)\Captain America - The First Avenger (2011).mkv':
Metadata:
creation_time : 2011-10-15 00:46:17
Duration: 02:04:11.61, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 10075 kb/s
Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1920x816 [SAR 1:1 DAR 40:17], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: dts (DTS), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16, 1536 kb/s (default)
At least one output file must be specified
---> DB Level Info: 41, 100
---> Frame rate: 23.98
---> Aspect ratio: 40:17
Any assistance that anyone could provide to help me get this profile ironed out would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
James
