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Thread: Sony BDP-S370/570 - Does anyone have Mezzmo working 100% with it?

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    Yes, we started tweaking the current BDP profile to see if we can make it work better, but at the moment most work is going into making the server more stable on the network. However, even we don't finish with the BDP profile before the .14 release, work won't stop on it until it works as good as we can get it.

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    @RMatic: What I have done is used software to convert the video from whatever it is to H264 video, AC3 2 channel audio into a MKV container. Many commercial programs out there can do this (Xilisoft and WinAVI come to mind, but there are many). Pick the cheapest, get a trail version and test it out. You can improve video quality and audio quality as needed by raising the bit rate during conversion. As in Mezzmo, you could use ffmpeg also, but it's not for the faint of heart. Once the video has been converted into an MKV container, it is remuxed into an m2ts file using tsMuxerGUI which is free and quite fast. Compared to the conversion, it takes a fraction of the time. In the end, you've got a file that can be streamed by Mezzmo to this Sony device without transcoding. The original file can be deleted.

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    @dpetr: Thanks for the helpful explanation. I will try it out on a sample video file first before starting out on my movies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dpetr View Post
    Once the video has been converted into an MKV container, it is remuxed into an m2ts file using tsMuxerGUI which is free and quite fast. Compared to the conversion, it takes a fraction of the time.

    Where can I download tsMuxerGUI

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    I have a Sony BDP 570 and I am still fiddling with settings in order to have everything working. I also have a Panasonic HDC-SD707 camera which records HD video to mts files.

    Using BDP 570 Pal profile (with DivX support) I have reached the following stage:

    * .avi files -> I use AviAddXSubs to embed .srt subtitles - works ok.
    * .mts files from camera -> They show as .m2ts on the player, but generally play ok.
    * .mp4 files -> They show as .m2ts on the player, I can play them, but can't rewind or forward.

    I tested all the above scenarios with usb stick and the player can natively play and seek all the files (and show external subtitles). Now I understand it's up to players DLNA implementation whether the subtitles are supported, but I guess .mp4 files should not be transcoded?

    Can anyone suggest what route should i take regarding .mp4 video streaming and subtitles embedding?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bigdog View Post
    Where can I download tsMuxerGUI
    Sorry. I should have mentioned that the GUI is included as a front end to the program it calls. http://www.videohelp.com/download/tsMuxeR_1.10.6.zip

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    So this may be a stupid question, but since I just downloaded and installed this yesterday please bear with me. Where and/or how do you switch profiles?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Morgan1112 View Post
    So this may be a stupid question, but since I just downloaded and installed this yesterday please bear with me. Where and/or how do you switch profiles?
    This is going from memory since I don't have Mezzmo in front of me, but click on "Media Server" at the top of the main window, then select "Media Devices". If you doubleclick on a device from the list that pops up, you'll get another window. In the "General" tab, there's a dropdown list towards the bottom to allow you to change the device profile.

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    Thanks! Much appreciated.

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    I also have a number of issues in my Mezzmo/Sony 370 set up:

    1. All mkv and mp4 that I have tried. Mezzmo transcoded them. When I streamed these mkv/mp4 files from Serviio, no transcoding is required - I could FF/Rewind when streamed from serviio.

    2. When browsing video files from Sony, no thumbnails are displayed, only filenames are listed. This contrast to my Mezzmo/Samsung C Bluray experience, where thumbnails could be displayed.

    3. When filenames consist of Chinese characters, these files do not appear on my Sony. Renaming the files to English do the trick, but I found this too inconvenience. This contrast to my Mezzmo/Samsung C Bluray experience, where files with Chinese characters can be displayed/played.

    Hope these issues will be addressed in the next update.

    wotg

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