iPad 2, DLNA clients and transcoding-confused

[cabsandy]

All,
I've came back to ,and paid for, Mezzmo.I have an iPad 2.It is running on IOS 4.3.4 , which means I cannot jailbreak it to use it for the likes of XBMC <sob>. I have a few DLNA clients on the iPad, mainly media:connect and Buzzplayer.Both have problems playing/streaming files from Mezzmo.I have changed the profile setting to Alpha Player (iPad) and the speed to 54G wireless (to be on the safe side). None of the two will play a .vob file (see below for FFmpeg info). However, if I take transcoding OFF for all devices, both clients can work. This is not great as any files that DO need transcoding, I've had it!
Both these clients will play the same file no problems in PS3 Media Server. If I switch transcoding back ON, same thing happens again.What I dont understand is why Mezmmo is transcoding a file that it obviously doesn't need to.Comments would be welcome as I think I'm missing something here! :-)

cabs


ffmpeg version N-31788-g0d4ea7b, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Aug 10 2011 11:16:35 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-ffplay --prefix=/media/windows/ffmpeg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --pkg-config=pkg-config
libavutil 51. 11. 1 / 51. 11. 1
libavcodec 53. 10. 0 / 53. 10. 0
libavformat 53. 6. 0 / 53. 6. 0
libavdevice 53. 2. 0 / 53. 2. 0
libavfilter 2. 28. 1 / 2. 28. 1
libswscale 2. 0. 0 / 2. 0. 0
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
[mpeg @ 018dabc0] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5000000
Input #0, mpeg, from 'E:\videos\action\die hard 4.0\Die hard_com.vob':
Duration: 00:27:05.47, start: 0.045622, bitrate: 23008 kb/s
Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video (Main), yuv420p, 720x576 [SAR 64:45 DAR 16:9], 9000 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 50 tbc
Stream #0.1[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 448 kb/s
At least one output file must be specified


---> DB Level Info: 8, 4
---> Frame rate: 25.00
---> Aspect ratio: 16:9

[Paul]

Can you please confirm that when you turn transcoding off in Mezzmo, the file you posted FFmpeg info for plays on the iPad? It didn't support MPEG2 files previously, so that's why they're being transcoded. Perhaps the newer iOS version or the player you are using are now more advanced in terms of file format support.

Please send a message to support (at) conceiva (dot) com and we'll send you a new device profile to try.

[cabsandy]

Can you please confirm that when you turn transcoding off in Mezzmo, the file you posted FFmpeg info for plays on the iPad? It didn't support MPEG2 files previously, so that's why they're being transcoded. Perhaps the newer iOS version or the player you are using are now more advanced in terms of file format support.

Please send a message to support (at) conceiva (dot) com and we'll send you a new device profile to try.

Email sent to you guys

cheers

cabs

[cabsandy]

Hi guys,
Any update on a specific profile for an iPad2? I know we have been conversing by email but I think others would benefit from this thread having a bump. PS3MS works fine but Mezzmo 2.4.2 still doesn't want to play ball

cheers

cabs

[Paul]

Hi,

We should have a working profile this coming week (once a bit more testing is done). Thank you for your patience!

[cabsandy]

Hi,

We should have a working profile this coming week (once a bit more testing is done). Thank you for your patience!

Fair enough Dennis-I will wait for your update

cheers

cabs