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[biso911]

thats regular avi i guess
plays on other players, also not 720p and not h264

[Paul]

Not all devices/players support high-def AVIs (with h264), but if you want to try, just change:

	<format id="mpeg4" encode="1" codec="mpeg4" preferredtranscoded="1">

to:

	<format id="h264" encode="1" codec="libx264" preferredtranscoded="1">

[biso911]

same thing with the avi, has to finish transcoding first
BEST thing is MKV

ok last thing, is there a way to only identify as mp4 , but transcoded as mkv?

[Paul]

ok last thing, is there a way to only identify as mp4 , but transcoded as mkv?

Sorry, I don't understand what you mean... Do you mean to pass-through MP4s natively and transcode the rest to MKV?

[biso911]

no i mean the file is .MP4
but the transcoding is actually MKV

like when i did with the old DLNA software
the real file was MKV, but i changed it to ,avi so it can play

[Paul]

You could try changing the mime type in the device profile, but the device/player may refuse to play it after it gets the first few bytes and sees that it's not the described format.

Can you please tell me in more detail, what is the other DLNA software you used and how did you change MKVs to AVIs exactly?

[biso911]

twonky media

[Paul]

So how did you trick it into sending an MKV as an AVI?

[biso911]

just renamed the file from for example video.mkv
to video.avi

anyway i am back to nothing, the resolution is wrongits not 720p

another thing is that videos added to the library from a network, are not transcoded

[biso911]

i kinda made a breakthrough in knowing exactly what is the best file to be played
so i did:

1- disabled transcoding totally.
2- Files that played are 720P MKV videos downloaded from the internet.
3- Some 720P files that didnt work, has DTS audio.
4- 1080p surely didnt work (not something new)


So, what i need is to transcode all files to this format:

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
[matroska,webm @ 013b9a20] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'I:\series\ctu-x264-terminator.the.sarah.connor.chronicles.219\terminator.the.sarah.connor.chronicles.s02e19.720p.hdtv.x264-ctu.avi':
  Duration: 00:43:10.43, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 448 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1, s16, 448 kb/s (default)
    Stream #0.1(eng): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x720, SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
At least one output file must be specified


---> DB Level Info: 0, 0
---> Frame rate: 
---> Aspect ratio:

could you please help me with the profile?

i want all videos except those originally in 720p to be transcoded to the above mentioned details in MKV
including downsizing of 1080P MKV & MPEGTS videos