Samsung HT-6500W and .wtv files

[beeke01]

Hello,

The Samsung HT-6500W is on the floor above the HTPC where I record and subsequently stream to. This is done via Wireless N and overall the signal and throughput are quite good. I have no issues streaming 1080p items that don't require transcoding.

However the ClearQAM recordings I have done don't seem to transcode as smoothly as I hoped on my Core i3-2105 (3.1 GHz, Dual Core, 2 Hyper Threads).

I played with multiple different profiles through trial and error and found that if I set profile to "Sony Google TV" and set the Device Settings > Edit Device > Performance Tab to Max Video Size to 1080i (1280x720) I can transcode and stream to this system without a problem. It's strange though because this "Sony Google TV" profile seems largely commented out for the relevant sections (at least I think so). But doing this I notice with this configuration that playing non-transcoded files (.mkv, .avi) I am properly able to FF/REV.

If I set this device to the "Samsung BDP 3D" (which seems to be a closer profile match) my .wtv recordings stutter every 10s or so regardless of settings (played for hours with items on performance tab, as well as manually editing the device profile).

Here is the file I am trying to play:

ffmpeg version N-33781-g35674a2, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Oct 19 2011 10:31:16 with gcc 4.6.1
  configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/media/ffmpeg --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/dennis/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/dennis/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config
  libavutil    51. 22. 0 / 51. 22. 0
  libavcodec   53. 21. 0 / 53. 21. 0
  libavformat  53. 16. 1 / 53. 16. 1
  libavdevice  53.  4. 0 / 53.  4. 0
  libavfilter   2. 44. 0 /  2. 44. 0
  libswscale    2.  1. 0 /  2.  1. 0
[wtv @ 015F83E0] parser not found for codec dvb_teletext, packets or times may be invalid.
[mpeg2video @ 03011B60] mpeg_decode_postinit() failure
    Last message repeated 3 times
Input #0, wtv, from 'C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\The Middle_WTAEDT_2011_11_16_19_58_00.wtv':
  Metadata:
    WM/MediaClassPrimaryID: db9830bd-3ab3-4fab-8a371a995f7ff74b
    WM/MediaClassSecondaryID: ba7f258a-62f7-47a9-b21f4651c42a000e
    Title           : The Middle
    WM/SubTitle     : The Play
    WM/SubTitleDescription: Frankie and Sue are cast in a community theater production of ``The Wizard of Oz''; Brick invites his quirky uncle (Norm Macdonald) to attend Special Friends Day at school.
    genre           : Comedy;Series
    WM/OriginalReleaseTime: 0
    WM/MediaCredits : Patricia Heaton/Neil Flynn/Charlie McDermott/Eden Sher/Atticus Shaffer;Eyal Gordin;;Norm MacDonald/Chris Kattan/Harry Groener/Jill Basey/Jenny Lerner
    service_provider: WTAEDT
    service_name    : WTAEDT (WTAE-DT)
    WM/MediaNetworkAffiliation: ABC Affiliate
    WM/MediaOriginalChannel: 4
    WM/MediaOriginalChannelSubNumber: 1
    WM/MediaOriginalBroadcastDateTime: 2011-11-16T05:00:00Z
    WM/MediaOriginalRunTime: 14772733250
    WM/MediaIsStereo: true
    WM/MediaIsRepeat: false
    WM/MediaIsLive  : false
    WM/MediaIsTape  : false
    WM/MediaIsDelay : false
    WM/MediaIsSubtitled: false
    WM/MediaIsMovie : false
    WM/MediaIsPremiere: false
    WM/MediaIsFinale: false
    WM/MediaIsSAP   : false
    WM/MediaIsSport : false
    WM/ParentalRating: TV-PG
    WM/Provider     : MediaCenterDefault
    WM/VideoClosedCaptioning: true
    WM/WMRVEncodeTime: 2011-11-17 01:08:22
    WM/WMRVSeriesUID: !MCSeries!01158119
    WM/WMRVServiceID: !MCService!28458684
    WM/WMRVProgramID: !MCProgram!265911403
    WM/WMRVRequestID: 0
    WM/WMRVScheduleItemID: 0
    WM/WMRVQuality  : 3
    WM/WMRVOriginalSoftPrePadding: 619
    WM/WMRVOriginalSoftPostPadding: 180
    WM/WMRVHardPrePadding: -499
    WM/WMRVHardPostPadding: 0
    WM/WMRVATSCContent: true
    WM/WMRVDTVContent: true
    WM/WMRVHDContent: true
    Duration        : 1010704813
    WM/WMRVEndTime  : 2011-11-17 01:10:03
    WM/WMRVBitrate  : 20.971520
    WM/WMRVKeepUntil: -1
    WM/WMRVActualSoftPrePadding: 98
    WM/WMRVActualSoftPostPadding: -1196
    WM/WMRVContentProtected: false
    WM/WMRVContentProtectedPercent: 0
    WM/WMRVExpirationSpan: 9223372036854775807
    WM/WMRVInBandRatingSystem: 255
    WM/WMRVInBandRatingLevel: 255
    WM/WMRVInBandRatingAttributes: 0
    WM/WMRVWatched  : false
    WM/MediaThumbWidth: 352
    WM/MediaThumbHeight: 198
    WM/MediaThumbStride: 1056
    WM/MediaThumbRet: 0
    WM/MediaThumbRatingSystem: 9
    WM/MediaThumbRatingLevel: 10
    WM/MediaThumbRatingAttributes: 0
    WM/MediaThumbAspectRatioX: 16
    WM/MediaThumbAspectRatioY: 9
    WM/MediaThumbTimeStamp: 4630367048197962570
    WM/MediaThumbType: 3
  Duration: 00:01:41.11, start: 213.990164, bitrate: 14870 kb/s
    Stream #0:0[0x33]: Subtitle: dvb_teletext
    Stream #0:1[0x34]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), s16, 384 kb/s
    Stream #0:2[0x35]: Video: mpeg2video (Main), yuv420p, 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 38810 kb/s, 35.26 fps, 29.97 tbr, 10000k tbn, 59.94 tbc
    Stream #0:3[0x0]: Attachment: mjpeg
    Metadata:
      title           : TV Thumbnail
At least one output file must be specified


---> DB Level Info: 4, 4
---> Frame rate: 35.26
---> Aspect ratio: 16:9

Any assistance or recommendation would be much appreciated as I am kind of out of ideas on how to make this work a bit more smoothly. (I am ok with reencoding at 1080i for these if required, but it didn't seem the setting on performance tab made any difference to the actual problem).

Thanks!

[Paul]

The two profiles will encode this file differently. I'd recommend resetting those performance settings back to their defaults, then please enable logging (see this thread: http://forum.conceiva.com/showthread...nostic-logging), delete transcoded files and try playing this file using one profile first and then the other. After that please send in both logs to support and we'll sort it out.

It'd be great if you could send in the file as well, if it's larger than 10 MBs, please upload it to www.megaupload.com or a similar site.