Support for AVCHD Lite (videos from Panasonic ZS7/TZ10 digital camera)

[ULJ]

Hi

I am very new to Mezzmo. Just installed it today to try it out. Howerver, I am having problems at playing videos from my digital camera (Panasonic ZS7/TZ10) that I have shared over the network.
The videos can simply not play. If I move the videos to the other PC, the videos plays just fine. But not when being shared by Mezzmo.

About AVCHD: "AVCHD utilizes MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 (AVC) video compression codec and either Dolby AC-3 (Dolby Digital) or linear PCM audio compression codec."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD

So my question is: Does Mezzmo support AVCHD and will I be able to play the videos? Or is there anything I can do to make it work?

Cheers,

Ulrik @ Denmark

[Paul]

Hi Ulrik,

Can you please tell me to which device you're trying to stream those files?

Also, please post FFmpeg information on one of those files (in Mezzmo, right-click on the file and use the "Get FFmpeg Information" menu item).

[ULJ]

Hi Dennis,

I am trying to stream AHCHD (Lite) videos (recorded by the Panasonic ZS7/TZ10) to my (european) Samsung LED LCD TV UE40C6005 which support DLNA.

FFmpeg information from one of those videos are:


FFmpeg version SVN-r23438, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jun 3 2010 11:03:31 with gcc 4.4.0
configuration: --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-memalign-hack --enable-libmp3lame --extra-cflags=-I/c/msys/local/include --extra-ldflags=-L/c/msys/local/lib --enable-zlib --enable-w32threads --extra-cflags=-fno-common --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --disable-ffplay --disable-ffprobe --disable-ffserver
libavutil 50.16. 0 / 50.16. 0
libavcodec 52.73. 0 / 52.73. 0
libavformat 52.67. 0 / 52.67. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libavfilter 1.20. 0 / 1.20. 0
libswscale 0.11. 0 / 0.11. 0

Seems stream 0 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 100.00 (100/1) -> 25.00 (25/1)
Input #0, mpegts, from 'D:\Anne og Michael Bryllup 2010\Video - Redigeret\00002.mts':
Duration: 00:00:29.63, start: 0.888889, bitrate: 13930 kb/s
Program 1
Stream #0.0[0x1011]: Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 90k tbn, 100 tbc
Stream #0.1[0x1100]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 192 kb/s
Stream #0.2[0x1200]: Subtitle: pgssub
At least one output file must be specified

[Paul]

Thanks for the info - please send a message to support (at) conceiva (dot) com and I'll send you an updated device profile to try for the Samsung with support for those files.

[ULJ]

Thanks Dennis. An message was sent to the above email address.

[ULJ]

Thank you for the email, Dennis. I will try it out as soon as possible and return with some feedback

[ULJ]

Hi Dennis,

Let me start by saying that I did not try the updated profile that you sent to me by mail. I installed Mezzmo on another computer and now it works perfectly. The first PC must have be crappy lol.
One thing that I am especially very happy about is that Mezzmo can show the folders that are shared instead of only the files (you know, holiday photos and videos for +10 years represents some files!)

Thank you for you help so far!

I will do some more testing (I am new to DLNA) with Mezzmo. If everything works out fine I will buy Mezzmo

[Paul]

Thanks - let me know how it goes.

[kate59588]

AVCHD Lite identifies a subset of AVCHD format, in which HD-recording is limited to 720p/30. The 720p/30 video is recorded in the normal AVCHD 720p/60 format, but every other frame is duplicated, resulting in thirty actual frames per second. This frame rate limitation stems from the capabilities of the camera sensor, it's not a limitation of the format (as normal full-fledged AVCHD is used as the storage format).

Video formats that Mezzmo can read

How to convert Lumix AVCHD Lite to MPEG-4 MP4 and H.264 MP4 formats

[ULJ]

Thanks for the information. However, there is no need to convert the videos files (in AVCHD Lite format) as they play (streams) perfectly by Mezzmo.