Streaming to WD TV Play

**Follo** · 07-14-2013, 01:40 AM

Hello,

I have the new WD TV Play and this Device is not under your Devices in Mezzmo. Which Profile should I use so that DTS is transcoded to AC3?
Also when I Stream mkv files the File pauses every 10 seconds.

Thx

Follo

**Paul** · 07-14-2013, 08:01 PM

Hi Follo,

We have several WD TV Live device profiles. I suggest you try them to see which provides the best performance. We can also create a WD TV Play device profile if required.

Also post the FFmpeg information for the video and we can best advise the right device profile. Right-click on the video in Mezzmo and click 'Get FFmpeg Information'.

**Follo** · 07-14-2013, 08:55 PM

Hi Paul,

thx for the quick reply. It would be nice when you can create a WD TV Play profile because I tested all 4 and no profile transcoded dts to ac3 (transcoding is enabled and pre transcoding is also not working).
What I did was transcodind the file by myself to AC3. This file is now working. I also found a way to play mkv files smoother. I changed the bitrate under the Device performance setting to bad quality but beeter performance.

ffmpeg version N-50460-g393dcbf Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
built on Mar 4 2013 17:38:17 with gcc 4.6.2 (GCC)
configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --arch=x86 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-zlib --disable-postproc --prefix=/home/peter/ffmpeg/build/gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/home/peter/cc/include --extra-ldflags=-L/home/peter/cc/lib --pkg-config=pkg-config --disable-w32threads --enable-zlib
libavutil 52. 17.103 / 52. 17.103
libavcodec 54. 92.100 / 54. 92.100
libavformat 54. 63.102 / 54. 63.102
libavdevice 54. 3.103 / 54. 3.103
libavfilter 3. 41.100 / 3. 41.100
libswscale 2. 2.100 / 2. 2.100
libswresample 0. 17.102 / 0. 17.102
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'J:\Movies\Keep Surfing.mkv':
Metadata:
title :
ALBUM_ARTIST :
COMPOSER :
ALBUM :
ARTIST :
COMMENT :
COPYRIGHT :
track :
DATE :
CREATION_TIME : 2013-07-13 12:55:56
ENCODER : Lavf55.8.103
Duration: 01:31:39.68, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 5700 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1280x688 [SAR 1:1 DAR 80:43], 25 fps, 25 tbr, 1k tbn, 50 tbc (default)
Stream #0:1(deu): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 384 kb/s (default)
At least one output file must be specified

<MEZZMO>: Child process ended with code: 109, ExitCode=1

---> DB Level Info: 41, 100
---> Frame rate: 25,00
---> Aspect ratio: 80:43

Thats my new file with ac3. Please send me the profile, so that i dont have to transcode files by myself.

Thx in advance

Follo

**Paul** · 07-14-2013, 10:48 PM

Thanks for this information, Follo. We'll need a set of logs from you to create the device profile. Turn on logging (see http://forum.conceiva.com/showthread...nostic-logging) and restart your Mezzmo server. Connect to Mezzmo server from your WD TV Play and browse a few playlists/folders and play a video. Then stop your Mezzmo server and exit Mezzmo. Zip up all the logs and email them to us at support [at] conceiva [dot] com. Once we get them, we'll create the new device profile and email it to you to try.