Target Container

[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

[Paul]

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

That's what I posted as my first reply to you on the first page - just take that MKV container and make it the only video container in the device profile and see how that goes.

Please note that Mezzmo will not upscale videos, so if it's smaller than 1280x720, it won't be stretched to fill that (as the results picture will be distorted).