Sony BDP-S370 (DLNA-compatible with new firmware M03.R.567)

[patters]

On holiday for the rest of the week, but I can certainly sort you out with that when I get back.

[Ralph]

someone who can help us
thanks

[patters]

Here are some traces of successful requests from the BDP-S370 to Windows Media Player. Hopefully WorldofHurt can make sense of them...

It looks like there's a certificate exchange going on (is this using HTTPS?) and I also noticed that the JPEG rendering is really fast compared to when using PS3MS which feels almost like downloading a picture from a modem.

(traces removed now that WorldOfHurt has them). If any other devs want them, PM me.

[WorldOfHurt]

Cheers, patters.

Now I've just got to trawl this and work out what's going on...

I'll post back what I find over the next few days.

[Illico]

Hi patters,
You suggest following parameters for the BDP-Sx7x.conf :

#specs taken from http://www.sony.co.uk/product/blu-ray-d ... nicalSpecs
MediaInfo=true
Supported = f:mpegps|mpegts v:mpeg1|mpeg2|mp4|h264 a:ac3|lpcm|aac|mpa m:video/mpeg
Supported = f:avi|divx v:divx|mp4 a:ac3|lpcm|mpa|mp3 m:video/avi
Supported = f:mp4 v:mp4|h264 a:ac3|aac m:video/mp4
Supported = f:mp3 n:2 m:audio/mpeg
Supported = f:aac n:2 a:(?!alac).+ m:audio/x-m4a
Supported = f:wma n:2 m:audio/x-ms-wma
Supported = f:wav n:2 m:audio/L16
Supported = f:jpg m:image/jpeg

Extract from Sony Technical Specification:

Video
MPEG-1 Video/PS*5, MPEG-2 Video/PS, TS*6 with “.mpg,” “.mpeg”, “.m2ts”, “.mts” extension
DivX with “.avi”, “.divx” extension
MPEG-4 AVC*5 with “.mkv”, “.mp4”, “.m4v”, “.m2ts”, “.mts”
WMV9*5 with “.wmv”,“.asf”
AVCHD*5 format files that are recorded on a digital video camera

Music
MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III) with “.mp3” extension
AAC*4*5 with “.m4a” extension
WMA9 Standard*4*5 with “.wma” extension
LPCM with “.wav” extension

Photo
JPEG with “.jpg,” “.jpeg” extension


The player does not play coded files such as DRM.
Note 4 : The player does not play coded files such as Lossless.
Note 5 : The player does not play this file format on a DLNA server.
Note 6 : The player can only play standard definition video on a DLNA server.

So for me only
MPEG-2 Video/PS, TS, DivX video formats
MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), LPCM audio format
JPEG image format
are support by Sony BDP with a DNLA server.

Why "n:2" on your audio supported format?

So in result, BDP-Sx7x.conf must have

TranscodeVideo=MPEGTSAC3
TranscodeAudio=MP3
TranscodeExtensions=
StreamExtensions=
MediaInfo=true
Supported = f:mpegps|mpegts v:mpeg2|mp4|h264 a:ac3|lpcm|aac|mpa m:video/mpeg
Supported = f:avi|divx v:divx|mp4 a:ac3|lpcm|mpa|mp3 m:video/avi
Supported = f:mp3 m:audio/mpeg
Supported = f:wav m:audio/L16
Supported = f:jpg m:image/jpeg

[patters]

Not sure where you got those specs from. Sony have changed their mind a few times about what will and won't be supported via DLNA, and I think it also varies by territory. The n:2 means two channel only which I think I cribbed from the and Xbox 360 PS3 configs. It wasn't meant to be 100% accurate anyway, especially given that nothing works at the moment.

Anyway, it seems from this thread on the Serviio forum that the BDP-S370 can be tricked into playing HD H.264 MKVs without transcode (I think these fall under its DivX-HD definition). Supposedly it even works with subtitles! WorldOfHurt - might be worth you having a play (and packet capturing from that too perhaps):
http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=326

[patters]

A bit off topic but I've been playing with Serviio and I can confirm that the BDP-S370 does indeed play HD H.264 mkv files over DLNA with no transcode provided their mime types are fiddled back to DivX by the Serviio profile. It's a bit of a pain because Serviio's media library sometimes corrupts when you add folders with too many videos, and it take a while to realise new content has been added (use the force refresh option). Also, the profiles are found in an XML file with existing ones. I naturally assumed I could make a new id leading on from the last (so number 9) but looking at the log it looks the Serviio binary like it only reads in the first 8 profiles.
One observation - it looks like the playback doesn't support seeking with the left and right keys on the remote, nor does it display a progress bar like BBC iPlayer does, or like the PS3MS playback on Bravia TVs. Maybe this is the BDP-S370's fault, but I guess it could be Serviio not being as fully featured as PS3MS. You can only do a ffd/rew picture scan. You do get a progress bar if you press Display.

Anyway - WorldOfHurt, do you want a working Wireshark trace of this? Could be useful in that it has subtitles working on the BDP-S370.

It seems quite picky in the H.264 clips that will be listed. Only ones which are AVCHD compliant (i.e. will play on a Bravia TV) will play so I think that's not more than High Profile Level 4.1 and even the wrong numbers of B frames can spoil things. On the Bravia, all AVC clips are listed, though only the proper AVCHD compliant ones play.

EDIT - I've tweaked the profile to allow it to play H.264 in m2ts files (works well) and MP4 too (untested for now):

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   <Profile id="8" name="Sony BDP-S370" extendsProfileId="1">
         <Detection>
            <X-AV-Client-Info>.*Blu-ray Disc Player.*</X-AV-Client-Info>
      </Detection>
      <MediaFormatProfiles>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">MATROSKA</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVI</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_TS_MP_SD_AAC_MULT5</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_TS_MP_SD_MPEG1_L3</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_TS_MP_SD_AC3</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_TS_MP_HD_AAC_MULT5</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_TS_MP_HD_MPEG1_L3</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_TS_MP_HD_AC3</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_TS_HD_50_LPCM_T</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_MP4_MP_SD_AAC_MULT5</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_MP4_MP_SD_MPEG1_L3</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_MP4_MP_SD_AC3</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_MP4_MP_HD_720p_AAC</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_MP4_MP_HD_1080i_AAC</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_MP4_HP_HD_AAC</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">AVC_MP4_LPCM</MediaFormatProfile>
         <MediaFormatProfile mime-type="video/divx">MPEG4_P2_MP4_ASP_AAC</MediaFormatProfile>
      </MediaFormatProfiles>
           <AutomaticImageRotation>true</AutomaticImageRotation>
   </Profile>

[Illico]

Hi,
With serviio and your previous profile I can see a lot of video format:
http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php? ... t=50#p2516

OK with
- AVI-MPEG4Divx5-MP3
- AVI-MEG4XviD-MP3
- BDAV - AVCL4.0 - AC3
- DIVX - MPEG4Divx5 - MP3
- MKV - AVCL4.0 - AAC
- MOV - MPEG4 - AAC
- MP4 - AVC - AAC
- MP4 - MPEG4V - AAC
- MPEGPS - MPEG1 - MP1L2
- MPEGTS - MPEG2 - AC3
- MPEGTS - MPEG2 - MP1L2

KO for some files
- AVI-VC1-AAC
- BDAV - AVCL4.0 - DTS -> DTS probacly not supported
- MKV - AVCL5.1 - AC3 -> AVC Profile Level > 4.0
- MKV - MPEG4DivX5 - AAC -> don't know
- MPEGTS - AVC - AC3 -> don't know

With PMS, probably a simple "MimeTypesChanges=" could resolved the MKV problem?
I'll try this later.

[Ralph]

PSMS I think is better and easier to configure, we need someone who can fix the configuration for bdp370

[jharry]

I'm trying to do the same thing for my samsung blu-ray player. BD-C5500.