PS3 Media Server

by **rboersma** » Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:42 pm

Hi

I have a new model Philips47PFL6907. This tv has a lot of native support. However I need the mkv files to be trancoded, so I can simply choose a subtitle. When playing a file without transcoding it plays smooth. But when transcoding it goes bad. The video stutters sometimes. I run version 1.70.1. De tv is detected with the PhilipsPFL.conf. Is it possible to just use transcoding for the subtitles? It is no nessecary to transcode the audio and video stream.

Best regards,

Ruud.

by **leroy** » Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:19 pm

Hi rboersma,

When playing a file without transcoding it plays smooth. But when transcoding it goes bad. The video stutters sometimes.

The question is why the video stutters?
This can be caused by a couple of reasons. for example:

-> Low system performance (CPU).
In this case the transcode-buffer fills hardly, or the transcode-buffer gets empty with some fast action scenes.
FAQ: Minimum System/Network Requirements for Stutter-free Playback

-> Slow wireless network.
It is best to use a wired connection.
FAQ: How can I fix/reduce stuttering video playback?

-> A too high MPEG-2 bitrate for the tv.
I doubt this, because i tweaked the max bitrate into the config-file with my older (2010) Phillips TV.

De tv is detected with the PhilipsPFL.conf

You should try the PhilipsPFLxxx7 1.0.conf for more native support with your 47PFL6907 (2012) TV.
Replace the PhilipsPFL.conf with this one.

Is it possible to just use transcoding for the subtitles? It is no nessecary to transcode the audio and video stream.

No. When transcoding a video-file with a subtitle, the subtitle will be hardcoded into the new MPEG-2 video-stream with AC-3 sound.

by **muffinimal** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 8:22 pm

Hey Ruud,

I am a happy 42PFL6007 owner and I am experiencing the same problems as you are. I read Leroy's links and tried the PFL. (Thanks Leroy!)

Sadly, with the new PFL, some of my videos still stutter. I tried to edit the PFL and managed to fix some of my movies, but I was still experiencing some problems. I did manage to pin down the symptoms and work out a solution. Wasn't that hard, once I knew what was happening:

Symptoms: transcoding buffer status reaches 0MB and then the stutter begins
Solution: turn down the quality.I have mine set to "keyint=25:vqmax=5:vqmin=2 /* Good quality for HD Wifi transcoding */" currently. I will try some others later. (I had it set to "keyint=5:vqscale=1:vqmin=2 /* Great quality */" earlier.

You can set this in the Transcoding Settings tab.

I am not too happy to turn down the quality and as I did get some encouraging results from my fumbling with the PFL, I will try to work out a better solution. For now, I'll just go for lower quality.

My specs:
AMD Phenom II x3 720@2.8Ghz
4 GB @ 32-bit Windows 7
TV: wifi

by **Halback** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 5:17 pm

Hi all,

i'm a little confused with my new Philips TV 24pfl3507h/12 (2012).
I have another Philips TV (42pfl7676h/12 : 2011) who work fine with PS3 media server.
But PS3 media server don't recognized the new one.
If i forced the PhilipsPFL.conf or the PhilipsPFLxxx7 1.0.conf who seems to be the more accurate profiles my shares folders doesn't appear on the TV. I show nothing !
If i forced other profiles (Unknow renderer, Philips Aurea, Samsung, LG... etc.) i can show my shares folders and i can play some files but these profiles aren't optimise for my TV :

It play .avi files (xvid) but i found it don't accept dx50 in FourCC. Play fine if i only change the FourCC to xvid.
It don't play correctly .avi files with GMC + Warppoints (intermittent black screen)
it Play .mkv files but without Header Stripping or DTS.
it Play .ts files.

My older TV worked fine with all this files (except for DTS). Philips don't do a great job with this new model :-(

I don't know the user-agent for this TV. PS3MR say : Possible identifying HTTP headers: User-Agent: IPI/1.0 UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50

Can someone help me to understand why nothing apear on my TV with the PhilipsPFL.conf ?
Or Make an accurate profile ?

Thanks.

by **leroy** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 11:40 pm

Halback wrote:Can someone help me to understand why nothing apear on my TV with the PhilipsPFL.conf ?
Or Make an accurate profile ?

hi Halback,

I have wrote a new config-file for the PFL35x7 / PFL38x7 TV's according the codec table provided with the manual.
Give it a try.

PhilipsPFL3xx7 1.0.zip: (2.02 KiB) Downloaded 70 times

PhilipsPFL3xx7 1.1.zip: (2.09 KiB) Downloaded 58 times

PhilipsPFL3xx7 1.2.zip: (2.11 KiB) Downloaded 173 times

by **Halback** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:28 pm

Thks,

all worked great except for some files :

.mkv with Header stripping : unsupported audio/video
.mp4 (avc/aac) : unsupported audio/video (the manual say it'll work but in fact no)

If i remux them in .mkv (without Header stripping) the files plays fine.
Is it possible to do a remux without re-encoding for this two types of files ?

Halback

by **leroy** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:31 pm

hi Halback,

all worked great except for some files :
.mkv with Header stripping : unsupported audio/video
.mp4 (avc/aac) : unsupported audio/video (the manual say it'll work but in fact no)

Have you tried to play those files on the TV through USB?
Can you post the "Text" output from MediaInfo for the files that do not play?

Is it possible to do a remux without re-encoding for this two types of files ?

You can try the tsMuxer engine for this renderer, because this tv supports MPEG transport stream (.ts) with h.264 video.
This engine can be selected trough the #--TRANSCODE--# folder.

I noticed a typo with the PhilipsPFL3xx7 1.0.conf
This is fixed in version 1.1

by **Halback** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:31 pm

Hi,

the .mkv with Header Stripping don't play trough USB and they are not compatible with TsMuxer :-(

Code: Select all: Format : Matroska Format version : Version 2 File size : 1.21 GiB Duration : 42mn 41s Overall bit rate : 4 061 Kbps Encoded date : UTC 2012-10-22 19:44:03 Writing application : mkvmerge v5.8.0 ('No Sleep / Pillow') built on Sep 2 2012 15:37:04 Writing library : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0 Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L4.1 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 9 frames Muxing mode : Header stripping Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration : 42mn 41s Bit rate : 3 596 Kbps Width : 1 280 pixels Height : 720 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 23.976 fps Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.163 Stream size : 1.07 GiB (89%) Writing library : x264 core 128 r2216 198a7ea Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=9 / deblock=1:-2:-2 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=18 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=18.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00 Language : English Default : No Forced : No Matrix coefficients : BT.709 Audio ID : 2 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Mode extension : CM (complete main) Format settings, Endianness : Big Muxing mode : Header stripping Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 42mn 41s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 384 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 117 MiB (9%) Default : Yes Forced : No

the .mp4 play well through USB but not through DLNA but they are compatible with tsMuxer :-)

Code: Select all: Format : MPEG-4 Format profile : Base Media Codec ID : isom File size : 222 MiB Duration : 43mn 33s Overall bit rate mode : Variable Overall bit rate : 712 Kbps Encoded date : UTC 2012-09-28 18:30:17 Tagged date : UTC 2012-09-28 18:30:17 Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L3.0 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames Codec ID : avc1 Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding Duration : 43mn 33s Bit rate : 580 Kbps Maximum bit rate : 3 200 Kbps Width : 720 pixels Height : 404 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 23.976 fps Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.083 Stream size : 181 MiB (81%) Writing library : x264 core 125 r2200 999b753 Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=3 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=7 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=3 / lookahead_threads=1 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=580 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00 Encoded date : UTC 2012-09-28 18:30:17 Tagged date : UTC 2012-09-28 18:30:24 Audio ID : 2 Format : AAC Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec Format profile : LC Codec ID : 40 Duration : 43mn 33s Bit rate mode : Variable Bit rate : 128 Kbps Maximum bit rate : 161 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 39.8 MiB (18%) Encoded date : UTC 2012-09-28 18:30:23 Tagged date : UTC 2012-09-28 18:30:24

my .avi divx files (without GMC) play well if i manualy change the FourCC to xvid. Can PS3MS do that for me on the fly ?

Thks.

by **leroy** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:46 pm

hi Halback,

Halback wrote:the .mkv with Header Stripping don't play trough USB and they are not compatible with TsMuxer

This mkv have a Format Profile High@L4.1, according the codex table the maximal supported Format Profile is High@L4.0
So i guess it is not the Header Stripping but the profile level is the problem.

Info from PS3.conf:

Code: Select all: # H264Level41Limited: Set to "true" if the media renderer supports only H264 # L4.1 at most. H264Level41Limited = true

I guess for this renderer we need a option for L4.0 at most.

Halback wrote:the .mp4 play well through USB but not through DLNA but they are compatible with tsMuxer

Because this file play through USB, i guess it can also play through DLNA, perhaps I used the wrong MIME type.
Try new version. (PhilipsPFL3xx7 1.2)

Halback wrote:my .avi divx files (without GMC) play well if i manualy change the FourCC to xvid. Can PS3MS do that for me on the fly ?

I don't know, I guess not. But the config-file give no native support for divx, so (with default PS3MS settings),
MEncoder should transcode these files without the use of the #--TRANSCODE--# folder.

by **Halback** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 1:37 pm

Hi leroy,

This mkv have a Format Profile High@L4.1, according the codex table the maximal supported Format Profile is High@L4.0
So i guess it is not the Header Stripping but the profile level is the problem.

I think it's really an Header Stripping pb because the same file remux with no compression (and other High@L4.1) files work well :

Work :

Code: Select all: Format : Matroska Format version : Version 2 File size : 1.21 GiB Duration : 42mn 41s Overall bit rate : 4 062 Kbps Encoded date : UTC 2012-10-24 12:27:08 Writing application : mkvmerge v5.8.0 ('No Sleep / Pillow') built on Sep 2 2012 15:37:04 Writing library : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0 Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L4.1 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 9 frames Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration : 42mn 41s Bit rate : 3 597 Kbps Width : 1 280 pixels Height : 720 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 23.976 fps Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.163 Stream size : 1.07 GiB (89%) Writing library : x264 core 128 r2216 198a7ea Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=9 / deblock=1:-2:-2 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=32 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=18 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=5 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=18.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00 Language : English Default : No Forced : No Matrix coefficients : BT.709 Audio ID : 2 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Mode extension : CM (complete main) Format settings, Endianness : Big Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 42mn 41s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 384 Kbps Channel(s) : 2 channels Channel positions : Front: L R Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 117 MiB (9%) Language : English Default : Yes Forced : No

and more this file (High@L3.1 + Header Stripping) don't work too (work if remux without compression) :

Don't Work :

Code: Select all: Format : Matroska Format version : Version 2 File size : 559 MiB Duration : 21mn 31s Overall bit rate : 3 629 Kbps Encoded date : UTC 2012-10-12 05:16:15 Writing application : mkvmerge v5.8.0 ('No Sleep / Pillow') built on Sep 2 2012 15:37:04 Writing library : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0 Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : High@L3.1 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, ReFrames : 5 frames Muxing mode : Header stripping Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Bit rate : 3 180 Kbps Width : 1 280 pixels Height : 720 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Variable Original frame rate : 23.976 fps Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.144 Writing library : x264 core 114 r1924 08d04a4 Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:-2:-1 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=0 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=1 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=1 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=40 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=3180 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00 Language : English Default : No Forced : No Audio ID : 2 Format : AC-3 Format/Info : Audio Coding 3 Mode extension : CM (complete main) Format settings, Endianness : Big Muxing mode : Header stripping Codec ID : A_AC3 Duration : 21mn 31s Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 448 Kbps Channel(s) : 6 channels Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz Bit depth : 16 bits Compression mode : Lossy Stream size : 68.9 MiB (12%) Default : Yes Forced : No

Because this file play through USB, i guess it can also play through DLNA, perhaps I used the wrong MIME type.
Try new version. (PhilipsPFL3xx7 1.2)

.mp4 give me always unsupported audio/video :-(

But i saw on the support forum that Philips is looking into this. Hope they can solve the pb.

Thks

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