MKV on PS4

[slimjim111]

Hi Folks,

I'm trying to play an MKV from the Mac to the PS4 using UMS 5.3.1. The MKV file according to VLC is an H.264 MPEG-4 AVC Part 10 (avc 1) with MPEG AAC audio (mp4a) at 48Khz. The file as has embedded subtitles (but I have turned those off in UMS).

When I try to play it, I get the error message 'cannot play media file'.

Is the codec above not supported by the PS4?

Furthermore, is there a way for UMS to transcode media when it knows the renderer cannot play a file?

Thanks!

[slimjim111]

Nevermind... figured it out... just using the #transcode function.

[valib]

Can you specify what is the combination you can play from the TRANSCODE folder? We can update the PS4.conf accordingly.

[slimjim111]

I used FFmpeg (Audio AAC/English AAC 128Kbps)

[valib]

Sorry to clear that issue can your provide the log in the TRACE mode when you try to play normally some of these not working videos (not from TRANSCODE folder)?

[layres]

Not sure about this issue. You can transcode it to MP4 encoded by H.264/AAC

[slimjim111]

Hi valib,

Here's the debug log in trace mode.

Cheers!

[valib]

Hi valib,

Here's the debug log in trace mode.

Cheers!

First of all this log is not in the TRACE log level and second there is an error in your debug.log which seems to me that UMS or Java is not installed correctly.

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ava.io.IOException: Cannot run program ""/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java"" (in directory "/Applications/Universal Media Server.app/Contents/Resources"): error=2, No such file or directory

[slimjim111]

Hi,

I know Java is installed on my machine (Version 8 Update 66 on OSX 10.10.5) and UMS was installed by using the installer, so I don't know what can be the issue there.

Here's a new log, I think this is the trace log.

For now, it works with the #transcode option, but ideally it should work using the native file.

Thanks!

C.