Sony Bravia EX ceased working with 4.1.1 build

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mx5gr
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Sony Bravia EX ceased working with 4.1.1 build

Post by mx5gr »

I have been serving media files from a PC since the first days of the UMS software. It has been a very promising and helpful project with great potential, becoming a swiss-army knife of renderers among many devices.

Among others, I have a Sony Bravia EX TV. It has been operating OK (meaning with some issues but albeit most content could be played to) for many builds now. However, at builds 4.1.0 and 4.1.1 it seems as the support for the renderer has been driven to a halt.

Regardless which format files I try to reproduce (mp4/mkv/avi) to the Bravia, nothing can be played! The devices response is a "Playback not available" as soon as the playback is about to start or (worse) the dreaded "Could not connect to the server" as a result of UMS crashing. In very few cases, I might be able to reproduce such videos using the Avidemux/MEncoder or Avidemux/FFMPeg transcoding combinations. VLC also works sometimes, however after the first minute or so the picture is frozen and UMS crashes.

I tried two files for this post, one MP4 and one MKV. I attach a debug log file for the MKV in two configurations: one with the renderer file as-is with the behavior described above and another with the TranscodeVideo set to MPEGTS-MPEG2-AC3. In the latter case, video starts reproducing albeit completely out of sync with audio and subtitles (all three have a mind of their own!).

Can you please provide any hindsight as playback through DLNA and UMS for this device is now non-existent?

Thank you in advance.

Video MKV metadata

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Format                                   : Matroska
Format version                           : Version 2
File size                                : 4.37 GiB
Duration                                 : 1h 41mn
Overall bit rate                         : 6 131 Kbps
Encoded date                             : UTC 2014-09-09 13:11:15
Writing application                      : mkvmerge v7.0.0 ('Where We Going') 32bit built on Jun  9 2014 15:08:34
Writing library                          : libebml v1.3.0 + libmatroska v1.4.1
DURATION                                 : 01:33:48.333000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES                         : 1345
NUMBER_OF_BYTES                          : 46354
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP                  : mkvmerge v7.0.0 ('Where We Going') 32bit built on Jun  9 2014 15:08:34
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC             : 2014-09-09 13:11:15
_STATISTICS_TAGS                         : BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 5 frames
Codec ID                                 : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration                                 : 1h 41mn
Bit rate                                 : 5 363 Kbps
Width                                    : 1 280 pixels
Height                                   : 536 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 2.40:1
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 24.000 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.326
Stream size                              : 3.73 GiB (85%)
Writing library                          : x264 core 142 r2453 ea0ca51
Encoding settings                        : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=8 / 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=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=5363 / 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                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No
DURATION                                 : 01:41:56.667000000
NUMBER_OF_FRAMES                         : 146800
NUMBER_OF_BYTES                          : 4098832565
_STATISTICS_WRITING_APP                  : mkvmerge v7.0.0 ('Where We Going') 32bit built on Jun  9 2014 15:08:34
_STATISTICS_WRITING_DATE_UTC             : 2014-09-09 13:11:15
_STATISTICS_TAGS                         : BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : DTS
Format/Info                              : Digital Theater Systems
Mode                                     : 16
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Codec ID                                 : A_DTS
Duration                                 : 1h 41mn
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 768 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 24 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 560 MiB (13%)
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No

Text
ID                                       : 3
Format                                   : UTF-8
Codec ID                                 : S_TEXT/UTF8
Codec ID/Info                            : UTF-8 Plain Text
Language                                 : English
Default                                  : Yes
Forced                                   : No
MP4 file metadata

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Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media
Codec ID                                 : isom
File size                                : 263 MiB
Duration                                 : 24mn 23s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 1 509 Kbps
Collection                               : Click
Season                                   : 1
Album                                    : Click
Album/Performer                          : BBC TV
Part                                     : 1
Part/Position                            : 1
Track name/Position                      : 1
Grouping                                 : News,Factual,Science & Nature
Performer                                : (TVC)
Genre                                    : News
ContentType                              : TV Show
Recorded date                            : 2014-09-13T01:30:00+01:00
Tagged date                              : UTC 2014-09-13 10:12:32
Writing application                      : Lavf54.63.104
Part_ID                                  : s01e01

Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 2 frames
Codec ID                                 : avc1
Codec ID/Info                            : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                                 : 24mn 23s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 404 Kbps
Width                                    : 832 pixels
Height                                   : 468 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 25.000 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.144
Stream size                              : 245 MiB (93%)

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AAC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile                           : LC
Codec ID                                 : 40
Duration                                 : 24mn 23s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 93.5 Kbps
Maximum bit rate                         : 95.2 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Stream size                              : 16.3 MiB (6%)

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valib
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Re: Sony Bravia EX ceased working with 4.1.1 build

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Sorry we can't help you without propper log. Please follow the instruction at the viewtopic.php?f=9&t=556
mx5gr
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Re: Sony Bravia EX ceased working with 4.1.1 build

Post by mx5gr »

You are right.. Now the logs are correct.

I played the same mkv file as in the initial post. Transoder findings:

MEncoder: Playback not available (black screen with this message)
FFMpeg: Playback not available (black screen with this message)
tsMuxer: Playback OK, no subtitles (the file has idx/sub subtitles)
VLC: Stuttering video playback, continuous sound as audio
avisynth with FFMpeg: Playback OK (Audio/Video/Subtitles)
avisynth with MEncoder: Playback OK (Audio/Video), No subtitles

I tried to upload the new file to the post, however the site kept asking me to log in again and again..

You can review the debug zip here -> http://ul.to/80uyc0kq
jorgehav
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Re: Sony Bravia EX ceased working with 4.1.1 build

Post by jorgehav »

My Sony Bravia CX work perfect with 4.1.1 version
mx5gr
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Re: Sony Bravia EX ceased working with 4.1.1 build

Post by mx5gr »

Probably the CX have better software implementation regarding their DLNA functionality... Or the renderer file (if you use the same as the EX series) is better optimized to the capabilities of the TV set..

The issues with the EX model do exist and, depending on the file to be reproduced, most times make it totally unusable. That's why I started this topic, attaching the relevant log files.
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