Version 3.0.0-a5 is released

[ihatehume]

Yeah, my TV is a bit older I'm afraid. On the other hand, I haven't tried lately so maybe I ought to give it a go. I'll let you know how it works out!

[orgon3]

ihatehume, if you have a smart tv most will play without transcoding. But the PS3 is good for most things

My roommate's smart tv doesn't seem to support transcoding at all, just the TSMuxer streams. It has yet to fail to play something, but will sometimes lag if a scene goes above the limit on its WiFi connection.

[Wolfgan]

Weird transcoding happening lately on my WDTV. My wife wanted to watch a series episode (mp4 file, supported for serving directly) and my WDTV rejected it. So when I started triaging it, I found that the log reflected:

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INFO  2013-09-23 16:22:29.188 [New I/O worker #2] Starting transcode/remux of Bones.S09E01.HDTV.x264-LOL.mp4
DEBUG 2013-09-23 16:22:29.188 [New I/O worker #2] Launching transcode with media info: container: mov / bitrate: 838656 / size: 261886101 / codecV: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661) / duration: 00:42:35.95 / width: 720 / height: 404 / frameRate: 23.98 / thumb size : 0 / muxingMode: null
	audio: id=0 / lang: und / flavor: null / codec: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D) / sf:48000 / na: 2 / bs: 16 / |||0|0
DEBUG 2013-09-23 16:22:29.454 [New I/O worker #2] Creating pipe \\.\pipe\mencoder1379964149454
DEBUG 2013-09-23 16:22:30.032 [mencoder.exe-1] Starting "D:\Program Files\Universal Media Server\win32\mencoder.exe" -ss 0 "E:\zInetTransfer\!(0TV) Various\Bones.S09E01.HDTV.x264-LOL.mp4" -msglevel statusline=2 -oac lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg2:muxrate=500000:vbuf_size=1194:abuf_size=64 -ovc lavc -channels 6 -lavdopts debug=0:threads=1 -lavcopts autoaspect=1:vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=5000:vrc_minrate=15000:vrc_maxrate=15000:vbitrate=15000:acodec=ac3:abitrate=448:threads=1:-v quiet -nosub -noautosub -ofps 24000/1001 -lavdopts fast -mc 0.1 -af lavcresample=48000 -srate 48000 -o \\.\pipe\mencoder1379964149454

So when I saw that the detected container was mov, I checked the file with MediaInfo 0.7.64 and this is what I found:

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General
Complete name                            : E:\zInetTransfer\!(0TV) Various\Bones.S09E01.HDTV.x264-LOL.mp4
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : Base Media
Codec ID                                 : isom
File size                                : 250 MiB
Duration                                 : 42mn 35s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 820 Kbps
Encoded date                             : UTC 2013-09-16 20:06:22
Tagged date                              : UTC 2013-09-16 20:06:22

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                                 : avc1
Codec ID/Info                            : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                                 : 42mn 35s
Bit rate                                 : 699 Kbps
Maximum bit rate                         : 4 835 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)                       : 0.100
Stream size                              : 213 MiB (85%)
Writing library                          : x264 core 138 r2358 9e941d1
Encoding settings                        : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:1:1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=9 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=18 / 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=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=20.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=69 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Encoded date                             : UTC 2013-09-16 19:57:11
Tagged date                              : UTC 2013-09-16 20:06:23
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709

Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : AAC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile                           : LC
Codec ID                                 : 40
Duration                                 : 42mn 35s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 116 Kbps
Maximum bit rate                         : 152 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : 83ms
Stream size                              : 35.4 MiB (14%)
Encoded date                             : UTC 2013-09-16 20:06:23
Tagged date                              : UTC 2013-09-16 20:06:23

Which left me wondering if there's any issue with the mediainfo parsing code somewhere mixing container types?
Thx, Wolf

[Wolfgan]

Found some additional clues on the logs. Posted at viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1168&p=7165#p7165 as I can't upload log files here.
Wolf.

[John Klein]

Just wanted to say this issue is still there with this release.

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=591

[S7eele]

This version is working quite well for me so far both with local media and Jumpy access to XBMC, better than it has in a while. Thanks a bunch and keep up the hard work.