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Ranger187 wrote:

sukh77 wrote:did you try what I posted on the previous page?

I tried it.... Nothing major. Didn't resolve anything to write home about.

Ranger187 wrote:Deleted vizio. Renamed it to vizio.

So yes, I know what I'm doing. Kinda. We need developers willing to help for this one! The typical user I don't think will contribute much.

Ranger187 wrote:Ok, here is what I've found so far and this is my initial post to get the ball rolling.

I'm going to work with AVI files only until I can get that resolved as that's the main file always played for me.

First I'm starting with: American Dad - S01E01 - Pilot.avi, in UMS it shows as an MPG but on my USB hard drive plugged into the TV it shows as an actual AVI.

When I go to play the file this shows in the debug:

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12-01 08:25:48  Started playing American Dad - S01E01 - Pilot.avi on your Vizio Smart TV
12-01 08:28:33  Stopped playing American Dad - S01E01 - Pilot.avi on your Vizio Smart TV
12-01 08:28:36  Started playing American Dad - S01E01 - Pilot.avi on your Vizio Smart TV
12-01 08:28:44  Buffer read ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException error:
12-01 08:28:44  readCount: "576460752303419392"
12-01 08:28:44  maxMemorySize: "209715200"
12-01 08:31:11  Stopped playing American Dad - S01E01 - Pilot.avi on your Vizio Smart TV
12-01 08:31:13  Started playing American Dad - S01E01 - Pilot.avi on your Vizio Smart TV
12-01 08:34:10  Stopped playing American Dad - S01E01 - Pilot.avi on your Vizio Smart TV
12-01 08:34:13  Started playing American Dad - S01E01 - Pilot.avi on your Vizio Smart TV
12-01 08:36:38  Stopped playing American Dad - S01E01 - Pilot.avi on your Vizio Smart TV

Now if I let the TV sit there while it appears frozen, the file will eventually play after something like 5 minutes.

This is what UMS is doing the second I start to play it:



And this is what UMS is doing after the 5 minutes when it ACTUALLY is playing it:



This is the Media info the for the AVI file:



Java is using nearly 1 gig of memory to stream a 174 meg file before it even starts playing 5 minutes later.

Ranger187 wrote:Here's what I've found so far on that AVI file. Keep in mind I'm still working on the American Dad AVI file. That's my baseline test.

If I REM out this in the conf file:

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#TranscodeExtensions=dvr-ms,dvr,mkv,dv,ty,mov,ogm,hdmov,hdm,rmv,rmvb,rm,asf,evo,asx,flv,m2v,mpe,mod,tivo,ty,tmf,ts,tp,m2p,mp4,m4v,avi,wmv,wm,divx,div,flac,mlp,fla,wma,m4a,aac,dts,mka,ape,ogg,shn,mpc,ra,mp2,wv,oma,aa3,gif,png,arw,cr2,crw,dng,raf,mrw,nef,pef,tif,tiff
#StreamExtensions=avi

The AVI file plays INSTANTLY!


Now when I go to the MP4 version of this file DIFFERENT AMERICAN DAD FILE it won't play. Audio and Video not supported <--- Says that on the TV
This mp4 type will need to be corrected and transcoded.



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This file plays fine:



This file doesn't play video, but does audio. It's also an AVI:



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So far it looks like these file types play directly without transcoding:
.avi (xvid/mp3)

These files NEED transcoded:
.mp4 (avc/aac)
.avi (mpeg4-divx5/mp3)

Can someone tell me how I would transcode the mpeg4 / divx to Xvid? As in what I would change to force it to do this? Then I can test that on the TV.