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MKV on PS4
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:45 am
by 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!
Re: MKV on PS4
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 10:55 am
by slimjim111
Nevermind... figured it out... just using the #transcode function.
Re: MKV on PS4
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 11:14 am
by valib
Can you specify what is the combination you can play from the TRANSCODE folder? We can update the PS4.conf accordingly.
Re: MKV on PS4
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 2:33 pm
by slimjim111
I used FFmpeg (Audio AAC/English AAC 128Kbps)
Re: MKV on PS4
Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2015 8:38 pm
by 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)?
Re: MKV on PS4
Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 8:21 pm
by layres
Not sure about this issue. You can transcode it to MP4 encoded by H.264/AAC
Re: MKV on PS4
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:52 am
by slimjim111
Hi valib,
Here's the debug log in trace mode.
Cheers!
Re: MKV on PS4
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:49 pm
by valib
slimjim111 wrote: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
Re: MKV on PS4
Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2015 7:51 am
by 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.