Problems with some videos when streaming to PS4
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 7:33 am
Hi and a slightly late happy new year everyone!
I'm using UMS for a while now and I'm generally very happy with its features and functionality. However, I have some trouble streaming a few video files to my PS4. The console just reports that it is "unable to play the media". When I force the video through the ffmpeg transcoder, everything works fine.
Now the annoying thing is that this means that in large playlists/directories I have to play the files one by one (since I have to change the dynamically generated transcode-directory every time a video finishes playing before starting the next) so I am looking for suggestions on how to improve that.
Note that I have not found anything that these videos have in common, except that they all seem to be AVC videos with a "High@..." profile and AAC audio. Some are ISOM, some are MP42. Some are 1080p60 10bit while others are 720p30 8bit.
So what are my options to rectify that?
a) Has anyone had the same experiences and can shed some light on why some of these files won't play properly?
b) is there any way to increase the detection of these files so that they are automatically transcoded when detected? If these videos have indeed something in common, maybe there's a way to force them through the transcoder with a config setting?
c) As last resort, is there a way to force all videos through ffmpeg? I see that I can select a "default renderer" and force all videos through that, but which renderer would I choose in my case? Obviously not "PS4"
Is there something like a "dumb" renderer that accepts basic MPEG2 or something?
For the curious (and/or developers), I have pasted some output from MediaInfo on three sample files which fail to play properly here. Maybe someone can see some similarities?
Regards
-Darkstar
P.S.: I'm using a "clean install" of UMS 6.0.0-b1, and the debug log doesn't show anything interesting related to the videos (it even marks them as "fully played" even though they're obviously not playing at all...)
I'm using UMS for a while now and I'm generally very happy with its features and functionality. However, I have some trouble streaming a few video files to my PS4. The console just reports that it is "unable to play the media". When I force the video through the ffmpeg transcoder, everything works fine.
Now the annoying thing is that this means that in large playlists/directories I have to play the files one by one (since I have to change the dynamically generated transcode-directory every time a video finishes playing before starting the next) so I am looking for suggestions on how to improve that.
Note that I have not found anything that these videos have in common, except that they all seem to be AVC videos with a "High@..." profile and AAC audio. Some are ISOM, some are MP42. Some are 1080p60 10bit while others are 720p30 8bit.
So what are my options to rectify that?
a) Has anyone had the same experiences and can shed some light on why some of these files won't play properly?
b) is there any way to increase the detection of these files so that they are automatically transcoded when detected? If these videos have indeed something in common, maybe there's a way to force them through the transcoder with a config setting?
c) As last resort, is there a way to force all videos through ffmpeg? I see that I can select a "default renderer" and force all videos through that, but which renderer would I choose in my case? Obviously not "PS4"
Is there something like a "dumb" renderer that accepts basic MPEG2 or something?For the curious (and/or developers), I have pasted some output from MediaInfo on three sample files which fail to play properly here. Maybe someone can see some similarities?
Regards
-Darkstar
P.S.: I'm using a "clean install" of UMS 6.0.0-b1, and the debug log doesn't show anything interesting related to the videos (it even marks them as "fully played" even though they're obviously not playing at all...)
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