DLNA profile documentation

[shadowtheimpure 12]

Searching the knowledgebase, I was unable to locate documentation for configuring custom DLNA profiles. The interface is somewhat enigmantic. Does this documentation exist or is it still in the works? 

[Abobader 3464]

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[Luke 42080]

Hi, this is on our to do list to improve.

Question. what would you like to create a profile for?

[shadowtheimpure 12]

A Philips 'smart TV' from a number of years ago (Model 55PFL5402/F7). It struggles with playback via DLNA in the default configuration. I've attached the Video section from the manual. What I really want to accomplish with a custom profile is to engage a transcode to a compatible format rather than failing to start playback. 

[shadowtheimpure 12]

Here is some information I harvested from a log file with the server running in debug mode if that will help:

2024-06-04 16:51:29.813 Info Server: http/1.1 HEAD http://10.0.0.2/videos/7561888/original.mkv?DeviceProfileId=73a79816aaf147f8aa792a5cb3ffd40a&DeviceId=20e0a275a67ba7791f32f287f4c014fa&MediaSourceId=78161a2dd0b16c966c97b05a033d5408&PlaySessionId=e93c33c2f8174b3bbd6a8ce4eb6182cf&api_key=x_secret9_x. Connection=close, Host=10.0.0.2, User-Agent=AwoX, Date=Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:51:30 GMT, Content-Length=0, getcontentFeatures.dlna.org=1
2024-06-04 16:51:29.814 Debug SqliteItemRepository: GetitemById Episode 7561888 D:\Dual Audio Anime\hack (2002)\Season 01\hack - S01E01 - Role Play SDTV.mkv
2024-06-04 16:51:29.816 Debug DLNA: DeviceProfileResolver resolved profile 73a79816aaf147f8aa792a5cb3ffd40a
2024-06-04 16:51:29.829 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to host6. Time: 16ms. HEAD http://10.0.0.2/videos/7561888/original.mkv?DeviceProfileId=73a79816aaf147f8aa792a5cb3ffd40a&DeviceId=20e0a275a67ba7791f32f287f4c014fa&MediaSourceId=78161a2dd0b16c966c97b05a033d5408&PlaySessionId=e93c33c2f8174b3bbd6a8ce4eb6182cf&api_key=x_secret9_x

 

Edited June 5, 2024 by shadowtheimpure
Code box for log entries

[Luke 42080]

OK so your first step is to create a profile and then update the Identification sections so that your new profile is used. Have you gotten that far?

[shadowtheimpure 12]

I have, and I know it has latched onto the profile properly because it stopped showing the generic 'DLNA' account library that I have set up. I did that as a validation step so I could tell at a glance. It's still not playing back with any reliability, but at least I've gotten that far. 

[Luke 42080]

OK so what you need to do is remove formats from the direct play section and that will cause it to transcode. And let’s hope  that it likes the transcoding format.

[shadowtheimpure 12]

So, have no formats in direct play and define a transcoding format that complies with the chart from the manual?

[Luke 42080]

Exactly.

[shadowtheimpure 12]

Alright, I'll give it a go when I get home. Might have to play around with it a bit because I don't know exactly what syntax the interface wants exactly to define containers and codecs. 

[Luke 42080]

Let us know how you get on. Thanks.

[shadowtheimpure 12]

Some files are playing, others are showing up with a playtime of 00:00:00 and throw an error when playback is attempted. I'm attaching a truncated version of my log file starting when I began testing and the output profile that I configured. 

embyserver-log.txt

[shadowtheimpure 12]

The file on the left does not play, the file on the right does.

[Luke 42080]

Yea the nature of this is that it’s all trial and error to find options that the TV will be hair I’m happy with.

[shadowtheimpure 12]

It just seems odd that some files play without a problem while others throw an error when all of them should be transcoding with the same settings since there are no direct play profiles set up.

Do you have any recommendations of things I should try? The files that do play, do so reliably. The ones that don't, also do so reliably. All of the files on my server are HEVC MKV files, so that is a constant. 

[Happy2Play 9782]

Only thing I am really seeing in the log above it looks like sub-title extraction failed on an episode on a item trying to be played.

But server and ffmpeg log for a specific example may provide more info.

A guess is this is all subtitle related correct?

Edited June 10, 2024 by Happy2Play

[shadowtheimpure 12]

Looking over the 'success' and 'fail' files, the common factor appears to be .srt formatted subtitles. Is there a way to force them to be ignored in the DLNA profile? I'd rather it play and not display subtitles than to fail entirely. 

[Happy2Play 9782]

9 hours ago, shadowtheimpure said:

Looking over the 'success' and 'fail' files, the common factor appears to be .srt formatted subtitles. Is there a way to force them to be ignored in the DLNA profile? I'd rather it play and not display subtitles than to fail entirely. 

Have you tried adding them to your profile?  Or removing them?

[shadowtheimpure 12]

Y'all are both gentlemen and scholars. That did the trick.