[mythtv-users] Sony Android TV does not play AVC [h.264] recordings from MythTV UPNP - but from MiniDLNA

[Peter Bennett]

On 06/17/2018 04:50 AM, Philipp Hahn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Sony KD-55XE8096 TV, which is powered by Android TV. Using the
> "Video" App I'm able to play my h.264 transcoded videos (using
> Handbrake), but DVB-C [Germany] recordings using h.264 fail to play. I
> only get the following error message on the TV:
>
>> "Video kann nicht abgespielt werden".
> which translates to "Video cannot be played".
> Recordings still using "MPEG-2" play fine.
>
> If I take the same file and serve it with "MiniDLNA", it plays fine.
>
> Using curl I see the following differences in the returned HTTP headers:
>
>> $ curl -I  http://scout.fritz.box:8200/MediaItems/25.mpg
>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>> Connection: close
>> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 08:25:38 GMT
>> Server: Debian DLNADOC/1.50 UPnP/1.0 MiniDLNA/1.2.1
>> EXT:
>> realTimeInfo.dlna.org: DLNA.ORG_TLAG=*
>> transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming
>> Content-Type: video/mpeg
>> Content-Length: 3092638728
>> Accept-Ranges: bytes
>> contentFeatures.dlna.org: DLNA.ORG_PN=AVC_TS_HP_HD_AC3_ISO;DLNA.ORG_OP=01;DLNA.ORG_CI=0;DLNA.ORG_FLAGS=01700000000000000000000000000000
>> $ curl -I  http://192.168.178.33:6544/Content/GetRecording?RecordedId=3516
>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>> Accept-Ranges: bytes
>> Cache-Control: no-cache="Ext", max-age = 7200
>> Connection: Keep-Alive
>> Content-Disposition: inline; filename="13150_20180611154300.ts"
>> Content-Language: de
>> Content-Length: 3092638728
>> Content-Type: video/mp2t
>> Date: So., 17 Juni 2018 08:27:59 GMT
>> Keep-Alive: timeout=10
>> Last-Modified: Mo., 11 Juni 2018 16:35:00 GMT
>> Server: MythTV/29.1-9-gd9d702526b-dirty Linux/4.9.0-6-amd64 UPnP/1.0
>> transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming
> For comparison here's one of my h.264 encoded videos playing fine:
>
>> curl -I http://192.168.178.33:6544/Content/GetVideo?Id=1414
>> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>> Accept-Ranges: bytes
>> Cache-Control: no-cache="Ext", max-age = 7200
>> Connection: Keep-Alive
>> Content-Disposition: inline; filename="REDACTED.m4v"
>> Content-Language: de
>> Content-Length: 745221397
>> Content-Type: video/mp4
>> Date: So., 17 Juni 2018 08:46:21 GMT
>> Keep-Alive: timeout=10
>> Last-Modified: So., 27 Mai 2018 14:15:40 GMT
>> Server: MythTV/29.1-9-gd9d702526b-dirty Linux/4.9.0-6-amd64 UPnP/1.0
>> transferMode.dlna.org: Streaming
>
> I found <https://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/support-info.pl?info_id=799>
> which documents the "Supported File Formats for DLNA® and USB Compatible
> Sony® TVs", but its unclear if it also applies to the Android based TVs.
>
> I've also tried to run the recording through "ffmpeg -c:v copy -c:a copy
> -sn -movflags empty_moov -flags global_header", but that hasn't helped.
>
>
> Does someone know how to play those h.264 recordings on Android?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Philipp
> _______________________________________________
>

We are working on an android build of MythTV. Anything that plays in 
MythTV should play in the android build. It is a work in progress but 
quite usable at this time.

Peter