petrkotek/chromecastize

Still level 5.2

carlogarro opened this issue · 2 comments

carlogarro commented

Hello, after using this in one of my video files, it is suposed to be ready for chromecast but Plex still says that my server is not powerfull enough. It says that I should be level 4.2 and that I am level 5.1.

Process followed:

Processing: ../../Downloads/Series/The Sopranos/Season 3/The Sopranos - S03E01 - Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood HDTV-720p.mkv

  • general: Matroska -> ok
  • input video profile: High@L5.1
  • video: AVC -> copy
  • audio: AC-3 -> libvorbis
  • video length: 00:47:11.800
    [matroska,webm @ 0xb3f4f0] Read error at pos. 1668452740 (0x63729184)3941.7kbits/s frame=70795 fps=1252 q=-1.0 Lsize= 1363994kB time=00:47:11.68 bitrate=3946.0kbits/s
    conversion succeeded; file '../../Downloads/Series/The Sopranos/Season 3/The Sopranos - S03E01 - Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood HDTV-720p.mkv' saved
    renaming original file as '../../Downloads/Series/The Sopranos/Season 3/The Sopranos - S03E01 - Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood HDTV-720p.mkv.bak'

When I chech with mediainfo my file after chromecastize it still says: Format profile : High@L5.1

Do you guys have some idea? Thank you.

[Chromecast] [MDE] Augmented profile: { "directPlay": { "mp4": { "mimeType": "video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E"", "video": { "codecs": { "h264": { "maxLevel": 42 } }, "maxWidth": 1920, "maxHeight": 1080, "maxBitDepth": 8, "maxFrameRate": 60 }, "audio": { "codecs": { "aac": { "maxSamplingRate": 48000, "maxChannels": 2 }, "mp3": {}, "ac3": {} } } }, "mkv": { "mimeType": "video/webm", "video": { "codecs": { "h264": { "maxLevel": 42 }, "vp8": {} }, "maxWidth": 1920, "maxHeight": 1080, "maxBitDepth": 8, "maxFrameRate": 60 }, "audio": { "codecs": { "aac": { "maxSamplingRate": 48000, "maxChannels": 2 }, "mp3": {}, "vorbis": {}, "ac3": {} } } }, "mpegts": { "protocol": "hls", "video": { "maxWidth": 1920, "maxHeight": 1080, "maxBitDepth": 8, "maxFrameRate": 60 }, "audio": { "codecs": { "ac3": {} } } } }, "directStream": { "video": { "maxWidth": 1920, "maxHeight": 1080, "maxBitDepth": 8, "maxFrameRate": 60, "codecs": { "h264": { "maxLevel": 42 } } }, "audio": { "codecs": { "aac": { "maxSamplingRate": 48000, "maxChannels": 2 }, "mp3": {}, "opus": {}, "vorbis": {} }, "maxChannels": 6 } } }

bartlaarhoven commented

AVC is a supported video codec. Chromecastize finds the video to be AVC and therefore doesn't change anything about the original video format. That includes the format profile.

What you could do is remove AVC from your SUPPORTED_VCODEC in your config.sh file. That way, you'll force chromecastize to convert your video. That will then happen to almost all of your videos though, be warned. You better use that separately on the files or folder that you encounter issues with and leave the SUPPORTED_VCODEC to a sane default for the rest.

pfrenssen commented

You can uncomment the FORCE_VENCODE=1 option in the configuration, this will always force a re-encoding of the file to a supported bitrate. Be warned though that it will also re-encode files that are already in a supported profile. Chromecastize does not yet have an option to only encode when the video profile exceeds the supported profiles.

See this section in the configuration options:

# Option to force re-encoding of the video stream. Uncomment this if you want to
# ensure that the video will always be using your encoding options and the
# resulting bitrate will be supported by your device.
#FORCE_VENCODE=1