Unable to stream mpeg4 video to my Samsung TV

[Dessloch]

Here are the pictures of the CMD prompt.

You know the funny thing is if I'm using the Windows Media Player Legacy (after I made a playlist) I can stream the video to my TV without any problem. For some reason UMS has a problem with these videos.

[mik_s]

I misread what codec they was using, It is Xvid not divX.
IIRC Xvid is open source but divX needs a licence so is usually not supported by manufacturers any more.

There is a chance the TV can play Xvid natively but I did not see it on the list of supported formats from Samsung's developers website.
Did you try playing them with the "no transcode" option form the #--TRANSCODE--# folder? If this works I can tweak the conf to say it is supported.

The output from FFmpeg is a bit unusual from what I am used to. It says it is discarding some excessive data in a packed steam.
Maybe the way these videos was encoded is difficult for the current way UMS is transcoding or even if it can in the current state.

I did find some information about DivX/Xvid on Samsung TVs and how it might be possible to trick the TV to playing them by changing the codec ID.
For packed bitstreams you can use FFmpeg to decompress and reorganise it to make it compatible without needing a full re-encode.
The instructions on how to do this are here with a lot more information about this but I only read the first few posts. It looks like someone has made a script to automate the conversion too.

You might have to try playing these converted videos using "no transcoding" first as I don't know if UMS can detect this change to be able to set this in the conf as supported.
If they do then it would help to see logs of it trying to play normally and with no transcoding to see if I can make the tweak.
However normal transcoding should now work on them.

I would like to do some testing on these myself if you are able to upload one of them for me. You could use Mega.nz then send me the link in a PM.