This is kind of perplexing to me because both files are written with x264, but obviously I'm missing some thing(s). Here's an example mediainfo output of a file that does work:Įncoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=6 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=0 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=0 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=18 / lookahead_threads=4 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=6 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=25 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=2pass / mbtree=1 / bitrate=3778 / ratetol=1.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=10 / qpmax=51 / qpstep=4 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / vbv_maxrate=24000 / vbv_bufsize=24000 / nal_hrd=none / filler=0 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00Ĭhannel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE

Specifically, the transcoders available by default are FFmpeg and MEncoder. When I try any of the available default transcoders (2 or so are shown on the Ps4 for every file), they still don't work. With no transcoding, the PS4 says they do not play. mp4 files which do not play on PS4 (mostly TV series) which are also seemingly H.264. I have 500+ movie files, the vast majority of which work flawlessly (much better than plex, I must say!!) with zero transcoding, as PS4 only accepts H.264 encoding and that is what most of my media is. I am running a headless UMS server from a Raspberry pi 3b (Ubuntu 16.04), streaming to a Playstation 4 (most updated software version). I'm new here and don't know much about DLNA/UMS/media encoding, but do know my way around Linux a bit.

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