MPEG2Video codec on Panasonic Smart TV

Plex Players Smart TVs
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Version numbers…
Synology NAS: DSM 6.2.3-25426 update 2
PMS: 1.20.1.3252
Panasonic TV (TH-43FX600Z) with; Plex for Smart TV 3.13.21 and Smart TV Alliance 3.0

What I’m trying to do is create a custom profile for our TV’s so that they play some files encoded with MPEG2VIDEO without needing to have them transcoded on the fly. Apart from those videos, the system works really well.
I’m convinced the TV supports this codec as I can play those videos using the built in player. I accept this may not be sound logic but I’m keen to give it a try and if it doesn’t work then I’ve not lost anything. I’m also thinking that as Panasonic TV’s are no longer officially supported that my plan is worth trying.

My plan;

  1. Download the current profile for the Panasonic Smart TV that the client is using.
  2. Modify it to add that is supports MPEG2VIDEO
  3. Place the modified profile here (’/volume1/Plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Profiles’).
  4. Restart PMS and see if the videos will play without transcoding.

I’m stuck on 1 though even after research and testing my very rusty Linux skills to the max!

I’m trying to access “volume1/@appstore/Plex Media Server”. I’ve done this by accessing the NAS via SSH and using a command (ln - s “/volume1/@appstore/Plex Media Server” /volume1/appstore) to link that folder to a shared folder (appstore) that I can access from a windows machine.
The command works and I can see “Plex Media Server” in the shared appstore folder in Windows Explorer but I get permission issues accessing the PMS folder even though I’m using a NAS local admin account to authenticate with.
And that’s where my research and skills ended my quest.

So; can someone please let me know how I can access the folder where the default profiles are stored and how I identify which profile the TV is using. Hopefully I then have enough remaining skills to to download a copy, modify it and place it in the right place!

Many thanks

Kevin

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If you can have SSH Access don’t bother making a shared folder and editing it on Windows Explorer.

Just do
cd "volume1/@appstore/Plex Media Server/Resource/Profile"

If you type ls it will shows all .xml file.
Then edit it on the command line (using nano, vim, etc).

If you insists on doing it on Windows GUI then just download Filezilla and connect using SFTP (i.e file access using SSH), then you can open the xml normally in your Windows.

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Thanks for the response. After posting the original question I found a alternative way of getting to the profiles; accessing them by extracting the latest plea update package.
That’s not really helped me because I think the generic profile is used (that was referenced in the dlna server log) and the generic.xml file is basically empty.
I’m nervous about creating a new generic.xml profile and adding a line for mpeg2video as I assume that I would lose all other capability because it’s not explicitly defined.
So while I’ve moved forward a bit, I’m still stuck on the specific profile (as there’s no existing Panasonic smart tv profile) or clarification that if I add a single line to the custom generic profile I won’t lose all the other default capability.
Thanks

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Why nervous? If it does not work just reinstall Plex and you get default value.

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