Transcoding media

[matigev]

I have a Netgear EVA2000 media player attached to my tv as a cheap solution for watching movies.
It works great with the miniDLNA server on my NS2, but the EVA2000 doesn't play everything.
Now I read something about transcoding here, but I guess miniDLNA doesn't support that.
Do I need to use another server? Or is transcoding on a NS2 impossible anyway (lack of hardware)?

[fvdw]

I don't know if minidlna supports transcoding, you will need to search for info on the internet.
Transcoding is changing the the stream from one format in the other, has nothing to do with hardware as such, although transcoding is cpu and memory intensive. As such I think not an option for the nwsp1 but the nwsp2 with its 256 MB of memory and 800 mhz processor should be capable. The twonky server supports transcoding but it is not free and I am not sure it will do what you want, never used transcoding until now.

Instead of transcoding it would be more handy to put the files on the NAS using a format that your evo suports

[matigev]

Well. transcoding is hard to do. My old tv cannot handle hd mkvs.
Is it possible for you to compile ffmpeg?
That would be awesome because then my nas could convert mkv to avi.

[fvdw]

I can compile it but it needs several libraries and I these are already present in the firmware. I included in the past some libraries to make minidlna work. So I am reluctant to change those libraries as they may affect minidlna. I searched in my archive if I also have the ffmpeg binary that uses the same libraries in the versions as present on the NAS, and I found it. :D

In the attached file an ffmpeg binary that uses the versions of the av libs installed
So all libs that it needs are on the NAS in the correct versions

Put this ffmpeg file in the folder /opt/bin and set it executable (chmod 755)

Let us know if it works :mrgreen: :ugeek:

[matigev]

It works fine! Thanks!
I'll let you know if the convert succeeded (takes some time).

I also found another way to get ffmpeg (see my topic) which works too with minidlna (don't know if it updates the libraries?)!
It's so crazy you give all this suppport so quick for free!
Do you have a paypal account :D ?

[fvdw]

thanks matigev, yes I know too much time spend on all this ;)

yep I have a paypal account, e-mail can be found in the help menu of the webinterface
Just press help in the main window or press release notes button

[matigev]

Donated 10 EUR, I'll hope more people will follow...

[fvdw]

Donated 10 EUR, I'll hope more people will follow...

thanks very much matigev, much appreciated by Jocko and me :D it will keeps us even more motivated to enhance the firmware further

[matigev]

Could you compile mencoder and mediainfo for me? :roll:
I'm trying some transcoding using mediatomb. If it works, it's possible to add subtitles (srt) and play matroska (mkv) on my old tv.
Especially the srt support is a quite usefull feature! I will post a guide how to do it if I get it to work.

[fvdw]

I will look at it