On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:33:34 +0200 Jens Georg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fr, 2013-08-09 at 15:05 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: [DLNA client only accepts mp4 format] > > I used avconv to convert a .mkv to .mp4 and the player was then able to > > play the video, but there was no sound, so it looks like I also need to > > transcode the audio from AC3 to M4A. I think my HTPC should be able to > > manage that in terms of CPU power, but is there a way to get Rygel to do > > this on the fly? I tried reading man rygel.conf but couldn't find the > > information I need. > > Rygel does a very low-quality (15fps, 320x240) on-the-fly conversion to > H.264/AAC already. The video stream is already H264, so it doesn't need to transcode that, just the audio from AC3 and change the container from mkv to mp4. Hopefully it would also accept PCM, making the conversion more economical and less lossy. > I'm afraid there's no way to do this by configuration, but you could try > to tweak this by modifying > src/media-engines/gstreamer/rygel-avc-transcoder.vala. On Googling I found that it's quite common for DLNA clients to be picky like this, and some other servers have "profiles" to deal with it. There are commercial servers like plex and serviio available for Linux, which I think have this ability, but I'd rather stick to open source. This is the sort of thing gstreamer should be able to do very effectively so it's a shame for rygel to miss out. _______________________________________________ rygel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rygel-list
