Re: The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server

2018-08-15 Thread Marko Cupać
On 2018-08-12, John Long wrote: > I don't get why anybody would want transcoding in 2018. >> On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 08:42:41 + (UTC) >> Stuart Henderson wrote: >> They don't usually *want* transcoding but are forced to do it by >> poor codec support on client devices. Actually I *want* the

Re: The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server

2018-08-15 Thread Marko Cupać
On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 21:55:15 -0700 Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > ...'Serviio'... Thank you for the tip. I have tried dozens of these but not Serviio. I have currently settled on subsonic's fork called airsonic which runs in tomcat. I run it on FreeBSD at the moment but it should work on OpenBSD

Re: The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server

2018-08-12 Thread Robert
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 13:48:23 + flipchan wrote: > Awesome !! Plex feels like an blob of unknown black magic that you execute on > your system, I will check out this new one out, thanks Well, good luck with that. Serviio is closed source (Java binaries), and also has a "pro" version that you

Re: The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server

2018-08-12 Thread flipchan
Awesome !! Plex feels like an blob of unknown black magic that you execute on your system, I will check out this new one out, thanks On August 12, 2018 4:55:15 AM UTC, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: >Hi Folks, > >I found a viable Plex alternative that runs perfectly on OpenBSD called > >'Serviio'. It

Re: The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server

2018-08-12 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
On 08/12/18 01:42, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018-08-12, John Long wrote: I don't get why anybody would want transcoding in 2018. They don't usually *want* transcoding but are forced to do it by poor codec support on client devices. Exactly. The only reason I use Serviio is for the on the

Re: The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server

2018-08-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2018-08-12, John Long wrote: > I don't get why anybody would want transcoding in 2018. They don't usually *want* transcoding but are forced to do it by poor codec support on client devices.

Re: The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server

2018-08-12 Thread John Long
On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 21:55 -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I found a viable Plex alternative that runs perfectly on OpenBSD > called > 'Serviio'. It does DLNA with on the fly media transcoding / remuxing > and > also has an HTML5 media player. Thanks for the info. I have been

The Ultimate OpenBSD Media Server

2018-08-11 Thread Jordan Geoghegan
Hi Folks, I found a viable Plex alternative that runs perfectly on OpenBSD called 'Serviio'. It does DLNA with on the fly media transcoding / remuxing and also has an HTML5 media player. I've found it able to handle cataloguing and indexing my 10TB media library great and I've enjoyed the