Ticket #208 (new enhancement)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 6 months ago

Video transcoding

Reported by: tweenk Assigned to:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: Feature Requests Version:
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Description

Many UPnP devices are quite limited in their media format support. For example, I have a Philips Streamium SLM5500 and it can't access any YouTube feeds. It can only play back DivX, XviD, and MPEG 1/2/4 video, and MP3, WAV or WMA audio only - no OGG, MKV, FLV, etc. It would be great if there was an option (or a separate backend) that serves all audio / video content as a specific format with on-the-fly transcoding if required.

Change History

09.05.2009 22:47:54 changed by jmsizun

The Youtube backend serves MPEG 4 (video/mp4). Can you check that you can stream MPEG 4 videos (.mp4) through another backend (FS_storage for instance)?

10.05.2009 22:22:13 changed by tweenk

Seems like my player can't read .mp4 files... It only supports AVI with MPEG4, MPEG2, DivX or XviD codecs. Is there an option to configure what is served from the YouTube backend?

Here are the specs: http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/s/slm5500_05/slm5500_05_pss_eng.pdf The second page contains the supported codecs.

08.06.2009 14:19:00 changed by jmsizun

We'll have to wait for the video transcoding functions to be ready: mpeg4 to avi in our case.

24.01.2010 21:58:16 changed by TeleTommy

Is this still "new" ? I read about video transcoding and added it via command line. But, having enabled the youtube plugin, my Sony W5800 says that no compatible formats are available. Did I miss anything? Thanks, Thomas

24.01.2010 23:35:48 changed by jmsizun

There is something implemented: if "trancoding is enabled, coherence exposes the youtube videos as two possible streams:

  • native stream with type '/video/mp4'.
  • transcoded stream with type '/video/mpeg'.

Does your TV normally support one of these format?