Serviio

Hi,
I have installed serviio onto my NAS drive AND onto a PC for comparison reasons. I decided to do the PC first as I am much more competent with windows than Linux.

My rendering device is a 2009 SONY TV and at first I could not get serviio on the PC to display MKV files. However with a little digging on this excellent forum is able to adjust my Sony profile and display the problematic MKV files.

My problem is I cannot get serviio to transcode on the NAS drive, I am using the same profile as the PC version which works as expected. I realise the NAS will not be powerful enough to transcode full HD as the processor is a bit on the small size (memory and clock speed) but I cannot even view the MKV files on the TV menu which I thought I would be able to do even if they stuttered when playing back. The files that do not need transcoding for the Sony TV to display are present as work as expected.

Ffmeg is a slightly newer version than that in patter’s excellent guide for synology based NAS drives and I did have a little fun with wget and wget-ssl but the guide works fine if you read it.

I have enabled Generate thumbnails for local videos, which caused the NAS processor to jump to 100% whilst ffmeg generated them and as far as I can tell everything is installed ok.

So, can anyone shed some light as to why the NAS version is refusing to transcode?

Moving this to the NAS forum

At a guess I'd say that your FFmpeg is not in the right place (should be compiled with --prefix=/opt) so it's probably trying to use the one built in to DSM which can't remux or transcode anything.

From an SSH session run ffmpeg. Is it loading the old one which says by Fabrice Bellard et al.?

Hi Patters,

the version of ffmpeg

FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers
built on Apr 15 2011 22:30:38 with gcc 4.2.3
configuration: --arch=arm --enable-armv5te --prefix=/opt --extra-cflags=-I/opt/include --extra-ldflags=-L/opt/lib --enable-static --disable-shared --disable-ffplay --disable-ffserver --enable-libmp3lame
libavutil 50.36. 0 / 50.36. 0
libavcore 0.16. 0 / 0.16. 0
libavcodec 52.108. 0 / 52.108. 0
libavformat 52.92. 0 / 52.92. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 3 / 52. 2. 3
libavfilter 1.72. 0 / 1.72. 0
libswscale 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile options] outfile}...

Use -h to get full help or, even better, run 'man ffmpeg'

I would blame the Sony profile but its identical to the one used on the PC which works.

Did you remember to set Serviio's temporary folder to a location on your hard disk (and not /tmp which is the default, which will immediately fill up)?