[SOLVED] Transcode fails with online feed

Hi

I have now been using Serviio for some time and thought I would try it with an online feed. Unfortuantly I ran into an issue I do not understand, and hopefully somebody here can help.

I have tried with a VideoPodcast from dr.dk (Danish broadcating service), the feed shows up alright but refuses to play. I then downloaded one of the videos using Amarok, and but in my Video directory for serviio. Again the video shows up but refuses to play.

A look in the log shows the following:

2011-11-06 15:21:04,394 WARN [ProcessExecutor] Process ffmpeg has a return code of 134! This is a possible error.
2011-11-06 15:21:04,498 ERROR [ResourceTransportRequestHandler] Error while processing resource, sending back 500 error. Message: FFmpeg execution failed
java.io.IOException: FFmpeg execution failed

I the tried to transcode manually using ffmpeg and the following command:
ffmpeg -filname -target dvd tmp.mpg
This produces a file that works with serviio.

Running Serviio with debug, showed the activation command of ffmpeg, using the same command on the downloaded file does indeed crash ffmpeg

Hope somebody can help figuring how to make serviio transcode the feed, and why ffmpeg fails.

The TV Sony Bravia W5500

Serviio run on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, with ffmpeg v0.8 from PPA

Link to podcast: http://vpodcast.dr.dk/feeds/bonderoevenrss.xml

Thanks for a great program

[Illico]

...using the same command on the downloaded file does indeed crash ffmpeg
Hope somebody can help figuring how to make serviio transcode the feed, and why ffmpeg fails.

Could you try the ffmpeg command line locally and report the ffmpeg log result here?

Hi Illico,

When producing the requested output from ffmpeg I noticed that the old ffmpeg 0.5.1 was still being used. This caused my to investigate why 0.8 had not been installed. Found the problem updated ffmpeg to 0.8 and now it works without a hitch

Thanks for the help, sometimes it help asking questions, the answers will sometimes make you look at the problem in a new light.

serviio really rocks

[Illico]

enjoy