Serviio

Hi all,

I recently switched to Serviio because my Philips TV is very picky about formats. I still haven't gotten it to work. Today it seems that transcoding fails because my FFmpeg is too new.

According to the log file and ffmpeg forums the "-threads auto" option has been removed and "0" should be used instead of "auto".

What would be the way to fix this? Do I get an older version of FFmpeg, can Serviio be reconfigured to start ffmpeg correctly or is it hardcoded?


root@space:/usr/local/serviio# ffmpeg -version
ffmpeg version 0.8.17-6:0.8.17-1, Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the Libav developers
built on Mar 15 2015 17:00:31 with gcc 4.7.2
The ffmpeg program is only provided for script compatibility and will be removed
in a future release. It has been deprecated in the Libav project to allow for
incompatible command line syntax improvements in its replacement called avconv
(see Changelog for details). Please use avconv instead.
ffmpeg 0.8.17-6:0.8.17-1
libavutil 51. 22. 3 / 51. 22. 3
libavcodec 53. 35. 0 / 53. 35. 0
libavformat 53. 21. 1 / 53. 21. 1
libavdevice 53. 2. 0 / 53. 2. 0
libavfilter 2. 15. 0 / 2. 15. 0
libswscale 2. 1. 0 / 2. 1. 0
libpostproc 52. 0. 0 / 52. 0. 0

Servio Debug log:
2015-08-31 23:21:32,108 DEBUG [RendererDAOImpl] Retrieving list of all stored renderers
2015-08-31 23:21:31,472 DEBUG [TranscodingJobListener] Transcoding finished; successful: false
Expected number for threads but found: auto
(see Changelog for details). Please use avconv instead.
incompatible command line syntax improvements in its replacement called avconv
in a future release. It has been deprecated in the Libav project to allow for
The ffmpeg program is only provided for script compatibility and will be removed
2015-08-31 23:21:31,471 WARN [ProcessExecutor] Process ffmpeg has a return code of 1! This is a possible error. Detailed output follows.
2015-08-31 23:21:31,416 DEBUG [ProcessExecutor] Starting ffmpeg -threads auto -i /media/dc69afd7-269a-4381-9e7d-b0d40ecf6ab7/Media/Collections/007/007 - James Bond - Casino Royale.avi -y -threads auto -c:v mpeg2video -pix_fmt yuv420p -qscale:v 1 -r 24000/1001 -g 15 -c:a ac3 -b:a 96k -ac 2 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -sn -f mpegts /tmp/Serviio/transcoding-temp-5256-philipslight-ORIGINAL.stf

try Console/Delivery/Transcoding tabs and set cores to use

Transcoding did not fail because ffmpeg is too new, it failed because it's too old . You are using version 0.8 , you should be using at least version 2.4.

Actually, it looks to fail because your ffmpeg is too old. Your OS is suggesting to use avconv, so make sure your new ffmpeg is on your path.