Adding a Live Stream | Ubuntu | avconv |

I just installed Serviio on a Mint Linux Ubuntu Box, in the expectation that it will work well with our brand new Sony BDP-S590.

I really hoping it will let us stream some programming off the 'net.

The wiki offers instructions (http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=add_live_feeds) that look good, except that:

a) ffmpeg is being dropped by Ubuntu in favour of avconv.
b) in any event, I haven't been able to get any stream URL to test successfully with either. When I try to "Test the live stream URL to ensure the stream is live and accessable" I get:

Unable to find a suitable output format for 'http://www.justin.tv/murraykj709'

Also tried:
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Canada/BC/
http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/6539.htm
http://www.livestream.com/globalbc

Can someone give me a URL that will test out OK with either FFMPEG or AVCONV? At this point I don't know if the problem is the URLs I've picked, or the software itself.

Barry

[zip]

Go to the online resources forum, there are a lot of examples and plugins. These URLs that you have are URLS to a web sites, not a video stream.

I've got the same with Ubuntu, since I'm also using avconv instead of ffmpeg. It seems that Serviio is passing -vbsf as argument to ffmpeg, but that option was already deprecated with ffmpeg. In avconv, it's totally dropped. In avconv, the correct syntax is -bsf:v.

Therefore, I think you'll have to use ffmpeg instead.

[npuser]

a) ffmpeg is being dropped by Ubuntu in favour of avconv.
Barry

Why not compile your own ffmpeg? It pretty easy to do - instructions here http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=build_ffmpeg_linux

Npuser