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Ticket #3 (new Enhancement Request)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 3 years ago

Transcoding formats

Reported by: swiss Assigned to:
Priority: Medium Milestone: Undecided
Component: Playback: Video Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description (Last modified by swiss)

Use VLC to transcode video/audio formats that are not supported by the hardware player. Details on a possible implementation can be found in the forums.

Attachments

trans.txt (0.9 kB) - added by swiss on 06/06/07 07:57:00.

Change History

05/08/07 09:46:30 changed by swiss

  • description changed.

05/13/07 10:42:44 changed by swiss

  • version deleted.
  • milestone set to Undecided.

06/06/07 07:57:00 changed by swiss

  • attachment trans.txt added.

06/06/07 07:58:09 changed by swiss

From the Forums:

I'm successfully doing transcoding on the fly to my eva700 (though I'm doing it alongside Swisscenter, rather than with SC). Instead of using VLC to do the conversion, I'm using ffmpeg, which I find to be faster and more accurate.

Attached is a bone-simple perl cgi that handles transcoding for me. I'd imagine it'd be trivial to port this to PHP (and/or modify SC to call the CGI appropriately for files that will require transcoding). You also need to have ffmpeg installed, but it's been compiled on Windows and unix, and seems readily available.

I've got a series of CGI scripts that I use to run my eva700 from a linux machine, that can do a number of nifty things (including very basic YouTube? integration, transcoding, and soon, transcoding of live streams). If this sounds interesting to you, and you'd like to help, you'll find my email address in the comments of the attached file.