wooops, sorry. I meant to send this to ports@.
On 08/08/18 23:14, Jordan Geoghegan wrote:
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> On 08/08/18 16:14, Marc Espie wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 11:30:52AM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote:
>>> I know minidlna is in ports, but it doesn't do on the fly media
>>> transcoding/remuxing with FFmpeg nor does it have an integrated
>>> HTML5 video
>>> player like Serviio does. I tried minidlna, but it unfortunately
>>> doesnt work
>>> for me as my devices need the transcoding/remuxing feature that Serviio
>>> offers. For example, my bluray player refuses to playback most video
>>> containers over DLNA (mp4, mkv etc) but will play most video formats
>>> (AVC,
>>> Xvid, mpeg2 etc) all it needs is for the video files to be remuxed
>>> into an
>>> M2TS or AVI container, which Serviio is able to do on the fly without
>>> transcoding. It's also useful for making my H265 content available
>>> on my
>>> older devices that don't natively support the newer
>>> codecs/containers. I
>>> also quite enjoy the HTML5 video player, as it allows me to watch my
>>> movies
>>> on the go. It's annoying that it's proprietary, but at least it
>>> works well
>>> on OpenBSD.
>> Tip: devices like android tablets or the XBox One don't necessarily
>> advertize
>> it, but they DO have VLC, and it's fairly happy with most x265 content.
>>
>> The only issue I've had with ldna service so far is the need to remux
>> subtitles
>> into an mp4/mkv because separate .srt files do not work.
>>
>> That's fairly easy to do and rather permanent. Out of a fairly large
>> sample
>> of video files, I can say that VLC on those devices handles
>> everything but
>> maybe 0.05%.
> Yes VLC is an amazing program and I use it heavily. MiniDLNA is also a
> great project. Unfortunately VLC isn't available for Xbox 360.
> MiniDLNA doesn't work very good for my BDP S5200 bluray players or my
> Xbox 360 devices (of which my family owns over half a dozen) as they
> require AVI, M2TS or WMV containers respectively. It isn't feasible
> for me to remux/transcode my 10TB media library (which is comprised
> mostly of mkv) just so I can watch cartoons on my living room TV.
> Granted I could just build a dedicated OpenBSD media streaming box,
> but that isn't a feasible solution for my mother or my technophobe
> sister who both live on the other side of the country from me. It was
> easy enough for me to just set up a small machine next to their router
> and just scp new shows over to them as needed, where Serviio then
> detects the new content and automatically adds it to their library;
> From there it can then be accessed on their smart TV, bluray player,
> 360, computer or iPad either at home or abroad.
>
> MiniDLNA and VLC also don't really have an equivalent to Serviio's
> HTML5 streaming server. It is nice to be able to just pop open a
> browser and have access to all my media on my home server. I like that
> Serviio can parse movie/TV show names and connect to IMDB / TVDB to
> grab relevant metadata and cover art for my files. It is nice to see
> my files optionally presented with actual correct episode names,
> rather than "S01E03$TVShowName$TorrentersName". I find that the video
> metadata makes wading through 10,000+ movies and TV episodes a much
> more pleasant experience, as I can search by year, actor, genre etc.
> Another neat feature it offers is the ability to automatically
> download subtitles for all your videos and either on-the-fly transcode
> the file to burn them in, or remux on-the-fly to embed the subtitles.
> On my home server, I run Serviio in a vmm(4) virtual machine with
> read-only NFS access to my media library. Proprietary software is bad
> ju ju, but I find Serviio to be a preferable all in one solution to
> Plex, as I can at least run it on my favourite OS.
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