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I have tried all kinds of ffmpeg settings to get external player (vlc or media player) to work but i cant get it, ffmpeg just runs at 100% cpu on my system or just does nothing. flash player works good.

these are the settings i tried

ffmpeg -v 0 -ss %o -async 30 -i %s -f flv -b %bk -r 23.976 -s %wx%h -ar 44100 -ac 2 -
ffmpeg -ss %o -i %s -async 1 -b %bk -ar 44100 -ac 2 -v 0 -f flv -vcodec libx264 -preset superfast -threads 2 -
ffmpeg -v 0 -ss %o -async 30 -i %s -f flv -b %bk -r 23.976 -s %wx%h -vcodec libx264 -ar 44100 -ac 2 -



ffmpeg -i %s -async 1 -b %bk -ar 44100 -ac 2 -v 0 -f asf -vcodec libx264 -preset superfast -threads 2 - ---- this one works but it cuts off about 3-5 min at the end of the movie/show

any help would be appreciated. thanks

There's no need to do any transcoding if you use VLC as the external player as it will run any filetype you throw at it. I've often wondered why Subsonic just doesn't embed VLC instead of Jw Player and for get all the transcoding altogether and just take all the transcoding load off the server and just stream to VLC.

At any rate, the external player function has a few glitches in it and takes a bit of trial and error if you're determined to use the external player feature. On Windows, I can get VLC to work with IE 9 by selecting external with playlist. It doesn't work with Chrome.

ah, got it. no wonder i cant find much help on this.
its just i was hopping to save some bandwidth by transcoding oh well.

Saving bandwigth on video isn't an easy thing to accomplish using an external player. If you just use the internal player you can drop the video as low as 200kbps.

For music I transcode to ogg for Android playback to get pretty reasonable quality at around 100kbps.