Watching video on the Android app

[goldielocks]

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to watch transcoded videos from subsonic while I'm out and about.

I've setup transcoding from some settings I found elsewhere on the forum:

flv/h264 video
avi mpg mpeg mp4 m4v mkv mov wmv ogv divx m2ts
flv
ffmpeg -ss %o -i %s -async 1 -b %bk -s %wx%h -ar 44100 -ac 2 -v 0 -f flv -vcodec libx264 -preset superfast -threads 0 -

And playing in Chrome on my PC works perfectly. Transcoding is running, no problem at all.

However, playing in the Android app doesn't do what I want.

There are three options in 'Settings -> Video Player', but none of them seem to transcode:

1. 'MX Player' - opens the stream without any transcoding. With this set, viewing the video in the library on the app shows no transcoding as well.

2. 'Flash' - opens a link in the browser to a link that starts with 'https://<<MY_SERVER>/rest/videoPlayer.view?.......' and shows "HTTP ERROR: 404 - NOT_FOUND - RequestURI=/rest/videoPlayer.view". In the log, I get: " WARN org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound - No request handling method with name 'videoPlayer' in class [net.sourceforge.subsonic.controller.RESTController]"

3. 'Default' - gives me a choice of which video app I open the video in. Same as option 1, this launches the original video, not any transcoding, and no transcoding is showing when browsing videos in the library.


What am I doing wrong?

[kayzlot1]

It should certainly be MX Player. I'm curious why you changed any transcoding options - this should be default/built-in to subsonic straight out of the box.

In it's current state, does MX Player play the video at all? Is your issue that it's not transcoding to a worse quality for mobile play?

[goldielocks]

It should certainly be MX Player. I'm curious why you changed any transcoding options - this should be default/built-in to subsonic straight out of the box.

In it's current state, does MX Player play the video at all? Is your issue that it's not transcoding to a worse quality for mobile play?

You're right, it does play but just at full quality so I get about half a second of video for 5 seconds of loading. It was like this from new hence why I started playing with the settings! I also don't see the transcoding process startup on the server like I do when playing it in chrome...

[goldielocks]

Is nobody able to help?