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So, I successfully installed everything necessary on my Ubuntu server, including lame and ffmpeg in /var/subsonic/transcode. I copied them there, rather than symlinking.

My transcode settings for m4a look like

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m4a > mp3 | m4a | mp3 | ffmpeg -i %s -f mp3 -ab %b | <blank> | <blank>

and the "Default" and "Enabled" boxes are checked.

I've checked the boxes for "Active Transcodings" for each player.

And I get zero audio from either a Web or an External player when playing an m4a file.

Help?

Hi,

what does your log say?

And perhaps this can help (look for guitarguru's post):

http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1915


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Both ffmpeg and lame are installed in /var/subsonic/transcode, not symlinked.

My log output:

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[2009-08-17 00:55:30,903] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg)   libavfilter    0. 4. 0 /  0. 4. 0
[2009-08-17 00:55:30,903] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg)   libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
[2009-08-17 00:55:30,903] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg)   libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
[2009-08-17 00:55:30,903] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg)   built on Apr 10 2009 23:18:41, gcc: 4.3.3
[2009-08-17 00:55:30,903] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/var/music/Bob Dylan/Dylan on Tour/11 Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.m4a':
[2009-08-17 00:55:30,904] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg)   Duration: 00:01:24.05, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 129 kb/s
[2009-08-17 00:55:30,904] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg)     Stream #0.0(und): Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16
[2009-08-17 00:55:30,904] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) WARNING: The bitrate parameter is set too low. It takes bits/s as argument, not kbits/s
[2009-08-17 00:55:30,904] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) At least one output file must be specified
[2009-08-17 00:55:32,910] INFO StreamController - Stopping stream gavin@fe80:0:0:0:21b:63ff:fec8:9a40:64158 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.19.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.2 Safari/530.19)


On the advice of this thread I tried using `ffmpeg -i %s -f mp3 -ab %b - 2>/dev/null' and got the following log output:

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[2009-08-17 01:21:19,680] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg)   libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1
[2009-08-17 01:21:19,680] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg)   libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
[2009-08-17 01:21:19,681] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg)   built on Apr 10 2009 23:18:41, gcc: 4.3.3
[2009-08-17 01:21:19,683] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/var/music/Bob Dylan/Dylan on Tour/11 Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.m4a':
[2009-08-17 01:21:19,684] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg)   Duration: 00:01:24.05, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 129 kb/s
[2009-08-17 01:21:19,685] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg)     Stream #0.0(und): Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16
[2009-08-17 01:21:19,685] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) WARNING: The bitrate parameter is set too low. It takes bits/s as argument, not kbits/s
[2009-08-17 01:21:19,687] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/ffmpeg) Unable to find a suitable output format for '2>/dev/null'
[2009-08-17 01:21:19,692] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread - (/var/subsonic/transcode/lame) Warning: unsupported audio format
[2009-08-17 01:21:21,698] INFO StreamController - Stopping stream gavin@fe80:0:0:0:21b:63ff:fec8:9a40:64710 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.19.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.2 Safari/530.19)


What output do I need ffmpeg to pipe to?

So I created the shell script suggested by this thread, but still have no output.

subsonic.log:

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[2009-08-19 14:24:16,170] INFO StreamController - Starting stream gavin@fe80:0:0:0:21b:63ff:fec8:9a40:54285 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.19.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.2 Safari/530.19)
[2009-08-19 14:24:16,171] INFO PlaylistInputStream - Opening new song Dylan on Tour/11 Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.m4a
[2009-08-19 14:24:16,178] DEBUG TranscodeInputStream - Starting transcoder: [/var/subsonic/transcode/m4a2mp3.sh] [/var/music/Bob Dylan/Dylan on Tour/11 Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.m4a] [128]
[2009-08-19 14:24:18,236] INFO StreamController - Stopping stream gavin@fe80:0:0:0:21b:63ff:fec8:9a40:54285 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/530.19.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.2 Safari/530.19)

Anyone have any clue where to go from here? I'm like Subsonic's ease of use, but if I'm not going to be able to use it, I'm not going to be able to use it, and that's that. Please point me in a direction to try, if you've got any clue whatsoever what might fix this.