Video Feature Requests

[vistal]

I've used subsonic for a long time now, and I have 3 feature requests that would greatly enhance video usage. I know that it is primarily a music streamer, but it also is de-facto the best video streamer to date.

1) Subtitle support. I know there a couple of hacks that kind of sort of work, and I also know that you can hard burn the subtitles into the films, but I don't really want to do either.

2) Video Playlist- I would love to be able to set up a playlist of, for example, several episodes of a tv show and just let it run through.

3) Tracking watched/unwatched videos. I wish there was a way to know what episode I last left off, or if I had already seen a movie. A % watched would be even better.

Thanks,

[jayw654]

better video support as well for those of us that need on-the-fly decoding for videos and simply want to stream our movies. I notice that the limit is 5mbps a sec and seeking in videos either causes it to freeze or start over. The video is a SERIOUS issue in subsonic. I at least need 15mbps support and it to run completely PERFECT and FLUID at 1080p. JWplayer can do this task but due to many bugs videos don't run very well at all.

[Boersma]

Yes, i can vote for this. I have a lot of music videos and it sucks not to have a playlist.

So please bring on a playlist feature for videos...

[vistal]

@jayw654

I had the same problem until I turned off transcoding for mp4. Then I switch the container to mp4 from whatever it was. This is much faster than re-encoding the video, works with most formats as long as the original encoding was compatible with mp4, gives me higher quality than transcoded, and allows seeking to work properly.

If you have access to a debian based linux box you can run

ffmpeg -i filename.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec copy -movflags faststart filename.mp4

Note-This will work with more than .mkv. As long as the original encode was mp4 compatible.

After this it streams to my droids, my linux boxes, my pc, and my mac without flaw.

[jeffgt14]

@jayw654

I had the same problem until I turned off transcoding for mp4. Then I switch the container to mp4 from whatever it was. This is much faster than re-encoding the video, works with most formats as long as the original encoding was compatible with mp4, gives me higher quality than transcoded, and allows seeking to work properly.

If you have access to a debian based linux box you can run

ffmpeg -i filename.mkv -vcodec copy -acodec copy -movflags faststart filename.mp4

Note-This will work with more than .mkv. As long as the original encode was mp4 compatible.

After this it streams to my droids, my linux boxes, my pc, and my mac without flaw.

I seem to get this error whenever I try to use the -movflags option. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

[1/21/15 1:22:03 PM CST] DEBUG InputStreamReaderThread (/var/subsonic/transcode/avconv) Option movflags not found.

[vistal]

It looks like youve done something wrong in changing your transcode settings. After you remove mp4 from transcode options it shouldnt even look at the transcode directory.

For a test you could run that command without the -movflags faststart portion and then try to watch it. That flag just specifies it should start immediately rather than waiting for the entire video to load first.

Make sure you adjust your transcode flags though and i think youll be fine.