Subsonic Forum

I recently upgraded to subsonic 6. In the new version I can only play.mp4 videos in the web player.

When I try to play an avi or mkv, I only get a loading bar with three dots, but the video will never play. The load on the server seems to go up if I start transcoding, so the transcode job is doing something.
There are no errors in the subsonic log. Only a message that the transcode started.

I am using the recommended live streaming command from the website.
I tried with the original transcode setting from subsonic 5.3 and later I changed the transcode to put out mp4
I have also tried the transcoder from the chromecast output post with mkv and mp4 output.
This is the current transcoding command that I am using:
ffmpeg -ss %o -i %s -c:v libx264 -preset superfast -b:v %bk -c:a aac -strict -2 -f mp4 -threads 0 -

a few more details about my environment:
- I am using the tomcat version of subsonic.
- The video folder from the configuration is writable , but nothing seems to get written there.
- My media share is not writable for subsonic
- tomcat is running within an LXC container


Can any of you share transcoding settings that will let me stream avi and mkv videos with the web player?

Ok the issue is resolved. It did not like the static ffmpeg I was using (even though it worked fine with subsonic 5).

I am now using a somewhat older one I still had and everything is working as expected.