MKV Transcoding

[gneville]

Hello All,

Just setup Subsonic today, and im impressed.

I've managed to intergrate it into Apache using mod_proxy and all works well.

I can stream MP3's fine and I have even streamed mpegs and avi files using ffmpeg and on-the-fly transcoding.

One thing that I havent been able to do is on-the-fly mkv transcoding. I can't seem to find the correct program and switches in order for it to work.
Have tried mencoder and ffmpeg, best result I had was about 8 seconds of video and audio then it just stopped.

Has anyone here been able to transcode mkv files to avi or other, so you can watch them remotely?

Thanks

[braddyo]

You might try ffmpeg binary since it could be set up to transcode from mkv (chances are ffmpeg can decode what's in an mkv container) to flv.

VLC might work as well. As long as it has a command line interface and supports stdin/out it should work...

[Arrogance]

Could you outline the steps you took to set up ffmpeg for transcoding? I don't know anything about how to do this and I've been up one side of the internet and down the other trying to find specific settings I'll need to put into Subsonic to be able to transcode video files on the fly so that I can watch them from outside the network.

[mhendu]

I'm not able to get MKV files to play correctly either. Also, external players don't seem to work, but the Flash player works OK for AVI and MP4 files. I'm running Subsonic 4.1, using the following command for transcoding:

ffmpeg -re -y -i %s -ar 44100 -sameq -deinterlace -f flv -