transcoding issues

[dcorwin822]

Hi everyone. I'm trying to get ffmpeg to work on my ubuntu 9.10 system. I built ffmpeg from the SVN and I am trying to get the program to transcode using this following suggestion
http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtop ... e+lossless

I only have M4A (apple lossless) and MP3s in my music directory. So this is pretty much all i need it for and i can't seem to get it to work. Mp3s work fine.

I chmod 0755 the ffmpeg and the script in my transcode folder at /var/subsonic/transcode

[colli419]

dcorwin822:

I am using a similar operating environment but went about setting it up a bit differently. I also have a lot of m4a files on my box because some of my users are mac-infested... Either way, the best way that I found to do this was faad. You can run:

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sudo apt-get install faad

then copy the executable from your /usr/ to your transcode directory then run:

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sudo chown -R yourname:yourgroup transcode

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sudo chmod -R 775 transcode

Then use these settings in your transcoding tab:
Step 1) "faad -o - %s"
Step 2) "lame -h -b %b - -"