From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 28 17:27:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F16341065670 for ; Fri, 28 May 2010 17:27:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arab@tangerine-army.co.uk) Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AB1A8FC23 for ; Fri, 28 May 2010 17:27:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.23.170.144] (helo=anti-virus03-07) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1OI3L4-00076y-Dd for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 May 2010 18:27:18 +0100 Received: from [94.168.170.153] (helo=Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl) by asmtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1OI3L3-00062V-Qj for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 May 2010 18:27:17 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 18:27:17 +0100 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Message-ID: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392904F79D@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> In-reply-to: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Media streaming Thread-Index: Acr9/ESn/Bero7xNTU68VJqaQJfCHQAjDl3Q References: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392904F79A@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl><003601cafdd1$fe98cf20$fbca6d60$@ca><01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392904F79C@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> From: "Graeme Dargie" Cc: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: RE: Media streaming X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 17:27:20 -0000 =20 =20 From: Adam Vande More [mailto:amvandemore@gmail.com]=20 Sent: 28 May 2010 01:25 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Media streaming =20 On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Graeme Dargie wrote: Okies well so far I have tried mediatomb, the TV sees the server but gives the same message as with ushare "this server does not support" be useful if it said what it didn't support but there we go.=20 I've used mediatomb fairly regularly. I stream to my ps3 and it works quite well but it is quite picky about format of the video. Check to make sure yours meets the specs. I don't know of anything that does transcoding "on-demand" if I understand your desires correctly. The video must be in the correct format to be streamed. Finding the "correct format" required trial and error and a lot of time. I suggest splitting off like 30 secs of a file and getting that work. After that, you can re-encode the files you want streamed. --=20 Adam Vande More =20 Hi Adam, =20 I can happily stream to my xbox 360 via ushare it seems to be fine with xvid and divx encoded avi`s. My Sony Television on the other hand supports only mpeg2, avchd I did re-encode 1 file to mpeg2 and it plays fine but not via BSD only via win 7 and wmp12 but that really is not a viable option for me as I have 640gb of media files that would require this treatment. The TV streams ok via win 7 and wmp12 that would have been acceptable solution if it were not for two major niggles with that solution, it will not play a file to the TV that does not reside on the local system, all of my media is on a ZFS raidz pool on FreeBSD 8.0 and I have to use the PC to start the playing of the file. I have also tried mezzamo on win 7 which is only a trial, on the limited testing I have tried it has a nasty habit of just stopping streaming, sometimes it takes 3 or 4 goes to get a file to play through, but at least that one lets me select via the television. =20 I will keep hunting, there will be a solution somewhere . =20 Regards =20 Graeme=20 =20