Re: mediaserv: on-demand video transcoding
 

And/OR

setting to limit number of mencode processes to 1 (or 2 or 3, etc),
for slower machines. Connecting to a video, then disconnecting, and connecting to a second one, on a slow machine, becomes unwatchable on the second video, since the machine is still grinding away at the first video _and_ the second one.

Also:

bug report - in the browser, clicking on the thumbnail seems to not correctly load the video (to open/save), while clicking on the title does.

Re: mediaserv: on-demand video transcoding
 

Any idea why these encodes take about a minute to open in mplayer or the default media app? I download the entire show to SD storage and then watch it so it's not a streaming issue. The non-encoded original avi files open up right away.

Re: mediaserv: on-demand video transcoding
 

That's very odd - since the HTML looks like:

I'll investigate.

Re: mediaserv: on-demand video transcoding
 

anyway to get mediaserv to work with dvd images like iso img?

Re: mediaserv: on-demand video transcoding
 

Not sure if a post here or at the garage will be seen first:

I'm having the same problem as chilli_peppa in this thread.

Despite not being connected to the mediaserv anymore (from any source), transcoding continues until the file is done. I'm attaching the log file of me watching about 3 seconds of a movie, then waiting an additional 3 minutes for the transcoding to stop. At that point, I killall mencoder and killall mediaserv. I removed extraneous lines, and saved as .txt so the forum would let me attach it.

Thanks

-alien

Re: mediaserv: on-demand video transcoding
 

I'm really excited about this software, however I have two problems;

1) I've added my MythTV setup information, however when I browse to http://server:8090 I see all the media directories, however no MythTV link.

2) I can't see the trascoded output -- both on a 770 as well as through VLC. On my linux server I see the transcoder starting, memcoder is active and taking lots of CPU, but no output. VLC just sits there, I can't view the video in safari.

I'd appreciate any help, as I would love to get the streaming and MythTB working!!!

Re: mediaserv: on-demand video transcoding
 

A little more progress on this:

I can see the myth recordings if I add a symlink to the mythtv rec directory inside $basedir. (my mythtv setup is on a separate disk). Ideally it would be nice for mediaserv to notice if mythDir is outside baseDir and add a 'MythTV' folder at the root.

I can play the transcoded video stream via Mplayer on a laptop (hooray). this was a transcoded MPEG2 file from mythtv. However, when I try on the 770 I get a 'codec not supported' error in the media centre. I'm using the lasted OS2007HE

Re: mediaserv: on-demand video transcoding
 

I use mplayer to play the files HP770 seems to work better and os 2008

Re: mediaserv: on-demand video transcoding
 

Getting an odd problem here. This is pretty much out of the box configuration; mediaserv is working.

However, I must access it by the hostname as known by the computer running the server. That is, dmccall-laptop.local. If I access it by IP address (192.168.1.120) I am redirected to 192.168.1.120-laptop.local, which is neither the right hostname nor the right IP address... it is simply nonsense.
For some reason, Maemo does not resolve local hostnames out of the box (and I still have not figured out how to make it do so, or if it is even possible. Alas, this thread has not helped). Adding dmccall-laptop.local to /etc/hosts and then accessing the server with that did the trick, but I find doing so very unfortunate and ugly. Why is it behaving like this?

Re: mediaserv: on-demand video transcoding
 

Things like the RSS feed require the full URL to be known. mediaserv asks the OS for this and - if it's misconfigured - will get the wrong value.

Modify the config file in ~/.mediaserv to set "url = 'http://192.168.1.120:8090'".

Hope that helps,

Andrew