On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 11:30:52AM -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > I know minidlna is in ports, but it doesn't do on the fly media > transcoding/remuxing with FFmpeg nor does it have an integrated HTML5 video > player like Serviio does. I tried minidlna, but it unfortunately doesnt work > for me as my devices need the transcoding/remuxing feature that Serviio > offers. For example, my bluray player refuses to playback most video > containers over DLNA (mp4, mkv etc) but will play most video formats (AVC, > Xvid, mpeg2 etc) all it needs is for the video files to be remuxed into an > M2TS or AVI container, which Serviio is able to do on the fly without > transcoding. It's also useful for making my H265 content available on my > older devices that don't natively support the newer codecs/containers. I > also quite enjoy the HTML5 video player, as it allows me to watch my movies > on the go. It's annoying that it's proprietary, but at least it works well > on OpenBSD.
Tip: devices like android tablets or the XBox One don't necessarily advertize it, but they DO have VLC, and it's fairly happy with most x265 content. The only issue I've had with ldna service so far is the need to remux subtitles into an mp4/mkv because separate .srt files do not work. That's fairly easy to do and rather permanent. Out of a fairly large sample of video files, I can say that VLC on those devices handles everything but maybe 0.05%.
