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MinimStreamer with avconv on Ubuntu server - bruemmer - 09-07-2016 10:52
I have implemented the transcoding bundle avconv on my Ubuntu 14.04 server.
Having set up a playlist with various German radio stations I wanted to transcode the radio streams to wav (stream transcode: *:wav) using the avconv bundle. MinimStreamer recognized avconf after I used stream.converter: /usr/bin/avconv.
Sometimes I succeed, but very often I get errors while invoking a radio station.
Any ideas what's going wrong?
I have added a log and my sytem preferences below
Rainer
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RE: MinimStreamer with avconv on Ubuntu server - simoncn - 09-07-2016 17:17
I can see some I/O errors in the log when MinimStreamer starts sending the transcoded stream to the renderer. This means there is some problem either with the renderer or with the network. MinimStreamer and MinimServer are working correctly.
RE: MinimStreamer with avconv on Ubuntu server - bruemmer - 10-07-2016 10:45
Hi Simon,
thanks for your analysis.
To be honest I installed avconv on my Ubuntu-server (ffmpeg is not recommended for Ubuntu 14.04) without really knowing what I did; maybe something went wrong. I will probably purge avconv again from my server.
Regards Rainer
RE: MinimStreamer with avconv on Ubuntu server - simoncn - 10-07-2016 21:44
I don't think the problem is related to avconv. If it were, I would expect to see some error message from avconv in the log.
You said that you succeed sometimes in playing radio stations. Do some stations always succeed and other stations always fail, or does a station succeed on some attempts and fail on other attempts?
RE: MinimStreamer with avconv on Ubuntu server - bruemmer - 11-07-2016 09:06
Everything seems to work properly now with avconv.
I deleted the stream.converter and stream.transcode input out of System Properties, restarted minimserver. Then I filled stream.transcode with "*:wav" and stream.converter was automatically filled with "avconv". I restarted minimserver again.
Now everything works as expected.... miracle, miracle.
Thanks again for your input.
Rainer