Installing FFmpeg on a ReadyNAS Duo

[simoncn]

(04-09-2014 16:07)DavidHB Wrote:  I'd like to be able to set the stream.transcode property for the MinimServer installation on my ReadyNAS Duo (which has an ARM processor). The problem is that neither FFmpeg nor Libav appear to be installed on this NAS.

The browser-based user interface for the ReadyNAS (Frontview) does not provide any means of installing packages other than those produced in the .bin format required by its installer. Even some of those (though allegedly ARM-compatible) will not install under the current versions of the firmware.

The relevant guidance in the MinimStreamer User Guide is as follows:
"For many transcoding combinations (noted in the list below), the stream.converter property needs to be set. This property can be set to avconv to use Libav as a transcoding converter or ffmpeg to use FFmpeg as a transcoding converter. The transcoding converter program specified in this property must be installed on the computer or NAS that is running MinimStreamer, and it must be available in one of the directories in the PATH environment variable."

Unfortunately, I don't know how to (or whether I can) apply this to the Linux installation on my NAS. I can log on to the CLI of the NAS as root using SSH (and getting that far was something of a journey of discovery), but I'm not going to get any further without specific information on which FFmpeg package to use and how to install it. Does anyone have this information?

Thanks in advance.

David

I haven't found a solution for this. The Debian version of ffmpeg (available via apt-get) won't install because some of its dependent libraries have been replaced by "hacked" NETGEAR versions instead of the standard Debian versions.