ogg support

[simoncn]

(29-03-2014 05:27)rojo Wrote:  Heya Simon! I've played around with around a dozen uPnP media streamers, and minimserver is by far my favorite! Thanks for all your hard work and talent.

I'm pretty excited about ogg support as well. But I was wondering, for other unimplemented formats, would it be possible just to let ffmpeg do the heavy lifting without necessarily teaching minimserver to identify every codec it streams? I apologize if this has already been discussed elsewhere. Google wasn't forthcoming about it.

Anyway, minimstreamer already supports a wildcard convention for transcoding unknown network streams. You could add another wildcard (ampersand or percent or something) for unknown local files; and just blindly spawn ffmpeg -i $infile -c:a pcm_s24le -y $fifo or whatever as a catch-all.

It'd be nice, for example, to be able to stream flv and mp4 files downloaded from YouTube as PCM. If it'd be too much of a pain to scrape the metadata from ffmpeg, I'd be happy with a caveat that unsupported media wouldn't be indexed by metadata but would only be visible by browsing the folder hierarchy.

This is an interesting idea, but I think there are a number of issues that would make it difficult for MinimServer to support unknown file formats while observing the UPnP protocols for communication with standard UPnP control points and renderers. The current '*' is not a placeholder for "unknown" but for "unspecified". I will put this on the list of possible ideas to be considered for future enhancements to MinimStreamer.

You should already be able to stream .mp4 files as PCM.