Hi all,
So I have been playing with MiniDLNA, and Plex both in a server role on FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE 64 bit.
I like both, and it's obvious both have their strengths and weaknesses. If you boil it down, at the end of the day many of us are trying to achieve on thing: serve (stream) audio/video media files to our client devices. Without going into a big long discussion, I'll get right to the point.
Is there a port for FreeBSD for a media file transcoder? In this post I am not interested nor talking about transcoding on the fly. I am talking about having an 'app' find files in a folder that are one type of format, say .avi for example, and then transcoding that file into .mp4 for example. Ideally the user could set it up in such a way that many formats types are in the input, but only a couple types have been selected to be the output, say .mp3, and .mp4 for example.
And of course the various 'knobs' would be there so that the user can get the desired output media type.
A port like this would like this would be very useful not just for home users, but I think a fair few commercial applications too. Does such a port exist? I quick search revealed only one: arista which has been marked broken. That looks to be made for GNOME2 but I am more interested in something for server/appliance/headless type use, i.e access and configure it either GUI or HTTP access.
So I have been playing with MiniDLNA, and Plex both in a server role on FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE 64 bit.
I like both, and it's obvious both have their strengths and weaknesses. If you boil it down, at the end of the day many of us are trying to achieve on thing: serve (stream) audio/video media files to our client devices. Without going into a big long discussion, I'll get right to the point.
Is there a port for FreeBSD for a media file transcoder? In this post I am not interested nor talking about transcoding on the fly. I am talking about having an 'app' find files in a folder that are one type of format, say .avi for example, and then transcoding that file into .mp4 for example. Ideally the user could set it up in such a way that many formats types are in the input, but only a couple types have been selected to be the output, say .mp3, and .mp4 for example.
And of course the various 'knobs' would be there so that the user can get the desired output media type.
A port like this would like this would be very useful not just for home users, but I think a fair few commercial applications too. Does such a port exist? I quick search revealed only one: arista which has been marked broken. That looks to be made for GNOME2 but I am more interested in something for server/appliance/headless type use, i.e access and configure it either GUI or HTTP access.