Re: Changing container format and/or audio codec on the fly

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Fr, 2013-08-09 at 15:05 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
> I recently got a Blu Ray/Home Cinema system which includes a DLNA
> client, but it refused to play any .mkv or even .avi over DLNA, but it
> did work with a .mp4 I had from BBC iPlayer (downloaded with
> get_iplayer). Most of the .mkvs do play correctly with my TV's DLNA
> client, but it has problems with high quality 1080p and I was hoping the
> new player might be able to play those. Both are the same make,
> Panasonic.
>
> I used avconv to convert a .mkv to .mp4 and the player was then able to
> play the video, but there was no sound, so it looks like I also need to
> transcode the audio from AC3 to M4A. I think my HTPC should be able to
> manage that in terms of CPU power, but is there a way to get Rygel to do
> this on the fly? I tried reading man rygel.conf but couldn't find the
> information I need.

Rygel does a very low-quality (15fps, 320x240) on-the-fly conversion to
H.264/AAC already.

I'm afraid there's no way to do this by configuration, but you could try
to tweak this by modifying
src/media-engines/gstreamer/rygel-avc-transcoder.vala.