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hiya

I've just installed debian on my HP Microserver and got twokny working in a limited fashion
i can't seem to get the transcoding to work

I'm running debian 6.0.2 (stable) with debian multimedia repo
it's x86_64 install

I've tried to install lame and ffmpg

I expected when I install lame that mp3 encoding would work but it's still greyed out

and I expected that editing ffmpeg.location and installing ffmpeg would work

so any tips or hints would be fantastic as I'd really like to buy twonky

I don't know much about this device but I'm not sure if it has enough processing power to do realtime transcoding of video.

- Rick

Processor1 x AMD Athlon II Neo N36L / 1.3 GHz ( Dual-Core )
Cache Memory2 MB L2 Cache
8GB ram
10TB hard drive

http://www.dabs.com/products/hp-prolian ... icroserver

should have enough power to convert files but i just don't get the option

There have been other threads where it has been reported that transcoding doesn't work if Twonky is running in the background - see this thread for details on how to resolve that.

I worked it out in the end

I needed to copy ffmpeg in to the cgi-bin dir and restart the server


cd /usr/local/twonkymedia/cgi-bin
which ffmpeg
# /usr/bin/ffmpeg
cp /usr/bin/ffmpeg .

by having the binary of ffmpeg in the cgi-bin it enabled video transcode
now I have to work out mp3 transcoding before my trail is up

It would have been easier to edit the file telling it where to find ffmpeg. Now if you upgrade ffmpeg your transcoding may mysteriously break. Edit ffmpeg.location and replace the contents with /usr/bin. You can do that by:

tried that it does nothing,
a fix was to ln -sf the file to the cgi-bin folder