Just JPEG transcoding available (MacBook Pro)

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akogler
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Just JPEG transcoding available (MacBook Pro)

Post by akogler » Sun May 15, 2011 1:55 pm

Hello together,

after searching one hour in the web without finding any solution for my problem I would like to ask some twonky experts in this board. I am using twonky on my Macbook Pro (OSX 10.6) in combination with my Samsung C750. Everything works well except the transcoding option.

I can just enable / disable JPEG transcoding. Music and Video transcoding is not available and I dont know why. Does anyone have an idea?

Best regards,
Andy

ikbentomas
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Townky Server 6.0.32

Re: Just JPEG transcoding available (MacBook Pro)

Post by ikbentomas » Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:09 pm

I am experiencing the exact same problem.
Here you have my details:
TwonkyMedia version: 6.0.32
Server hardware: Intel Atom 330, 1Gb RAM
Operating System: Windows Server 2008 R2
If you are running as a system service (Windows only): Yes

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Re: Just JPEG transcoding available (MacBook Pro)

Post by Twonky_Rick » Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:07 pm

You need to install a third-party transcoding engine before this option is un-grayed.

Mac Transcoding Tips:

This is how we got TwonkyServer on the Mac to work with FFmpeg:

1. Download and open the ffmpegX.dmg from the web
2. Drag the ffmpegX (app) to the Applications folder
3. Right click or CTRL+click on the TwonkyMediaServer app in Applications folder
4. Select Show Package Contents from dropdown menu
5. Navigate to the .../TwonkyMediaServer.app/MediaServer/cgi-bin
6. Open the ffmpeg.location file with a text editor
7. Modify the content of the file to read "/Applications/ffmpegX.app/Contents/Resources/" (without quotes) and save
8. After restarting TMS will the options to transcode be available in TMS's configuration page

More info on this topic here:
http://www.twonkyforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... 714#p22749

If this is too hard for you to setup, you might want to upgrade to TwonkyServer 7.0 which will have transcoding built-in.

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