I just want to be able to play my WMA files from about 500 CDs on my Blu-Ray player attached to a receiver. Every other DLNA server I tried (Win7, mezzmo) works so they must do the transcoding for me. TwonkyServer is much quicker at listing the media and has better categorization (plus that's customizable), but Twonky seems to require a lot of assembly. From what I can gather I need all of the following:
1) an app that can do the transcoding. I have tried mplayer/mencoder, ffmpeg and vlc with no luck on any of them. Trying to get just ffmpeg working.
2) editing the .location file as instructed - that at least is straightforward
3) trying to figure out the .desc files - here's ffmpeg-wma-lpcm.desc
# transcode video (wma to lpcm)
#(c) 2008 by PacketVideo
exec: ffmpeg -i $infile -f s16be $outfile
# capabilities
from=audio/x-ms-wma
to=audio/L16
dlnaprofile=LPCM
asynchronous
4) modifying the clients.db databse because it does not show my player as supporting audio. I added the MT: line which I think is supposed to force transcoding? and MP3, LCMD at the end of the TR: line.
NA:Sony Blu-Ray Player
HH:Blu-ray Disc Player
XM:DLNA15
TR:JPEGORG,JPEG160x160,JPEG640x480,JPEG1024x768,JPEG1920x1080,MP3,LPCM
FR:video/avi:MPEG_PS_PAL,video/avi:MPEG_PS_NTSC
MT:wma audio/x-ms-wma
DB:AUTO
So what am I still not getting? Do I have to tell it to use ffmpeg? Is there a better option?
Help!