January 19, 201313 yr I've just got Headphones installed on my unRAID 4.7 server and so far loving it. However if I could get the transcoding part working this would really simplify my workflow from downloading FLAC files and converting so music can be used by Apple devices. From doing a bit of reading it seems that ffmpeg has a huge amount of dependancy packages and a bit of a pain to install. However I did read that if I install Airvideo this will install all the dependencies along with ffmpeg for me. Would this be the simplest way to achieve this? Looking at my unRAID server I may of played with Airvideo in the past as an old version of 2.2.5 alpha4 seems to be on there and there is a directory for ffmpeg in my /boot/packages folder. Again from doing some reading I don't believe ffmpeg was added into the path during that install so is this a case of typing; PATH=$PATH:/boot/packages/ffmpeg: export PATH Also as this is a very old version of Airvideo, should I reinstall and therefore upgrade all packages?
January 19, 201313 yr I've just got Headphones installed on my unRAID 4.7 server and so far loving it. However if I could get the transcoding part working this would really simplify my workflow from downloading FLAC files and converting so music can be used by Apple devices. From doing a bit of reading it seems that ffmpeg has a huge amount of dependancy packages and a bit of a pain to install. However I did read that if I install Airvideo this will install all the dependencies along with ffmpeg for me. Would this be the simplest way to achieve this? Looking at my unRAID server I may of played with Airvideo in the past as an old version of 2.2.5 alpha4 seems to be on there and there is a directory for ffmpeg in my /boot/packages folder. Again from doing some reading I don't believe ffmpeg was added into the path during that install so is this a case of typing; PATH=$PATH:/boot/packages/ffmpeg: export PATH Also as this is a very old version of Airvideo, should I reinstall and therefore upgrade all packages? I needed ffmpeg for a different addon, but did not have much luck with the old alien package. I found this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=21260.msg201577#msg201577 where there are only 2 dependencies & used it. It is working for me. As you can see from my sig, I am also on a different unRAID version than you, so your results may differ. Might be worth checking out, so I wanted to share the link.
January 19, 201313 yr Author Many thanks for your reply. I had also stumbled across that post during my searches and I may well give this ago later but I was worried about the unRAID version as this was based on 5. I have since found that the version I have on my system does work and I didn't need to update the path as Headphones allows for the path to ffmpeg to be input directly in it's own setup. So I almost have this working but I have an issue with once the transcode is complete Headphones deletes the directory before moving the new .mpg files! I've posted this problem over on the Headphones forum.
February 8, 201313 yr Just wanted to note that I had similar issues getting my flac files transcoded in Headphones and it was solved for me by upgrading lame to 3.99.5 (can't remember where I found that). (Thread on the headphones forums is here) http://headphones.codeshy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1538&sid=e8fd404744f2d364919e150445b7b5b9
March 8, 201313 yr Author Just wanted to say thanks botez as I finally upgraded my version of Lame to 3.99.5 and it now works Thanks man. Shame the Headphones forum as disappeared as well as the VIP musicbrainz mirror Just found a thread on the github site and an alternative mirror has been hosted and rembo10 is back on the case
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