[coherence-dev] Supported device ++1 // transcoding question

[Frank Scholz]

Hi Vincent.


> My DLNA-client is the Philips 37PFL9903D/10, which can be added to the
> list of supported devices.
thanks, I'll do that.

> MP3's are displayed in their folders and are played smoothly. FLAC's are
> not played (my TV lists them as not supported).
you probably need to activate transcoding for that. See below.

> I do have a question regarding video, since my TV tells me I have no
> supported formats on my server (only MPEG 1 and 2 are supported) - I
> never read anything about the current state of transcoding in Coherence,
> nor about the support for video files.
transcoding for audio is available and working.

To activate that you need to have GStreamer and its Python bindings
installed, and set the Coherence option transcoding to 'yes'.
Either in the config file or on the commandline with
/usr/bin/coherence -o transcoding:yes

I'm not 100% pleased about the transcoding internals yet, that's why
transcoding isn't yet officially propagated.

Transcoding for video is work-in-progress, I hope we can add there
some first attempts soon.

> PS: I read somewhere that 0.6.2 is to be released soon, but the download
> page doesn't list a 0.6.1-release...
the odd-numbered revision major.minor.x is unstable svn trunk.
On every release we change the revision part to an even number again.

Regards,
Frank