So I installed the Java addon. But where is it?

Yeah ffmpeg is huge!
What your saying though is a bummer. The one I have installed, I got from here: viewtopic.php?f=48&t=45661
Not sure if that one was yours or not. But that one works better than the one supplied on the nas albeit it has zilch as a version ID:

MainStore:/opt/serviio/log# ffmpeg -version FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg developers built on Mar 20 2011 21:32:23 with gcc 4.3.2 configuration: --enable-pthreads --disable-shared --enable-static --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame libavutil 50.36. 0 / 50.36. 0 libavcore 0.16. 1 / 0.16. 1 libavcodec 52.108. 0 / 52.108. 0 libavformat 52.93. 0 / 52.93. 0 libavdevice 52. 2. 3 / 52. 2. 3 libavfilter 1.74. 0 / 1.74. 0 libswscale 0.12. 0 / 0.12. 0

That one is stored in /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

I have another one stored in /opt/photos2/bin/ffmpeg:

MainStore:~# /opt/photos2/bin/ffmpeg -version FFmpeg version 0.6, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers built on Aug 17 2011 08:41:25 with gcc 4.5.2 configuration: --prefix=/home/hagi/photos2/backend/ffmpeg-0.6/../.out --cc=gcc --extra-cflags='-ggdb -I/home/hagi/photos2/backend/ffmpeg-0.6/../.out/include' --extra-ldflags='-Wl,-rpath,/opt/photos2/lib -L/opt/photos2/lib' --disable-stripping --disable-devices --disable-ffplay --disable-ffprobe --disable-ffserver --disable-avdevice --enable-libx264 --enable-libmp3lame --enable-gpl --enable-shared --enable-memalign-hack libavutil 50.15. 1 / 50.15. 1 libavcodec 52.72. 2 / 52.72. 2 libavformat 52.64. 2 / 52.64. 2 libswscale 0.11. 0 / 0.11. 0

But the one I just did a configure followed by a build gives:

FFmpeg version 0.6.1, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers built on Dec 14 2011 22:07:52 with gcc 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21) configuration: libavutil 50.15. 1 / 50.15. 1 libavcodec 52.72. 2 / 52.72. 2 libavformat 52.64. 2 / 52.64. 2 libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0 libswscale 0.11. 0 / 0.11. 0

The patch that I need in the latest version 0.9 fixes the following bug: https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/177
This patch apparently fixes a problem I am getting with "some", but not all .mkv files. Note that ReadyDLNA does not support these files. The neat thing about serviio is that it transcodes just about anythng and it presents itself much better than ReadyDLNA.....BTW, I found the problem I have been having that led me to this in the first place. Its the Seagate disks I am using freezing up when write-cache is enabled. Nothing to do with ReadyDLNA or any software that came from Netgear.

Anyway.... I think what your saying is I got to figure a way to compile 0.9 first and that aint going to be easy....

any pointers....hint ;)

Didn't check but you could try debian-multimedia.org

-Stefan

BTW: how does one search for stuff in the deb packages? Is there a utility to find which package contains which tool for e.g.?

Depends on what you're looking for, or to be more precise: the name of the tool that you're looking for. In general

 dpkg -S <whateverthename>

will do what you want for installed packages. If you haven't already installed the package with the tool you're searching, try http://packages.debian.org
(will have to look up current prices for "Linux 101" trainings rsn ;))

-Stefan

WhoCares? wrote:
(will have to look up current prices for "Linux 101" trainings rsn ;))

haha. too funny. But your right. your gonna get p**ssed at me ;) just tell me to bug off if I bug you too much, I will understand. I guess I need to buy a book and read up on recent linux dev techniques. The last time I messed at code level on Linux was about 6 years ago. The wheel was reinvented since then.

Hmm.. here's some interesting reading: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint ... ex.en.html

Nah, the wheel definitely hasn't been reinvented. It's still configure - make - make install, basically. It's just that most of the current distros have their own way of wrapping things. And since the ReadyNAS is built on Debian, it makes sense to build packages their we - and be it only because they're a lot easier to remove and upgrade using the dpkg system. Well, at least I find it to be a lot easier, others may have a different opinion there.

-Stefan