subsonic problem: ffmpeg in 6.2.0 distribution

dsm1212 wrote:
I understand you could argue this is an addon issue, but it did work in 6.1.9.

I don't know how. The ffmpeg package has been configured this way all the way back to 6.0.0.

dsm1212 wrote:
I think what you are saying is Netgear has optimized the stock ffmpeg for readydlna, but changing a semi-standard component is not a good thing to do for an extensible system. I mean I don't want twenty ffmpegs installed.

I'm saying it's configured appropriately for the services that come with the firmware. There are also legal considerations that we have to account for. So applications like Plex must include their own ffmpeg anyway, because they use a custom configuration, and they require some functionality that we are not legally able to distribute.

dsm1212 wrote:
Otherwise installations will take forever as they have to check every single build option of every command and shared library.

I'm not sure what this means.

dsm1212 wrote:
Or all addons would need to be statically linked or include their libraries which would be way way more impactful than a few more bits to support pipe in ffmpeg :-)

If it's reasonable and legal to make a config change to ffmpeg to support more apps, we're open to doing that.

dsm1212 wrote:
Much better to provide the default build as netgear did in 6.1.9.

Again, we never did enable the pipe driver, even in 6.1.9.

dsm1212 wrote:
I tried /proc/self/fd/1 from the command line with the stock executable and it prompted me whether to overwrite /self/fd/1 or not. I was afraid to say yes so I can't tell you if that works or not.

Yes, it's safe. Use the -y option to get rid of the prompt.