On Sat, 2018-08-11 at 21:55 -0700, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I found a viable Plex alternative that runs perfectly on OpenBSD > called > 'Serviio'. It does DLNA with on the fly media transcoding / remuxing > and > also has an HTML5 media player.
Thanks for the info. I have been using minidlna and sambad which are both fine so far for my purposes. The only thing that is missing from minidlna for me is the ability to stream .dss and .dsf audio. Somebody has been maintaining a patch tree to support this for a few years but for some reason it has not been incorporated into whatever the main branch is. I don't get why anybody would want transcoding in 2018. My own use case is high res audio and I absolutely don't want to kill sound quality by transcoding. I don't do much video but I also don't get it why anybody would be happy about reducing video quality given how cheap bandwidth is these days. > I've rewritten the install guide from the official Serviio website > to > instead run Serviio as a separate user, use a better install > location > and not grab the full jdk. I mentioned Serviio a few days ago on a > ports@ thread and several people messaged me privately asking for my > write up on Serviio; I hope others can get some use and enjoyment out > of > this, so I thought I would share it here for others to see as well. > > Link to Guide: > > www.geoghegan.ca/serviio.html Thanks. I will definitely look at it! /jl
