Raspberry Pi w/Raspian Support Needed

[pbouthil]

I have been experimenting with UMS and Raspberry Pi with Raspian for a bit now and I have to say that UMS has great potential working on the Pi. I installed UMS (latest version) on the Pi and was able to stream .avi, .mkv and .mp4 videos to my dlna server on my Android phone with out any issues (no studdering or buffering) without the Pi MPEG2 or VLC Codecs. I did buy both codecs later to experiment further on hardware coding to see if the stream would improve in any way but didn't see any difference. My problem is that I am unable to stream videos successfully to any other dlna devices I have like smart TV or smart Blu-ray player in any format. UMS will render the devices and I can see the video files but when trying to play the video the device will respond with "file can't be played or is corrupted". I'm thinking that UMS is not transcoding the video on the fly. Please help with this. I'm trying to get this working to replace Plex that I use on my desktop PC. Thx

Paul

[infidel]

I got one of these for Christmas too but haven't had a chance to play with it much, other than experimenting a bit with xbmc (by itself and as a renderer for UMS which is serving from my PC). To get UMS transcoding to work (apologies if you already know this) you would first need transcoder binaries compiled for the Pi (e.g. ffmpeg). Even with that in place, it's highly doubtful that you would get enough "juice" for real time transcoding anyway. As a benchmark, just compiling ffmpeg, which takes 10-15 minutes on a pc, apparently takes 9 hours if you try it on the Pi (according to the link), so it would seem the math is against us.