MP4 Output for ffmpeg?
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:10 am
Hello,
I have a new Samsung TV that can also play 360° material. That's a cool thing, you can look around during the video with the remote control. The footage comes from my Insta X3. The material has a resolution of 5760x2880, but the TV only supports a maximum of 4096x2160. That's why I've been saving the material scaled with ffmpeg. The Universal Media Server also supports transcoding. I have now also managed to watch the videos transcoded using the ffmpeg encoder, but unfortunately I cannot switch to 360° mode. I strongly suspect that this is only possible if the videos are in the mp4 container. But UMS transcodes to mpg! How can I tell UMS in the config that it should use the mp4 container? Unfortunately there are only the MPEGTS profiles. Maybe it works somehow with the CustomFFmpegOptions?
I have a new Samsung TV that can also play 360° material. That's a cool thing, you can look around during the video with the remote control. The footage comes from my Insta X3. The material has a resolution of 5760x2880, but the TV only supports a maximum of 4096x2160. That's why I've been saving the material scaled with ffmpeg. The Universal Media Server also supports transcoding. I have now also managed to watch the videos transcoded using the ffmpeg encoder, but unfortunately I cannot switch to 360° mode. I strongly suspect that this is only possible if the videos are in the mp4 container. But UMS transcodes to mpg! How can I tell UMS in the config that it should use the mp4 container? Unfortunately there are only the MPEGTS profiles. Maybe it works somehow with the CustomFFmpegOptions?