Questions after installing on Linux Mint

[stig.chr...@gmail.com]

Thanks for your free media server, my first impression is very good.

I noticed that if LimboMedia indexes a video file while I was still copying it to the disk it was not recognized properly (mp4 h264, AAC). Icon was wrong and it would not work with the web player. It would be great if I could click "re-index" or remove. My workaround was to delete the file, re-index, copy the file again and then re-index.

I have also tried the DLNA/UPnP share and it worked fine with a UPnP APP on iphone sending it to Chromecast on my TV.

But I cannot get Windows Media Player on Windows to see the videos files even though it sees the "LimboMedia Server". The list is empty.

My TV which has native DLNA/UPnP support sees the videos but cannot play them. Unfortunately the error message isn't very informative (bad input file).

[LimboMedia]

Hi and thanks for your feedback.

I think we'll add your first idea (re-index button) in one of the next releases.

When it comes to DLNA/UPnP things are getting a bit more complicated. First of all it's nice to hear that even iphone with chromecast does works, since we never tested such a scenario.
Windows Media Player is a special candidate since Microsoft is very good in NOT implementing standards (UPnP/DLNA) the right way. To be honest: We're to lazy to spend a lot of work in debugging these Microsoft-Specials as long as there are much better and standard-compliant alternatives like Kodi.

Maybe you could tell us your TV-Model, so we could check specs. Maybe there's something special about its UPnP/DLNA support. Maybe it simply doesn't support your video format/codec. Remember that there's no UPnP/DLNA transcoding in LimboMedia.

Hope this helps you.

[stig.chr...@gmail.com]

To bad UPnP/DLNA isn't that easy - I know what you are up against implementing support for non standard players.

Wouldn't it be easy to add all transcoded videos to the UPnP/DLNA feed/share?

Have you tried to play via UPnP/DLNA to Chromecast with external subtitles?

Can transcoding be set up to hard-burn external subtitles?