#318 No video support with certain ffmpeg versions

[Bernd]

Hi,

it seems that there is no video support with newer ffmpeg versions after compilation and installation of minidlna. The music and picture files

I had the following behaviour with the raspberry pi 2 (environment: Raspbian GNU/Linux 8.0) according to the table below.

**ffmpeg ver.   minidlna ver.   video support?**    
2.8         1.1.5           yes             
2.8         1.2.1           yes             
2.8.4       1.2.1           yes             
3.2.2       1.2.1           no          
3.4         1.2.1           no

Therefore I installed ffmpeg 3.4 after compilation of minidlna 1.2.1 with ffmpeg 2.8.4 as workaround, but this is not a real solution.

Could that be fixed in the next release?

Thanks.

[Justin Maggard]

I'll need more info than that. I've been building against ffmpeg 3.x (including 3.4 and 3.4.1) for a while now, and video support is working fine.

[Bernd]

I checked it also with another evirmonment (ubuntu). After compilation/installation of ffmpeg and minidlna I made a full media rescan (minidlna -R) to force a rescan. The result is unfortunately the same behaviur. The ffmpeg 2.8.x (e.g 2.8.9) version works with video support and ffmpeg 3.4.x (e.g. 3.4.1) does not work.

I compiled the ffmpeg variants with h264 support (see details below).

ffmpeg version 2.8.9 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 5.4.0 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5) 20160609
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --enable-libvpx
  libavutil      54. 31.100 / 54. 31.100
  libavcodec     56. 60.100 / 56. 60.100
  libavformat    56. 40.101 / 56. 40.101
  libavdevice    56.  4.100 / 56.  4.100
  libavfilter     5. 40.101 /  5. 40.101
  libswscale      3.  1.101 /  3.  1.101
  libswresample   1.  2.101 /  1.  2.101
  libpostproc    53.  3.100 / 53.  3.100

ffmpeg version 3.4.1 Copyright (c) 2000-2017 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 5.4.0 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5) 20160609
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --enable-libvpx
  libavutil      55. 78.100 / 55. 78.100
  libavcodec     57.107.100 / 57.107.100
  libavformat    57. 83.100 / 57. 83.100
  libavdevice    57. 10.100 / 57. 10.100
  libavfilter     6.107.100 /  6.107.100
  libswscale      4.  8.100 /  4.  8.100
  libswresample   2.  9.100 /  2.  9.100
  libpostproc    54.  7.100 / 54.  7.100