#9 Streaming transcoded MPC/APE files to MP3 in webplayer

[Dan Liew]

Subsonic version: 4.0.1 (build 1524) – May 13, 2010
ffmpeg version: FFmpeg version SVN-r23619, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers
built on Jul 11 2010 19:49:13 with gcc 4.5.0 20100610 (prerelease)
configuration: --prefix=/usr --enable-gpl --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libvpx --enable-libtheora --enable-postproc --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-x11grab --enable-libopencore_amrnb --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-libfaad --disable-debug
libavutil 50.19. 0 / 50.19. 0
libavcodec 52.76. 0 / 52.76. 0
libavformat 52.68. 0 / 52.68. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libavfilter 1.20. 0 / 1.20. 0
libswscale 0.11. 0 / 0.11. 0
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FFmpeg SVN-r23619
libavutil 50.19. 0 / 50.19. 0
libavcodec 52.76. 0 / 52.76. 0
libavformat 52.68. 0 / 52.68. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libavfilter 1.20. 0 / 1.20. 0
libswscale 0.11. 0 / 0.11. 0
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0

LAME version: LAME 32bits version 3.98.4
Firefox version: 3.6.6

Trying to transcode MPC or APE encoded files to MP3 for streaming to web player is broken in firefox. Transcode is as follows

ffmpeg -i %s -f wav | lame -b %b - -

Streaming in the webplayer in firefox appears to be broken. In Chromium it seemed to work for me and others have reported that IE works okay too.

Streaming to external players works okay too. I've found a bad fix that involves replacing the web player (JW 5.0.753) with a newer version JW 5.2.1151. This breaks the song times displayed however streaming MPC or APE transcodes appear to work.

See this forum post for more information:
http://www.activeobjects.no/subsonic/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2939&sid=59bdbd694758029e388110894fe6c24f