The DLNA server uses FFmpeg to do the on the fly video conversion. The settings for this are held in C:\Program Files[ (x86)]\J River\Media Center 14\Plugins\ffmpeg.xml and the main one for converting / streaming video (to the PS3 etc) is the <upnpdvd> setting.
The std one MC is using is
<upnpdvd>-target ntsc-dvd -ps 2000000000</upnpdvd>For me (in PAL Land) I found that:
1) Interlaced material looked bad (you could see the separate fields)
2) High Bitrate MKV's we stuttery and we converted to low bit rates of only a couple of mbps (lower that MPG material).
Anyway, I've had a bit of a play with some of the settings as described here (
http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html ) but given my very limited ffmpeg knowledge I've not gotten very far!
My current setting is
<upnpdvd>-target dvd -ps 2000000000 -b 2000k -minrate 2000k -maxrate 4000k -g 300 -deinterlace</upnpdvd> which gives a better result with interlaced material but now some std mpg material appears as "unsupported format" on the PS3.
Has anyone else had a play with these settings, and have any worth trying (eg what about converting to 264 instead of MPEG)?
Thanks
Nathan
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Topic: DLNA & custom FFmpeg settings for Video Conversion? (Read 2253 times)