I got on-the-fly transcoding to work:). Here are the settings to get Sopcast working.
Use Wild Media Server
Setup Sopcast stream using technique described in WMS forum Sopcast thread:
http://wildmediaserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=63
Set transcoding file parameters to:
Extension - mpg...
All static content plays fine (avi, mpg, mpeg etc) but any attempt to play anything transcoded on-the-fly fails with the error message "Cannot support this file format". Attempting to play these same videos on my Windows 7 PC works fine and if I use the same parameters to manually transcode the...
Here is how to play .mkv (H.264/AC3) files on the Hummy, with full rew/ffwd functionality and no loss of quality.
1) Demux the .mkv file using MKVExtract - this will give two output files, *.264 & *.ac3
2) Mux the two output file to .mp4 using MP4Box.
This should also work for any file...
I reckon that the problem with HD files that cannot JUMP/SKIP is that they are variable bit rate. The reason I think this is because I used Mediainfo to look at the .ts files I created by muxing. The vlc.txt shows the file created by vlc (This file can SKIP/JUMP but has poor video quality)...
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