On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 22:39:12 +0100 (GMT+01:00) BD dzidek23@gmail.com allegedly wrote:

Hi

So I have this headless Debian machine serving miniDLNA on my network.

There's good few hundred GB files in its library but I have a problematic bunch too. A very old cache of mpc files that don't want to play.

Does anyone have a way to either force miniDLNA to transcode the files on the fly or to convert those file in place (preferably retaining files structure).

Hi Bart

I gave up using minidlna some time ago and moved initially to mediatomb, then (briefly) to UMS and now use jellyfin because it handles all my media files and has a nice administrative interface and can stream to any DLNA device as well as a full range of jellyfin clients. It is worth investigating.

As for your MPC files (which I assume are old media player classic files) I'd look at using ffmpeg to convert them to MP4 format. I don't have any such files to test this on though.

Cheers

Mick

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