How to stream or play mp4-videos with mt-daapd and itunes ?

[Anonymous]

Good morning!

I have searched and read this forum up and down, but i am not sure about that what i have found:

Can mt-daapd (Nighly Version 1519) stream videos?

I have one for testing and it works fine if i import and play it with itunes. If i save this one in the folder with the mp3-files and do a scan, nothing happens. Then i added the extension .mp4 to the list behind the variable “extensions”, do another scan and it appears when i connect my itunes to mt-daapd … but it will not played in itunes.

What must i do or configure that it works … if it is possible …

Bye
Alhifi

BTW: Sorry for my bad english, it’s very early in the morning (here) and i am very tired after hours of testing that.

[rpedde]

@Alhifi wrote:

Good morning!

I have searched and read this forum up and down, but i am not sure about that what i have found:

Can mt-daapd (Nighly Version 1519) stream videos?

I have one for testing and it works fine if i import and play it with itunes. If i save this one in the folder with the mp3-files and do a scan, nothing happens. Then i added the extension .mp4 to the list behind the variable “extensions”, do another scan and it appears when i connect my itunes to mt-daapd … but it will not played in itunes.

What must i do or configure that it works … if it is possible …

Bye
Alhifi

BTW: Sorry for my bad english, it’s very early in the morning (here) and i am very tired after hours of testing that.

It should work. If you have iTunes 2Gb. Other than that, it should work though.

I have found it works better with iTunes 7.2.

— Ron

[Anonymous]

hi ron,

thank you for your quick answer … but it doen’t really help.

Now i’ve installed iTunes 7.3 as client to be sure that it works, you wrote, i need min. version 7.2. But the video is still shown in the songlist of iTunes, but when i want to start (and view) it, nothings happen. Have i somthing forgotten to config? i compiled my svn-1519 (for the art_filename-feature) only with –enable-sqlite3 and that was it. Have i to install more to get this work?

my mt-daapd.conf is the following:

[general]

web_root = /usr/local/share/mt-daapd/admin-root

port = 3689

admin_pw = mypassword

db_type = sqlite3

db_parms = /usr/local/var/cache/mt-daapd

mp3_dir = /SAN/MP3

servername = Server (%v)

runas = mt-daapd

playlist = /usr/local/etc/mt-daapd.playlist

#password = mp3

extensions = .mp3,.m4a,.m4p,.mp4

ssc_codectypes = ogg,flac,alac

ssc_prog = /usr/local/bin/mt-daapd-ssc.sh

logfile = /var/log/mt-daapd.log

rescan_interval = 0

# always_scan = 0

# process_m3u = 0

scan_type = 2

#compress = 0

art_filename = _folderOpenImage.jpg



[plugins]

plugin_dir = /usr/local/share/mt-daapd/plugins

my testvideo is called “Zeitung.mp4”, stored in /SAN/MP3/Video and has the same access-rights in the filesystem like the other (working) MP3-Files. After a manual started scan mt-daapd recognize the file, the logfile-entry says

2007-06-30 11:49:39 (bc9c1b6b): Scanned 95 songs (was 94) in 1 seconds

I also tried

ssc_codectypes = ogg,flac,alac,mp4a

Is there something wrong … or am i only to stupid to unterstand what to do?

Thank you very much …

Bye
Alhifi

[Anonymous]

No one any ideas?

Bye
Alhifi

[rpedde]

@Alhifi wrote:

No one any ideas?

Bye
Alhifi

Sorry, was out of town.

Try adding .mp4 to the extensions. Also, turn on your logfile in the web admin, and turn the debuglevel up to 9 and try to play it and see what errors the log file generates.

What size is the file? Is it over 2G?

[Anonymous]

Hi Ron,

look above, i’ve already add .mp4 to the extensions, didn’t work.

The file-size is 5 MB.

With these settings above i have no entry in the logfile, i will try to set the debug level higher, but how?

mt-daapd.conf:

debuglevel = 9

?

Bye
Alhifi

[rpedde]

@Alhifi wrote:

Hi Ron,

look above, i’ve already add .mp4 to the extensions, didn’t work.

The file-size is 5 MB.

With these settings above i have no entry in the logfile, i will try to set the debug level higher, but how?

mt-daapd.conf:

debuglevel = 9

?

Bye
Alhifi

You also need “logfile” to set your logfile. If you aren’t getting a logfile with those set, then you either aren’t reading that configuration (but a different one), or you aren’t running the version you think you are (like maybe an older version is in a different path).

What does your web admin page say the version is? And what does the config page say your config file is?

[Anonymous]

Hi Ron,

here are the results:

server:/var/log # ps -ef | grep daapd
mt-daapd 9161 1 0 00:20 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/local/sbin/mt-daapd -c /etc/mt-daapd.conf -d 1
mt-daapd 9162 1 0 00:20 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/local/sbin/mt-daapd -c /etc/mt-daapd.conf -d 1

After the test i switched back to Loglevel 0 which is shown above … the configuration-file is correct and the content posted above in an erlier reply of mine.

Logfile:

2007-07-04 00:00:17 (0f68c66f): Session 0: Streaming file ‘Zeitung.mp4’ to 192.168.0.2 (offset 0)
2007-07-04 00:00:17 (0f68c66f): Write error: Connection reset by peer
2007-07-04 00:00:17 (0f68c66f): Finished streaming file to remote: 20480 bytes

Version shown in the administration-web-interface is “svn-1519” and also correct.

The complete logfile until my test to view file “Zeitung.mp4” is about 160 kB and to big to post here, if you want, i can mail it to you.

Bye
Alhifi

[rpedde]

@Alhifi wrote:

Hi Ron,

here are the results:

server:/var/log # ps -ef | grep daapd
mt-daapd 9161 1 0 00:20 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/local/sbin/mt-daapd -c /etc/mt-daapd.conf -d 1
mt-daapd 9162 1 0 00:20 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/local/sbin/mt-daapd -c /etc/mt-daapd.conf -d 1

After the test i switched back to Loglevel 0 which is shown above … the configuration-file is correct and the content posted above in an erlier reply of mine.

Logfile:

2007-07-04 00:00:17 (0f68c66f): Session 0: Streaming file ‘Zeitung.mp4’ to 192.168.0.2 (offset 0)
2007-07-04 00:00:17 (0f68c66f): Write error: Connection reset by peer
2007-07-04 00:00:17 (0f68c66f): Finished streaming file to remote: 20480 bytes

Version shown in the administration-web-interface is “svn-1519” and also correct.

The complete logfile until my test to view file “Zeitung.mp4” is about 160 kB and to big to post here, if you want, i can mail it to you.

Bye
Alhifi

You can mail it to me at [email protected]

[Anonymous]

I know I’m resurrecting an old thread, but I’ve got the same question now.

I added .mp4 to the extensions list, and I see the .mp4 files in my iTunes, and I can even play them. But there’s no video, they just play as audio. Get info in iTunes shows them as .mp4, but there’s no video when I play, no matter what I try. It’s very odd, any ideas?

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