Firefly on WHS

[Anonymous]

I am on the 1696 version which should allow me to transcode flac however when i try to play one in my client browser I get a popup window that says “Unsupported file type! This is not an .mp3 file. Flash can only play external audio in .mp3 format.”

I was unde the impression the ffmpeg transcoder plugin would transcode a .flac file and stream to a client browser. When I click on ‘about’ for my Firefly Media Server it does show the ffmpeg plugin.

I have about 10,000 songs I need to stream. They are .mp3’s .wav and .flac.

Here is my conf file:

# This is the Firefly Media Server config file.



#



# Note that any changes made to this file will require the server to be



# shut down and restarted



#



#







[general]

#



# web_root (required)



#



# Location of the admin web pages.



#



# If you installed from .RPM, .deb, or tarball with --prefix=/usr, then



# this is correct.



#



# If you installed from tarball without --prefix=/usr, then the correct



# path is probably /usr/local/share/mt-daapd/admin-root.



#



admin_pw = changed for debug purposes

web_root = C:Program FilesFirefly Media Serveradmin-root



#



# port (required)



#



# What port to listen on.  It is possible to use a different



# port, but this is the default iTunes port



#





port =9999



#



# admin_pw (optional)



#



# This is the password to the administrative pages



#



# If it is blank, then no password is required from localhost,



# but nobody can connect from an outside machine (for admin



# pages).



#



# If it is set, then passwords are required for admin pages



# from both localhost and external hosts



#





# admin_pw =







#



# db_type (required)



#



# This is what kind of backend database to store the song



# info in.  Valid choices are "sqlite" and "sqlite3".



#



# sqlite seems to be more stable.





db_type = sqlite3



#



# db_parms



#



# This is any extra information the db needs to connect.



# in the case of sqlite and sqlite3, this is the name



# of the directory to store the database in



#



# If you installed from RPM or .deb, this path likely already



# exists.  If not, then you must create it.  The directory itself



# must be writable by the "runas" user.



#





db_parms = C:Program FilesFirefly Media Server



#



# mp3_dir (required)



#



# Location of the mp3 files to share.  Note that because the



# files are stored in the database by inode, these must be



# in the same physical filesystem.



#





mp3_dir =D:sharesMusic



#



# servername (required)



#



# This is both the name of the server as advertised



# via rendezvous, and the name of the database



# exported via DAAP.  Also know as "What shows up in iTunes".



#





servername =Firefly Media Server



#



# runas (required)



#



# This is the user to drop privs to if running as



# root.  If mt-daapd is not started as root, this



# configuration option is ignored.  Notice that this



# must be specified whether the server is running



# as root or not.



#



# This is a leftover from the port from unix -- it's



# not used on windows, but still hanging around, like



# an appendix.



#





runas = nobody



#



# password (optional)



#



# This is the password required to listen to MP3 files



# i.e. the password that iTunes prompts for



#





#password=mp3





#



# extensions (optional)



#



# These are the file extensions that the daap server will



# try to index and serve.  By default, it only indexes and



# serves .mp3 files.  It can also server .m4a and .m4p files,



# and just about any other files, really.  Unfortunately, while



# it can *attempt* to serve other files (.ogg?), iTunes won't



# play them.  Perhaps this would be useful on Linux with



# Rhythmbox, once it understands daap.  (hurry up!)



#



# Failing that, one can use server-side conversion to transcode



# non-standard (.ogg, .flac) music to wav on the server side.



# See the ssc_* options below.



#





extensions = .wav,.mp3,.m4a,.m4p,.wma,.flac,.ogg



#



# ssc_codectypes (optional)



#



# List of codectypes for files that the daap server should



# perform internal format conversion and present to clients



# as WAV files.  The file extensions that these codectypes correspond



# to must also be present in 'extensions'



# configuration value, or files are not probed in the first



# place.



#



# Valid codectypes:



#



# mp4a - for AAC (.aac, .mp4, .m4a, .m4p)



# mpeg - for mp3



# wav - for wav



# wma - for wma



# ogg - for ogg



# flac - for flac (.flac, .fla)



# mpc for musepack (.mpc, .mpp, .mp+)



# alac for alac (.m4a)



#



ssc_codectypes = flac





#



# ssc_prog (optional)



#



# Program that is used in server side format conversion.



# Program must accept following command line syntax:



#     ssc_prog filename offset length ...



# Parameter filename is the real name of the file that is



# to be converted and streamed, offset is number of bytes



# that are skipped from the beginning of the _output_ file



# before streaming is started, length is length of the song



# in seconds (or zero).  All other possible arguments must



# be ignored.  The resulting wav file (or the rest of



# the file after initial seek) is written to the standard



# output by the ssc_prog program.  This is typically



# a script that is a front end for different conversion tools



# handling different formats.



#







# ssc_prog /etc/mt-daapd-ssc-script





#



# logfile (optional)



#



# This is the file to log to.  If this is not configured,



# then it will log to the syslog.



#



# Not that the -d  switch will control the log verbosity.



# By default, it runs at log level 1.  Log level 9 will churn



# out scads of useless debugging information.  Values in between



# will vary the amount of logging you get.



#





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





#



# art_filename (optional)



#



# There is experimental support thanks to Hiren Joshi



# ([email protected]) for dynamically adding art to the id3v2



# header as it is streamed (!!).  If you were using a music system



# like zina or andromeda, for example, with cover art called



# "_folderOpenImage.jpg", you could use the parameter



# art_file _folderOpenImage.jpg and if the file _folderOpenImage.jpg



# was located in the same folder as the .mp3 file, it would appear



# in iTunes.  Cool, eh?



#





#art_filename _folderOpenImage.jpg





#



# rescan_interval



#



# How often to check the file system (in sec) to see if any mp3 files



# have been added or removed.



#



# if not specified, the default is 0, which disables background scanning.



#



# If background rescanning is disabled, a scan can still be forced from the



# "status" page of the administrative web interface



#



# Setting a rescan_interval lower than the time it takes to rescan



# won't hurt anything, it will just waste CPU, and make connect times



# to the daap server longer.



#



#





rescan_interval = 600



# always_scan



#



# The default behavior is not not do background rescans of the



# filesystem unless there are clients connected.  The thought is to



# allow the drives to spin down unless they are in use.  This might be



# of more importance in IDE drives that aren't designed to be run



# 24x7.  Forcing a scan through the web interface will always work



# though, even if no users are connected.





always_scan = 1



#



# scan_type



#



#



# This sets how aggressively mp3 files should be scanned to determine



# file length.  There are three values:



#



# 0 (Normal)



#   Just scan the first mp3 frame to try and calculate size.  This will



#   be accurate for most files, but VBR files without an Xing tag will



#   probably have wildly inaccurate file times.  This is the default.



#



# 1 (Aggressive)



#   This checks the bitrates of 10 frames in the middle of the song.



#   This will still be inaccurate for VBR files without an Xing tag,



#   but they probably won't be quite as inaccurate as 0.  This takes



#   more time, obviously, although the time hit will only happen the



#   first time you scan a particular file.



#



# 2 (Painfully aggressive)



#   This walks through the entire song, counting the number of frames.



#   This should result in accurate song times, but will take the most



#   time.  Again, this will only have to be incurred the first time



#   the file is indexed.



#





scan_type = 2





# compress 0





#



# Truncate



#



# should the server truncate the log files on startup.



# Defaults to zero



truncate = 1

logfile = firefly.log

password =

[scanning]



#



# process_m3u



#



# By default m3u processing is turned off, since most m3u files



# sitting around in peoples mp3 directories have bad paths, and



# I hear about it.  :)



#



# If you are sure your m3u files have good paths (i.e. unixly pathed,



# with relative paths relative to the directory the m3u is in), then



# you can turn on m3u processing by setting this directive to 1.



#



# I'm not sure "unixly" is a word, but you get the idea.



#





process_playlists = 1



[plugins]

plugin_dir = C:Program FilesFirefly Media Serverplugins

plugins =

[Anonymous]

I have a similar issue. Have you resolved it?

Two comments about your conf file…..

I think you need to specify the program to use for server side conversion. I believe this may be the line which is commented out in your file.

# ssc_prog /etc/mt-daapd-ssc-script

Also, I think you need tospecify the actual plugin names in the plugin directory………

plugins = rsp.dll,w32-event.dll,ssc-ffmpeg.dll,ssc-wma.dll

But even with doing that I cannot get FS to convert Flac for streaming over a browser.

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