Transcoding for unsupported video formats

[fupdec]

[mf35]

Hello.
Do you have a lead for HEVC support, now that you got back to HTML5 video player ?

[fupdec]

Not. In theory, when I figure out how to efficiently convert one format to another, I will get support for all formats.

[mf35]

You meant "transcode" not "convert" right ?

[fupdec]

I am not good at terminology. But I think it includes a conversion phase.

[mf35]

But are you talking about an external tool to convert video files to other video files ?
Or do you mean a way to directly play HEVC videos in the player ?

[fupdec]

Oh no. Of course this will happen inside the application and on the fly. This should be done so that users do not even realize that their files are being converted during playback. I haven’t gone into the technical part yet, but I suppose that I will need to take a piece of video, convert it and save it in memory. And it will be like streaming a file from memory.

[mf35]

Ok, it looks like a real challenge :)

Handbrake on my well specced laptop is still a lengthy, CPU intensive, process that would limit the chance that this could work "on-the-fly". Maybe a better option would be to have a "convert" tab. In this tab is a list of all videos with a non-native format (wmv, avi, etc). In that is the option to batch convert (with a time estimate) with further options to delete the original and reassign the database entry to the new file.

This would be a MASSIVE value add whilst not generating disappointment in your user base.

I know that Handbrake is freeware, never looked to see if it is open source.

...and it is :)

https://handbrake.fr/

https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake