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Introducing BubbleUPNPServer with mp3-ffmpeg (Transcoding) on QNAP NAS

Hi all,

at first: sorry for my untechnical (and sometimes maybe bad) English :(

Also I had to modify the links a little bit, because below 10 posts I am not allowed to post links at XDA. I thought they were nevertheless helpful for understanding.

The use of BubbleUPNPServer in combination with my QNAP TS-870Pro, an Android running BubbleUPNP and a Cromecast 2 sounds great. It's a pity - but whatever I did until here, I didn't get even the server running yet.

At first I started with the installation tutorial on bubblesoftapps.com. The problems even start when Optware is mentioned. It seems like QNAP has stopped supporting Optware. It isn't available anymore in the QPKG-Module-GUI (called App-Center). I was also not able to find a package to install Optware manually.

Instead I should use entware-ng. Having installed this, I now don't know how to proceed, because the bubbleupnp-package doesn't seem to be available for entware-ng (h t t p : / / pkg . entware . net/binaries/x86-32/).

Because of my very (!) small linux knowledge I am not sure, whether I can use the optware-package (.ipk from here: h t t p : / / ipkg . nslu2-linux . org/optware-ng/buildroot-i686/Packages.html) in the entware-ng handler. Even if this were possible, I had no idea how to do this :(

So I tried to install BubbleUPNPServer via QPKG (the QNAP build-in manual package installer via GUI). There I installed entware-ng, JRE 8 and the BubbleUPNPServer_0.9.qpkg from the bubblesoft-Website successfully. The problem is now, that the QNAP-preinstalled (I suppose) ffmpeg-package does not make BubbleUPNPServer able to transcode Video ("ffmpeg has no mp3 encoding support") and Audio ("ffmpeg has no libmp3lame support").

What I tried yet:

* Installing the ffmpeg-package via entware-ng (putty says: ffmpeg version 2.8 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers) and restarting did not changed anything.

* I downloaded the ffmpeg-binaries from the bubblesoft-website (h t t p : / / www . bubblesoftapps . com/bubbleupnpserver/core/ffmpeg_linux.zip) but I don't know what to do with them now. Just replacing it in the root directory of the NAS? But where?

* I surfed the web trying to find a qnap-ffmpeg-package with that support - but wasn't successful.

* I also tried to get the ffmpeg-binaries from h t t p s : / / www . ffmpeg . org/download.html#releases running, but I wasn't successful installing it in the QNAP system (via QPKG). I have also no idea how to do this via shell.

* Searching Google for installing tar-archives to a QNAP-system didn't helped me.

* I found an older advice concerning manipulating the ffmpeg on my own (h t t p s : / / forum . qnap . com/viewtopic.php?t=52358), but it doesn't work for me (probably also because of the lack of optware).

Compiling the ffmpeg package seems to be interesting (h t t p s : / / trac . ffmpeg . org/wiki/How%20to%20quickly%20compile%20FFmpeg%20with%20mp3,%20aac%2B%20and%20x264), but for that it seems I lack too much linux-knowledge.

It would be great, if somebody could give me some hints. I would really love this feature finally running!

Best regards,

Nagus