VLC on mobile unseekable stream
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2020 12:31 pm
Hello all,
I am new to the world of UMS. I am looking to build a server for my dad and archive his giant movie collection on it so he has an easier way to access his physical media. I have the server running on defaults and it streams great, even to multiple devices from a weak laptop while also playing on said laptop. However, I have a dilemma.
VLC on mobile keeps giving me a message that the content is unseekable. It looks like the content is being transcoded in the background. I am playing a .MP4 file. Subtitles seem to be enabled by default since the file happens to be in the folder. If I play it on an Xbox One with VLC, it seeks but has a bunch of video glitches and green screens until it clears up. What setting do I need to change to be able to have the media seekable without resorting to the jump to feature?
Playback devices will be iPhones, Androids, and Roku machines for now. Both iPhone and Android have a native VLC app.
Please let me know if you need any more information. Should I be using a different file format? I will be ripping his DVDs to the machine, so I can put them in as any file available if something is a better option. My test file just happens to be an .MP4.
I am new to the world of UMS. I am looking to build a server for my dad and archive his giant movie collection on it so he has an easier way to access his physical media. I have the server running on defaults and it streams great, even to multiple devices from a weak laptop while also playing on said laptop. However, I have a dilemma.
VLC on mobile keeps giving me a message that the content is unseekable. It looks like the content is being transcoded in the background. I am playing a .MP4 file. Subtitles seem to be enabled by default since the file happens to be in the folder. If I play it on an Xbox One with VLC, it seeks but has a bunch of video glitches and green screens until it clears up. What setting do I need to change to be able to have the media seekable without resorting to the jump to feature?
Playback devices will be iPhones, Androids, and Roku machines for now. Both iPhone and Android have a native VLC app.
Please let me know if you need any more information. Should I be using a different file format? I will be ripping his DVDs to the machine, so I can put them in as any file available if something is a better option. My test file just happens to be an .MP4.