[Synology] Read media characteristics via libmediainfo instead of ffprobe
Posted: 09 Oct 2022, 06:26
The ffprobe binary shipped with the Media Server package does not work for some users on some Synology DSM devices:
Configure filebot to use the libmediainfo library instead of the ffprobe executable when reading media characteristics such as video duration and audio language:
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[/var/packages/MediaServer/target/bin/ffprobe, -show_streams, -show_format, -print_format, json, -v, error, ...] failed (1)
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$ /var/packages/MediaServer/target/bin/ffprobe -show_streams -show_format -print_format json ...
...
Could not open codec for input stream 0
Configure filebot to use the libmediainfo library instead of the ffprobe executable when reading media characteristics such as video duration and audio language:
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filebot -script fn:properties --def net.filebot.media.parser=libmediainfo