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Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

I'm pleased to announce that new Air Video Server beta version is available.

You can download it for [b][URL=http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/download/Air%20Video%20Server%202.1.8-beta8.dmg]Mac OS X Leopard[/url][/b] and [b][URL=http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/download/Setup218beta8.exe]Microsoft Windows[/url][/b].

[b]Improvements in this release:[/b]
* Subtitle Support! SRT, SSA, SUB (MicroDVD), SMI (Experimental) formats are supported. Text subtitle track in MKV files are also supported.
* 64bit transcoding on 64bit Macs
* Windows Installer should configure proper rules for all firewall profiles
* More UPnP workarounds for broken routers
* Greatly improved unicode support on Windows

[b]Changes since beta 7:[/b]
* Fixed FFMpeg problems on OS X 10.5 Leopard
* Fixed problems with Windows thumbnail generation (caused by missing msvcr90.dll)
* Subtitle size change on Windows shouldn't require server restart

[b]Changes since beta 6:[/b]
* A/V sync fixes
* Experimental support for SMI subtitles
* Added option to adjust subtitle font size
* Stability improvements

[b]Changes since beta 5:[/b]
* Option to disable embedded subtitles
* Compatibility with OS X 10.5 Leopard
* Fixed startup problems on OS X
* Important unicode fixes on Windows - Air Video can now be installed in folder that contains unicode characters, also conversion should work in unicode folders

[b]Changes since beta 4:[/b]
* Overlapped subtitles should be supported properly.

[b]Changes since beta 3:[/b]
* Fixed problem when Air Video Server froze on startup / shutdown.

[b]Changes since beta 2:[/b]
* Fixed version number in Windows installer
* Fixed subtitle loading bugs
* Stability improvements

Please keep in mind that subtitle support is new. Feedback is very welcome. Also this build DOES NOT SUPPORT PowerPC Macs.
This is a beta version so treat it as such. Things might not work quite as expected

[B]Update: If the accented characters don't show right you need to adjust subtitle encoding in Air Video Server properties.[/B]

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

dadavo — GMT

Is this release optimized for multi-core CPUs?

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

It contains regular FFMpeg build. It can still take advantage of multi-core CPUs, but it might not be able to load all CPU cores 100% for certain videos. Unfortunately the multi thread version of FFMpeg did cause serious AV sync issues as well as problem with seeking in TS files (which you have reported).

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

dadavo — GMT

Yes I noticed the seeking was working. Too bad, while this does fix my seeking issue my original problem of buffering every minute or so reappears. Oh well.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

Does the rebuferring happen on local network or over 3g?

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

dadavo — GMT

[quote=Admin]Does the rebuferring happen on local network or over 3g?[/quote]

Both. I monitor the CPU usage and it never exceeds 70% with this version of FFMpeg. The multi-threaded versions always registered 100% usage but streamed smoothly. Though it didn't seem like 100% was being used as running other background programs ran without stuttering.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

Even if the process says it uses 100% of CPU the operating system scheduler will give CPU time to other processes as well. What is your computer configuration and is the format and resolution of input videos? Btw, if you increase ffmpeg.exe process priority during playback (in task manager), does it get any better?

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

insanary — GMT

thanx about your quick response..
but, there are little bit problem of my macmini with leopard..
i don't see any subtitle...... sub, smi every subtitle..
so i check olderversions of this server application for mac..
but also no...

i check that subtitle section in properties..
and than check logs section..

subtitles log are nothing.
Mmm.. what's problem to me..

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

Does your subtitle have the exact same name as the video file? (except for the extension of course).

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

dadavo — GMT

[quote=Admin]Even if the process says it uses 100% of CPU the operating system scheduler will give CPU time to other processes as well. What is your computer configuration and is the format and resolution of input videos? Btw, if you increase ffmpeg.exe process priority during playback (in task manager), does it get any better?[/quote]

I changed both FFMpeg and AirVideo processes to Realtime Priority with no other applications running in the background. It made little diffrence. I have my settings for AirVideo on my iPhone to stream at about 25% - 40% quality. The videos are the same as I uploaded before. 12.5 MB/s H.264 ts files. The multi-theaded FFMpeg did a very good job of giving me smooth streaming. Thanks for any help or advice you can give me.

Intel T2600 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo
3GB RAM
Windows XP Service Pack 3
500GB x2 in Raid 0

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

mudden — GMT

Hi!

Thank's for an excellent software!

Unfortunately the server stopped working.
Running Beta8 the service loads but does work.
The console does not load.

Running w2k8r2

Tried uninstall/reinstall/reboot. Versions 217, 217b7 and beta 8.

Regards,

Jocke

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

Hi,

I'm really not sure what exactly doesn't work. Does the application start? Can you see the icon in menubar? Is the AirVideoServer.exe process running?

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

mudden — GMT

[quote=Admin]Hi,

I'm really not sure what exactly doesn't work. Does the application start? Can you see the icon in menubar? Is the AirVideoServer.exe process running? [/quote]

Hi!

Yes the process runs
No the Console (Icon) doesn't

Regs,

Jocke

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

mudden — GMT

[quote=mudden][quote=Admin]Hi,

I'm really not sure what exactly doesn't work. Does the application start? Can you see the icon in menubar? Is the AirVideoServer.exe process running? [/quote]

Hi!

Yes the process runs
No the Console (Icon) doesn't

Regs,

Jocke[/quote]

Btw,

Every time I try to start the server it loads another AirVideoServer.exe process
Looked in the event viewer but haven't found anything related. That could be more my lacking knowledge of using event viewer thou...

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

Okay,

try the following:
Open Task manager
kill [b]all[/b] AirVideoServer.exe processes
Go to \Local Settings\Application Data\AirVideoServer

delete the conversionStatus2 file.

is usually in C:\Documents And Settings

Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

mudden — GMT

Great!

That was the trick!

Thank you for your quick support

Regards,

Jocke

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

djhan — GMT

Finally, air video support SMI subtitle..... It's great!
Thanks for your support.

But I can't select font type(bold / italic / etc) in MacOS version.
Please fix this limits. Then Air video will be near perfect software.

Thanks, good luck!

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

npitt — GMT

sorry ,
I have some trouble
i use win 7 OS
before i install bata8, all thing is ok,
when i install tata8, i lost Air Video Server icon,
but i can see it that running in windows background process.
that i can't remote from my iPhone.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

Hi,

did you try to kill the AirVideoServer.exe process and reinstall beta8 afterwards?

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

npitt — GMT

yes, i tried.
but still the same.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

Okay, you can try the following:

Open Task manager
kill all AirVideoServer.exe processes
Go to \Local Settings\Application Data\AirVideoServer

delete the conversionStatus2 file.

is usually in C:\Documents And Settings

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

npitt — GMT

and i tried reinstall bata6 that still the same result.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

npitt — GMT

thx, i tried it.
finally, it work.
Thanks a lot.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

insanary — GMT

[quote=Admin]Does your subtitle have the exact same name as the video file? (except for the extension of course).[/quote]

sure, subtitle's name is exactly same as the video files with same folder.
but, it doesn't work.. subtitle log file is empty.. that is weird...

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

Can you attach the subtitle file here?

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

AgatonSax — GMT

Thanks for an awesome product!

For some reason, offline conversion stopped working in Beta 8 for me. (Moved directly from beta 5 when upgrading, but I have tried beta 6 and 7 with the same result afterwards.) What happens is;

The conversion starts and the CPU usage goes up to almost 100%, then after a minute or so it drops back down to 0% and the conversion is halted (estimated time remaining remains the same). It is not possible to click "stop conversion and clear que" at this point, nothing will happen. Only way to get the file out of the conversion que is to re-start the server and remove the file during the initial working minute or so. It does not seem to matter if the file has subtitles or not (tried several different video files/types). From the offline conversion log;

Conversion: Begin Video Conversion
Conversion: >>
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Conversion: >>
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<<

Conversion: FFmpeg version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
Conversion: built on Dec 15 2009 22:40:09 with gcc 4.4.0
Conversion: configuration: --enable-memalign-hack --prefix=/mingw --target-os=mingw32 --arch=i686 --cpu=i686 --enable-gpl --enable-libx264 --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-libmp3lame
Conversion: libavutil 50. 7. 0 / 50. 7. 0
Conversion: libavcodec 52.43. 0 / 52.43. 0
Conversion: libavformat 52.43. 0 / 52.43. 0
Conversion: libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
Conversion: libswscale 0. 7. 2 / 0. 7. 2
Conversion: [matroska @ 0x3ee820]Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Conversion:
Conversion: Seems stream 1 codec frame rate differs from container frame rate: 47.95 (48000/1001) -> 23.98 (24000/1001)
Conversion: Input #0, matroska, from 'X:\\series, other\\TheOffice\\S06\\The.Office.S06E01.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU\\the.office.s06e01.720p.hdtv.x264-ctu.mkv':
Conversion: Duration: 00:21:24.92, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Conversion: Stream #0.0: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5 channels, s16
Conversion: Stream #0.1(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9, 24.39 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc
Conversion: [libx264 @ 0x16fe9f0]using SAR=71/72
Conversion: [libx264 @ 0x16fe9f0]using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 Cache64
Conversion: [libx264 @ 0x16fe9f0]profile Baseline, level 2.1
Conversion: Output #0, h264, to 'X:\\series, other\\TheOffice\\S06\\The.Office.S06E01.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU\\1dcb531d-0416-4e72-8f69-20114fc1afd5.h264':
Conversion: Stream #0.0(eng): Video: libx264, yuv420p, 576x320 [PAR 71:72 DAR 71:40], q=2-28, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn, 24 tbc
Conversion: Output #1, wav, to 'pipe:':
Conversion: Stream #1.0: Audio: pcm_s16le, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1536 kb/s
Conversion: Stream mapping:
Conversion: Stream #0.1 -> #0.0
Conversion: Stream #0.0 -> #1.0
Conversion: Press [q] to stop encoding

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

tayruh — GMT

Hi. I just wanted to start by saying that Air Video is by far my favorite app on the iPhone. It's totally amazing and I love it.

Now then.. the only problem I have with it (and unfortunately it's a big one) is that the 2.1.8 beta 8 encoder keeps crapping out on me. And by that, I mean it crashes about every 15 minutes or more of video play. The stable release of 2.1.7 doesn't do this at all. If there were some sort of log file I could check, I'd give you more info.. but unfortunately it appears as long it just decides to stop encoding without an error.

Hopefully you can help, or I can help you, find a solution to this. I would *love* be able to use this app with subs since I'm a bit of an anime fan and they tend to come in .mkv format with embedded subs rather than hardcoded these days.

Thanks for your time!

Edit: Sorry, I forgot to add some information. I don't have 3G where I live (*sniff*), so I can only use Air Video over my wireless connection. The crashing happens both with Live Conversion and Convert settings. It also happens whether the video has subs or not. I've tried it with a ton of my files and the result is always the same, so I know it's not just because of a badly encoded file.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

MrPacMan36 — GMT

In the next update, I think you should disable the ability to open more than one Air Video process at once. Because sometimes on my desktop, I'll accidentally click it (I'm not sure how, but I do... xD) and it opens up a second Air Video, which then I have to kill. Maybe make it give an error message saying "you already have the airvideo.exe process running (or w/e the process is called), you may not run another" or something along those lines.

Thanks for this sick app, my friend all the way across the world can now watch my videos from my desktop, thanks to this AMAZING app

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

[quote=tayruh]Hi. I just wanted to start by saying that Air Video is by far my favorite app on the iPhone. It's totally amazing and I love it.

Now then.. the only problem I have with it (and unfortunately it's a big one) is that the 2.1.8 beta 8 encoder keeps crapping out on me. And by that, I mean it crashes about every 15 minutes or more of video play. The stable release of 2.1.7 doesn't do this at all. If there were some sort of log file I could check, I'd give you more info.. but unfortunately it appears as long it just decides to stop encoding without an error.

Hopefully you can help, or I can help you, find a solution to this. I would *love* be able to use this app with subs since I'm a bit of an anime fan and they tend to come in .mkv format with embedded subs rather than hardcoded these days.

Thanks for your time!

Edit: Sorry, I forgot to add some information. I don't have 3G where I live (*sniff*), so I can only use Air Video over my wireless connection. The crashing happens both with Live Conversion and Convert settings. It also happens whether the video has subs or not. I've tried it with a ton of my files and the result is always the same, so I know it's not just because of a badly encoded file.[/quote]
There is Live Conversion log in Air Video Server properties. You can clear the log, start playing the file and after the encoder crashes post the log here. Btw., what kind of crash it is? Do you get a message box that says ffmpeg.exe process has terminated unexpectedly? (in case you're using Windows)? Or does the encoding just stop?

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

tayruh — GMT

[quote=Admin]There is Live Conversion log in Air Video Server properties. You can clear the log, start playing the file and after the encoder crashes post the log here. Btw., what kind of crash it is? Do you get a message box that says ffmpeg.exe process has terminated unexpectedly? (in case you're using Windows)? Or does the encoding just stop? [/quote]

I'm doing the live conversion of the same video I used for the attached long right now. I'll post with that one once it's hit the error. The offline conversion happens really quickly (probably because it's encodes so fast), so I did that one first even though you didn't request it.

I should also point out that when the offline conversion crashes, it doesn't really "crash" per say. There's no error balloon or blue screen or anything like that. The program just stops encoding. In fact, it doesn't even look like it's finished. It never says it's complete or anything like that. I can just hear my system wind down and the air video program on the PC becomes a bit unresponsive. For instance, I can't click the "stop encoding and remove from list" button (or whatever the button says). I actually have to quit the program (which doesn't require quitting through the task manager, thankfully) and restart it, and *then* I can remove the file from the conversion list.

Thanks for being so quick to respond, and I hope this helps. I'll submit the live conversion log once I can.

Edit: Oh yeah. I forgot to mention I'm using Windows XP 32-bit Media Center Edition SP3. That was a bit silly of me.. I also have an iPhone 3G, but I don't think that really matters in this case.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

Thanks for the description. I am able to reproduce the problem.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

Offline conversion will be fixed in next beta. However I'm not able to reproduce the problem with live conversion yet.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

tayruh — GMT

Well, shoot. The video played all the way through with Live Conversion. It sometimes does that. It doesn't error as reliably as it does with Offline Conversion. Although, it did have this error at the very, very end:

LiveConversion: [libmp3lame @ 0x165b660]lame: output buffer too small (buffer index: 9216, free bytes: 576)
LiveConversion: Audio encoding failed

I was actually talking with my roommate, and there's a possibility that the erroring of Live Conversion might be more with my wifi dropping and not an error on Air Video's part. We think there might be someone microwaving their dinner around the same time at night, which is also around the same time at night that we like to watch movies together (I hitch the iPhone up to my TV). The reason I think this may be the case is because, unlike how the Offline Conversion errors, with Live Conversion I never have to quit out of the program in order to make the video start encoding again. Instead, it just magically starts buffering again after 30 seconds or so. If I get the error again, I'll definitely copy down the log and post it in here.

I'm sure you probably have everything under control, but I'm wondering if maybe the fact that Offline Conversion errors while the Live Conversion doesn't seem to may have something to with writing to the disk? *shrug*

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

The libmp3lame error should be pretty harmless. The buffering problem might be related to lack of bandwidth.

The problem with offline conversion wasn't really related to writing to disk. It was related to an inter process buffer not being flushed properly.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

tayruh — GMT

[quote=Admin]The libmp3lame error should be pretty harmless. The buffering problem might be related to lack of bandwidth.

The problem with offline conversion wasn't really related to writing to disk. It was related to an inter process buffer not being flushed properly. [/quote]

Yeah, I feel silly but the Live Conversion is probably my own issue. Sorry about that.

Anyway, thanks for this program. I'm really looking forward to the next beta where this is fixed.

Also, I see that you said in the features for beta 8 that MicroDVD subs should work. That's .sub/.idx, right? I can't seem to get them to work for some reason. It doesn't seem to matter whether they're external or put into a .mkv container. Am I overlooking something?

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

Actually, MicroDVD subtitles do have .sub extension, but are simple textual files. The .sub/.idx combo are usually subtitles ripped from DVDs that hasn't been converted to text yet (subtitle images). Air Video doesn't support those.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

tayruh — GMT

Aw darn. I guess I'll just have to stick with my method of using mencoder to hardsub them before tossing them to Air Video. Oh well. They're pretty rare anyway.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

I think that should be tool that can transform .sub/.idx subtitles to text using OCR (although it usually does require some additional corrections).

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

tayruh — GMT

Yeah, there is. I use one called SubResync (part of VobSub) to do it. However, occasionally you get these really annoying subs--like the one on this Evangelion movie that I want to watch--and the letters blend together and really confuse the OCR. The end result is that you either get subs with spaces in the middle of words, or no spaces at all. So what I do in that case, since mplayer/mencoder can play file with .sub/.idx subtitles, is re-encode the movie with the subtitles hardcoded onto the video. Then I use Air Video to either stream it or encode.

By the way, I should also mention that I love the fact that Air Video offline encodes videos. The quality is really amazing and I like just putting the .m4v files right onto my phone so I can watch the videos at work. I love it. I have successfully been able to do the same with mencoder, but the video quality isn't as great as what Air Video produces.

Edit: BTW, while I'm on the topic, do you think you'd be able to make a version of the iPhone/iTouch app that would let you select subs for a video rather than just having it select, I dunno, the first one? (I'm not really sure how you have it work.) For instance, I have a .mkv anime episode which has both .srt and .ssa subs embedded in it. The .ssa subs are *really* nice looking, but the .srt subs are really plain (like usual, since they aren't stylized). Anyway, the Air Video app chooses the .srt subs by default and doesn't give me any way that I see to choose the other ones, which I'd prefer. I mean, subs are subs, so I really shouldn't complain, but I'd much rather use the pretty ones if I had the choice.

Re:Air Video Server 2.1.8-beta8 released

Admin — GMT

[URL=http://www.inmethod.com/forum/posts/list/454.page]Beta 9[/URL] was released. Locking topic.