mediautils

mediaserv

mediaserv is an on-demand transcoding server for videos, targetting the Nokia Internet Tablets.

What's that mean? Well, you don't have to worry about transcoding your video collection in advance: you can just select the video from a web page and get it streamed to your 770, N800 or N810. It's a bit like Orb, apparently, but doesn't require you to sign-up to a third-party website and works on non-Windows platforms.

Here's a demo of an N800 playing back a DVD rip in 720x576 1000kbps video, 192kbps audio DivX off a 1GHz Via C3 processor box transcoding to tablet-encode's "average" preset:

Even better, it provides RSS feeds which can be used by Nokia's beta Video Center allowing you easy access to files as they are added to your server.

Features

On-demand transcoding of videos.
Easy-to-use web UI, and integration with Video Center.
Playback in standard Media Player or mplayer, depending on the configuration of your Web Browser and/or Video Center.
Automatic thumbnail generation.
Meta-data from MythTV and Freevo for subtitles and descriptions.
Tested on Linux, Mac OS X and other Unix-like OSes.

Screenshots

In addition to the demo above, here are some screenshots:

Download

Download mediaserv file releases from garage.maemo.org. The tarball is about 30KB.