This patcher is designed to continue the work of Benjamin Poncet, to enable DTS, EAC3 and TrueHD support to Synology VideoStation, by replacing the original ffmpeg and gstreamer files by a wrapper using SynoCommunity packages.
Huge thanks to Benjamin Poncet, Vincent Fortier, SynoCommunity and all contributors.
Also want to patch MediaServer ? there you go
- DSM 6.2.2-24922 Update 4 (and above)
- Video Station 2.4.6-1594 (and above)
- SynoCommunity ffmpeg 4.2.1-23 (and above) (help)
- [DTS or EAC3 or TrueHD] + [Any non HEVC standard video format]: ✅
- [no DTS, no EAC3, no TrueHD] + [HEVC]: ✅
- [DTS or EAC3 or TrueHD] + [HEVC]:
⚠️ Not working on architectures where Advanced Media Extensions uses GStreamer for audio decoding (Please don't submit any more issue related to this scenario, I'm working on it, see #33)
- Check that you meet the required dependencies
- Install SynoCommunity ffmpeg (help)
- If you plan to play HEVC / AAC videos, install Advanced Media Extensions
- Connect to your NAS using SSH (admin user required) (help)
- Use the command
sudo -ito switch to root user - Use the following command (Basic command) to execute the patch
- You'll have to re-run the patcher everytime you update VideoStation, Advanced Media Extensions and DSM
Basic command:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexPresso/VideoStation-FFMPEG-Patcher/main/patcher.sh | bash
With options:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlexPresso/VideoStation-FFMPEG-Patcher/main/patcher.sh | bash -s -- <flags>
| Flags | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| -a | No | Action flag: choose between patch or unpatch ; example: -a patch |
patch |
| -b | No | Branch flag: allows you to choose the wrapper branch to use ; example -b main |
main |
| -p | No | Proxy flag: allows you to use a proxy to connect to github ; example -p http://my-proxy |
https://github.com |