Canceling file transcoding operations

Hi,

I would like to request a new feature / enhancement in the transcoding menu. I would like to be able to see which file is currently being transcoded and be able to cancel, pause / delete the file that are being transcoded. Can any one tell me how long a transcoded file stays on the hard drive.

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Can any one tell me how long a transcoded file stays on the hard drive.

Until either of these happens:

- Serviio exits
- Serviio starts
- a new transcoded file is played on the same player (a new file will be created, old one removed)

Thanks for the info and keep up the good work on Serviio. For me this is one of the best DLNA software packages i've used. Not only does it work from install with out lots of configuring but the interface is clean and simple to understand.

Can any one tell me how long a transcoded file stays on the hard drive.

Until either of these happens:

- Serviio exits
- Serviio starts
- a new transcoded file is played on the same player (a new file will be created, old one removed)

I've found that once I exit Serviio (which in turn closes the console) the transcoding process does stop automatically which is great. However i'm unable to restart the program from the start menu, I get an error message saying "Serviio server is not running exiting" (Which is understandable) but the shortcut "start serviio service", which i assume should manually start this service does not seem to work. I pasted the shortcut contents ("C:\Program Files\Serviio\bin\ServiioService.exe" -start) into a cmd prompt and it returns an error 5. What am i doing wrong?

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That is weird, maybe OS related? Can you start the service from the Services Windows application?

[patters]

On Windows Vista and Windows 7 you need to right-click on that Start Serviio Service shortcut and select Run as Administrator or it won't work. UAC means that even as an Administrator you don't have sufficient privileges to start and stop services without elevation - that's the way Windows is designed.

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On Windows Vista and Windows 7 you need to right-click on that Start Serviio Service shortcut and select Run as Administrator or it won't work. UAC means that even as an Administrator you don't have sufficient privileges to start and stop services without elevation - that's the way Windows is designed.

you can also edit the shortcut to always run as administrator to

Thanks for the Info.

I Tested on Xp and it worked fine and I altered the shortcuts to run as admin to work around this issue on my windows 7 laptop. Trust Microsoft to write UAC to be consistent (Not ) when requesting privileges for programs that require access to system resources.

I've found that It also works if you add run as admin to the ServiioService.exe on the compatibly tab, Which means it will works for both start and stop shortcuts. Perhaps this is something that should be done as part of the installation program?