Starting the program

When you start the program the first time you should go straight to the settings-menu. There, you can enter which configuration file you want to use. You can either use one the provided configuration files (located in the directory: /usr/syno/etc/poisonconvert/PoisonConvert_Config-files by default) or specify your own.

At the current version, PoisonConvert comes with these config-files:

• AppleTV3 - basically remux mkv files to m4v and convert ac3 to aac. Subrip subtitles will be converted to mov_text. This should enable your AppleTV to play back converted files.
• Chromecast - Convert files to mp4 and non-aac audio to aac. Subtitles are preserved in mov_text format but most likely the Chromecast can't display them.
• Extractdts - Extracts the dts audio stream out of movies (use in conjunction with other config-files)
• OPTIMIZEonly - optimizes mov, m4v and mp4 files for streaming
• EmptyConfig - default config file (empty)

Also make sure that you set all listed settings or you will not be able to start conversions. Note: if you start the program for the first time, you will see a warning that the settings-file was created in /usr/syno/etc/poisonconvert/. This is normal behaviour.

While converting, PoisonConvert creates the following temporary file in /tmp/: "poisonXprobelist" which contains parameters of the file that is processed now.

To go straight to the main-screen, you can start PoisonConvert with: poisonconvert

To directly start a conversion with the default config-file, add the parameter 'start' to the program: poisonconvert --start or poisonconvert -s

To start a conversion with other config files, add the filenames of the config-files as parameters. The program will process one after the other: poisonconvert --start --config-file [config-file 1] --config-file [config-file 2] ...

To get the version of the program, type: poisonconvert --version