This patcher is designed to simplify the installation steps from this Gist (huge thanks to Benjamin Poncet) and enable DTS, EAC3 and TrueHD support to Synology VideoStation by replacing the ffmpeg library files by a wrapper using SynoCommunity ffmpeg.

Supported architectures

(check your NAS architecture here)

ARMv8 ✅ (DSM 7.0 ready)
Old ARM ✅ (DSM 7.0 ready)
x64 ✅ (DSM 7.0 ready)
x86 ✅ (DSM 7.0 ready)

Dependencies

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)

Instructions

Check that you meet the required dependencies
Install SynoCommunity ffmpeg (help)
Connect to your NAS using SSH (admin user required) (help)
Use the command sudo -i to 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

Usage

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 -- <option>

Options	Description
-patch	patch VideoStation and CodecPack
-unpatch	restore VideoStation and CodecPack to default files