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abared

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Post Sat Apr 09, 2016 10:23 am

Very big temp file

Hello.

I have a question. I am playing video from my Synology NAS to my Philips TV. Movie size is 1.37GB. The work Serviio has to do is, to transcode video (burn in subtitles and convert DTS sound).

On TV it's playing without problems. However, I logged in on NAS now and went to @tmp folder where it stores temporary file, and file for that movie is 5.7GB big after transcoding. I turned off TV a while ago, but as I read transoding will go on till the end of file. The thing I don't understand is, how can size raise from 1.37GB originally, to 5.7GB? It's not adding any content.

Is that normal behaviour or there's something wrong?

So if I want to play some HD movie (like 20GB) then it will take like 100GB on my HDD after transcoding?

Regards
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DenyAll

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Post Sun Apr 10, 2016 12:27 am

Re: Very big temp file

Yes its normal - to what extent depends on the codecs being transcoded.

If your original movie contained a h264 video stream (very efficient, highly compressed) then this may be getting transcoded by Serviio to mpeg-2 video (which is less compressed, but playable on more devices), then yes, you can see a 4-5 fold increase in file size.
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