Serviio

Hi there.

I had an idea if offline transcoding wouldn't be a nice optional feature.

I basically would rebuild my database or a part of it with the data format as accepted by the TV.

And safe it on a separate drive.

That might more efficient then transcoding all the stuff in realtime over and over again.

Low power servers wouldn't suffer anymore from transcoding stress.

And powerconsumption would probably go done as well as HDD wear down.


Obviously things get complicated if your run more then one device.

What do you think?

Cheers

I think there are better tools suited for this.

Hmmh. Probably.

But these tools are

a. not integrated into Serviio resp. its environment.
b. do not supply a working transcoding ruleset.


Cheers

Your much better off and more likely to get better results spending the time researching and doing it the conversion 'offline' yourself.
Real time is good if you have a multitude of devices to support, but if you just have the one find out what codec it supports best and use a program like handbrake. It does take sometime experimenting to find good settings for your requirements but its worth it.

Yes I see that.

Still. Highest quality realtime decoding and streaming needs a lot of horsepowers. You need a server PC with quite some steam under the hood. Usually such a high power server costs a lot and eats a lot of idle watts too.

I'll checkout offline decoding.


THX