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Remote access w/ Microsoft Surface

PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 1:55 am
by FatalOne
So my question is...

Does anybody know of a surface rt app that will allow you to remotely access your Serviio server and stream the content, in the way that ServiGo functions (transcoding into x264, enhanced profile)

Or

Can I reconfigure Serviio to transcode content to x264 when remotely accessing content through the mediabrowser?

Either of these will do.

Thanks in advanced

Ben

Re: Remote access w/ Microsoft Surface

PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:08 am
by zip
On the RT, when using MediaBrowser, it uses Flash, which gives you better control over playback. Better option than transcoding to HLS / H264.

Re: Remote access w/ Microsoft Surface

PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 11:15 am
by FatalOne
Yeah, I'm aware that mediabrowser uses flash, that's my issue, while flash is useful for low bandwidth situations, its also an inferior codec as far as picture quality. My server is able to transcode 264 on the fly and I also have the bandwidth to support it, so I'm looking for a solution on my rt, that will produce a better picture quality, as seen with ServiGo's enhanced profile.

Any ideas?

Regards
Ben

Re: Remote access w/ Microsoft Surface

PostPosted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 12:43 pm
by zip
MB checks the user agent of the browser to check what method to use (Flash / HLS). So unless you fake it to use iOS header, it's not currently possible.

Unless you want to try to transcode to flash container with h264 codec. I didn't try that, but might work. Just try to update the flv_player profile in application-profiles.xml to use h264 as the targetVCodec.