What profile and transcoding does MediaBrowser use?
Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2021 4:19 pm
I'm trying to get online transcoding to work on a vizio tv (separate post) and ran across some issues using MediaBrowser while testing my http video streams.
What profile is it using? MB will definitely kick off ffmpeg and create transcoding files, the log says "profile=HTML5" but that is not in profiles.xml
I'm asking because mediabrowser will play some container/video/audio combos (like mp4/avc3.1/aac, mkv/avc4.1/aac, mkv/avc10/mp3) but not others (like ac3 audio or hevc-265). So mkv/hevc/aac will play audio but no video is shown, mkv/avc10/ac3 will play video but no audio even though a transcoding job is running in all these cases.
The source is a local video file http-streamed through VLC and my PC has all the codecs to play these natively and when I play them as local files with mediabrowser, they play with no problem, even the mkv/hevc/ac3 combination which fails both video and audio when it's an "online" source.
So the local-source and online transcoding definitely work differently for mediabrowser and that's my question, what profile is it using and where/how is the transcoding controlled?
Or, is hevc/h265 streaming over http not supported? From what I've read, ac3 audio is supported and I haven't seen that hevc is "not" supported so I don't think that's the problem.
What profile is it using? MB will definitely kick off ffmpeg and create transcoding files, the log says "profile=HTML5" but that is not in profiles.xml
I'm asking because mediabrowser will play some container/video/audio combos (like mp4/avc3.1/aac, mkv/avc4.1/aac, mkv/avc10/mp3) but not others (like ac3 audio or hevc-265). So mkv/hevc/aac will play audio but no video is shown, mkv/avc10/ac3 will play video but no audio even though a transcoding job is running in all these cases.
The source is a local video file http-streamed through VLC and my PC has all the codecs to play these natively and when I play them as local files with mediabrowser, they play with no problem, even the mkv/hevc/ac3 combination which fails both video and audio when it's an "online" source.
So the local-source and online transcoding definitely work differently for mediabrowser and that's my question, what profile is it using and where/how is the transcoding controlled?
Or, is hevc/h265 streaming over http not supported? From what I've read, ac3 audio is supported and I haven't seen that hevc is "not" supported so I don't think that's the problem.