What is Serviio and how does it work?

I know that it streams Files but does it decode them and then send them?

Or does it Stream the Files on the Fly to a "Player" that decodes them?

Thanks!

[Cerberus]

Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network.

and u must have read that on the main main :/ http://www.serviio.org/

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player decodes them. player supports certain set of codecs that it can decode. If the original file is encoded using an unsupported codec it re-encodes it to a supported one first (transcoding) and then sends the result to the player

Serviio is a free media server. It allows you to stream your media files (music, video or images) to renderer devices (e.g. a TV set, Bluray player, games console or mobile phone) on your connected home network.

and u must have read that on the main main :/ http://www.serviio.org/

Yep, read that. but I may be misunderstanding it. If I have a TV (Smasung UN55D6000SF[DLNA Certified and manual gives files that are able to be decoded by the TV itself]) and use Serviio or Allshare, What is doing the Decoding? teh Server Software (i.e. Serviio or Allshare) on my PC or is that the Streaming Software and the TV is actually Decoding it?

Someone is telling me that these Server Streaming Programs (i.e. Serviio and Allshare) are decoding the A/V files in my MKV containers and then sending the Decoded info to be merely "displayed" by the This TV......???

player decodes them. player supports certain set of codecs that it can decode. If the original file is encoded using an unsupported codec it re-encodes it to a supported one first (transcoding) and then sends the result to the player

Player as in the TV, Right??? If I'm correct and it sounds like I am, I need to put someone in their "place" by evidence... This person is insulting me purposefully by telling me that I'm misunderstanding what "streaming" is. They say that Straming IS INDEED "decoding"?????

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Server is not decoding them, otherwise it'd have to send raw image data over the network. All it does (the simplest server you can have) is to announce a file on a URL and the TV downloads it from there (similar like clicking a link in a browser).

TV has to have the codecs to decode the file, eg mpeg2, divx, h264, etc. Some of these cost a lot of money and that's why some manufacturers only support a fraction of them and then the server has to transcode to one of the available formats the TV can decode.

Server is not decoding them, otherwise it'd have to send raw image data over the network. All it does (the simplest server you can have) is to announce a file on a URL and the TV downloads it from there (similar like clicking a link in a browser).

TV has to have the codecs to decode the file, eg mpeg2, divx, h264, etc. Some of these cost a lot of money and that's why some manufacturers only support a fraction of them and then the server has to transcode to one of the available formats the TV can decode.

Awesome Thank you!

Do you mind if I quote you on "AVSForum" and give a link to this thread?

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Thank you sir!

Server is not decoding them, otherwise it'd have to send raw image data over the network. All it does (the simplest server you can have) is to announce a file on a URL and the TV downloads it from there (similar like clicking a link in a browser).

TV has to have the codecs to decode the file, eg mpeg2, divx, h264, etc. Some of these cost a lot of money and that's why some manufacturers only support a fraction of them and then the server has to transcode to one of the available formats the TV can decode.

Awesome Thank you!
Do you mind if I quote you on "AVSForum" and give a link to this thread?

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