Multiple streams possible?

Hi,

is it possible to transcode and stream several movies to various user at the same time - or will it ever be possible?

f.e.:
User A watching movie A (transcoding)
User B watching movie B (native)
User C watching movie C (transcoding)


Thanks ahead,
Daniel

[atc98092]

Certainly. It's only limited by your hardware being able to keep up. Transcoding obviously takes much more power. If you could ensure your files could be played without transcoding, even a fairly modest computer could stream quite a number of files.

Remember one additional thing: a hard drive can only read and/or write to one place on the drive at a time. (Yes, there are special hard drives that have two read/write heads, but not easy to find and not cheap.) While hard drives are extremely fast for accessing multiple places in real time. you'l still like reach a limit on the number of streams that can be maintained without encounter buffering. That's one reason I've spread my media across six different drives. Less likely to be streaming to multiple players from the same drive at the same time.

Thank you atc,

last time I tested it (about 2 years ago) it didn't work (even without transcoding).. I use a intel nuc5i7 with enough power to do 4 transcodings at the same time (tested with mezzmo) and a qnap nas with 4 WD red hdd's, which are fast enough too

So i'll test it again with serviio this weekend!


Best regards,
Daniel