Transcode 4K video to 1080 HD
Untill I bought a 4K video camera and captured some 4k videos, the assets can only be played on Mac. I edit them via iMovie then saved to 1080p *.mp4 before watching on TV. I though I should give a go of Serviio transcoding 4K to 1080p HD so that I can watch directly on my TV that doesn’t support 4K.
My 4k video files are *.MP4 which I assumed they’re MP4 container, codec is H264, resolution is 2160x3840. When I tried to play that file from TV with Seriio trancoding=off, TV report the file format isn’t supported.
When I turned serviio transcoding ON, TV reported resolution 2160x3840 isn’t supported. Looks Serviio is doing transcoding(to some format) with same solution.
So, I loacated profile file and added following under Samsung E TV session:
By which I wish Serviio will transcode 4K video to 1920x1080 file by assigning maxHeight="1080". However the TV is still reporting resolution 2160x3840 is not supported so transcoding/changing resolusion is not happening. My guess are a) option maxHeight="1080" doesn’t work b) the profile I inserted isn’t called. I tried with forceVTranscoding on as well.
Any one has experience implementing that? My serviio version is 1.6.1. Thanks.