How do you know when transcoding is used for playback?

Hi,

How do you know when transcoding is being used to playback a file (without disabling transcoding first and playing the file)?

Thanks,

->g.

[zip]

you could find in the the (detailed) log

[moltra]

Zip is there anyway that the console could be modified to show what is being played, on what render and if it is being transcoded.

[zip]

not really. And why? Are you watching TV or the console?

[moltra]

just thought it might be helpful when working with mutiple devices using serviio at the same time.

I think that Serviio already "knows" which file is going to be transcoded or not as soon as it lists the files to a particular device. At this stage it compares the library entries to the device's capabilities and lists the MIME types accordingly, and IF that is so, Serviio should be able add an informational symbol to the video's title line to inidicate if it is going to be transcoded. This would really help a lot, paritcularly when optimizing device profiles.

My current way of detecting transcoding is looking at the server's cpu usage or watching if an ffmpeg task is spawned. Pretty complicated, but IMHO still simpler and more real-time than browsing the logfile.

[Illico]

Serviio should be able add an informational symbol to the video's title line to indicate if it is going to be transcoded.

Yes, Serviio could for example add an "#" at the end of the file name to indicate it is transcoded.

[zip]

Serviio should be able add an informational symbol to the video's title line to indicate if it is going to be transcoded.

Yes, Serviio could for example add an "#" at the end of the file name to indicate it is transcoded.

details on why it's not right: https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/i ... transcoded

Ok, I see. You win. Again.