CalypsoCowboy 4 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 I'm just getting started with MediaBrowser, OpenElec and XBMB3C and had a question. I've noticed in OpenElec, when I play a .iso or .mkv, the file plays on my OpenElec box (Chromebox), it plays fine and uses very little if any CPU on my server. It is showing the stream as Direct Play. It seems like when I play a DVD, stored in a VIDEO_TS structures, I've only played with a few, it transcodes the movie on the server and sends it to the OpenElec box. It does show as Transcoding. From what I understand the OpenElec should be able to play the DVD natively and not transcode it. Is that the case or will MediaBrowser always transcode the DVD or am I missing a setting somewhere. Part of the reason I ask is my server is currently a lowly Core 2 Duo that only scores 1000 on the Passmark, so transcoding maxes out my server. Still learning about all this. -Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xnappo 1593 Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Definitely sounds like something is wrong. If you are sure you are using UNC paths for the path to the movies (ie \\machine\drive\movies not e:\movies') then please change the log level to '1' in the AddOn advanced settings and post a log. Log files can be found here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Log_file/Advanced#Location xnappo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalypsoCowboy 4 Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Okay, I'm still working on the xbmc log, I don't think I got the correct one, but here are the server and transcoding log off the server from the event. I found the xbmc logs, but for some reason the date and times seem off and not sure I have the correct ones. -Josh shortserverlog.txt transcodinglog.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xnappo 1593 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Yeah, neither of those does me any good - sorry. xnappo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalypsoCowboy 4 Posted September 24, 2014 Author Share Posted September 24, 2014 Okay, I think I have this log thing figured out now. This was as I was playing Batman Begins -Josh xbmc.log Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xnappo 1593 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 (edited) Okay, easy. Just go to: Settings->Network and change 'Video Quality' to '1000.0 Mbps HD'. This isn't very well named... It is used both to determine the transcoding rate AND to specify your network's capability. @@im85288 .... xnappo Edited September 24, 2014 by xnappo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalypsoCowboy 4 Posted September 25, 2014 Author Share Posted September 25, 2014 Thanks, that worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
im85288 1493 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Okay, easy. Just go to: Settings->Network and change 'Video Quality' to '1000.0 Mbps HD'. This isn't very well named... It is used both to determine the transcoding rate AND to specify your network's capability. @@im85288 .... xnappo @@xnappo - I would say the two go hand in hand really, I took the naming from @@Luke suggestion of how it's done in other clients. If your saying your network/video quality can handle say 5mbps then surely that implies transcoding will be 5mbps and therefore your network can handle 5mbps? Would you suggest an alternative name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xnappo 1593 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 (edited) Network speed maybe? Still, is something wrong with the x1000 math in the code? A DVD doesn't have a bitrate over 9.8mbps...xnappo Edited September 25, 2014 by xnappo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xnappo 1593 Posted September 26, 2014 Share Posted September 26, 2014 Exactly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalypsoCowboy 4 Posted September 26, 2014 Author Share Posted September 26, 2014 This info is in the xbmc.log file posted, .","Path":"\\\\cascade\\TempMovies\\Batman Begins (2005)","OfficialRating":"PG-13","Overview":"Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.","Genres":["Action","Adventure"],"CommunityRating":8.3,"VoteCount":699721,"RunTimeTicks":83928000000,"PlayAccess":"Full","ProductionYear":2005,"IsPlaceHolder":false,"IsHD":false,"IsFolder":false,"Type":"Movie","LocalTrailerCount":0,"UserData":{"PlayedPercentage":0,"PlaybackPositionTicks":0,"PlayCount":8,"IsFavorite":false,"LastPlayedDate":"2014-09-23T04:23:19.3856161Z","Played":false,"Key":"272"},"MediaStreams":[{"Codec":"mpeg2video","IsInterlaced":false,"BitRate":5919600,"BitDepth":8,"IsDefault":false,"IsForced":false,"Height":480,"Width":720,"AverageFrameRate":29.91667,"RealFrameRate":59.94006,"Profile":"Main","Type":"Video","AspectRatio":"4:3","Index":1,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"PixelFormat":"yuv420p","Level":8,"IsAnamorphic":false}, It shows the rate as 5919600. Before it was set to 100, now it's 1000. But I interpretted the value as if the bit rate was over 100M it would transcode which seems correct which is why I thought it was odd the DVD was doing it and not the blurays. Let me know if there is anything else I can provide. MBS is 3.0.5366.22005, XBMB3C is 0.9.543 -Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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