Starting from today, you can find a new plugin in the catalog:
Transcoding Tests
The plugin allows to perform a wide range of tests using a defined set of source files.
These tests will help to better understand user issues, compare the behavior on different systems, while it rules out many of those factors which are often hard to impossible to rule out.
Another use case is benchmarking and/or comparing the effects of different settings on performance and quality.
Instructions
Install the plugin from the catalog, then reboot Emby Server.
On the server dashboard, find the navigation menu entry "Transcoding Tests" somewhere among the last entries.
First of all, you need to
Configure Settings
Please enter two different paths for test files and the generated output
The output can take quite an amount of storage, most of which is taken by the transcoded output files.
I would recommend the setting above, as it is