Transmux/Direct Stream support?

[pmcd 0]

Would it be possible for Emby to support transmuxing of streams? That is, changing a container without having to transcode the streams? Plex calls this Direct Streaming as opposed to Direct Play. This would make the Apple TV 4 work wonders with the Emby app. The resources required to transmux are far less than a full transcode.

Edited April 9, 2016 by pmcd

[Luke 37112]

Hi, yes, some apps do this already, and the next server release will improve this even more:

 

http://emby.media/community/index.php?/blog/1/entry-296-new-emby-server-releases/

 

We haven't yet brought it to apple tv though.

[pmcd 0]

Sounds great. Is there a list of which apps support this? For example Fire TV, Android, etc ...? It would be great to have this for iOS and tvOS! For what it's worth Plex has this already but of course you have other features that are very neat. Am currently a lifetime Plex Pass member but am very interested in Emby. I have it running on a QNAP TS-251+ . Unfortunately, it uses too many resources when playing to the ATV 4. Far fewer when playing to a Fire TV.

[Luke 37112]

in the new beta server, pretty much every app has it now except for apple tv, fire tv, and ios. 

[ebr 14929]

The Fire TV beta does but that app also doesn't need to transcode that much.

 

Apple TV needs to transcode anything not in Apple format (mp4/mv4).