Force Transcoding or client quality setting

[VicMoore 754]

Can transcoding be forced via code in a plugin?  And, can the quality setting in a client be changed via a plugin?

Vic

[Luke 42077]

HI, there is no way to do this. Why would you want to?

[VicMoore 754]

@LukeI have "Twilight Zone" episodes that play with jerky movements. The client is a Samsung TV. The Quality setting in the client is 1MBs.  When I reduce the quality setting to 750 KBs everything plays OK.  I have been trying various things to automatically resolve this problem. Thats why I asked the question above.

Vic

[MagicDoubleM 121]

4 hours ago, VicMoore said:

@LukeI have "Twilight Zone" episodes that play with jerky movements. The client is a Samsung TV. The Quality setting in the client is 1MBs.  When I reduce the quality setting to 750 KBs everything plays OK.  I have been trying various things to automatically resolve this problem. Thats why I asked the question above.

Vic

You should find out if your network is the problem. If you have in general issues with 1mb/s, then you should do something about your network-connections. 1mbit/s is pretty low already to begin with. 

But if you can play other stuff with higher bitrates just fine, then it's probably something about the used codecs of these files. Sometimes its even just the container, and for example a remux from mp4 to mkv can do the trick.

If you have to re-encode all these episodes to get them playing, and networking isn't the cause of this, you should re-encode them outside emby, with a tool like Handbrake or tdarr for example, and use a higher bitrate than the original one, to keep quality loss under control.

[VicMoore 754]

@MagicDoubleMyou are exactly right. I have checked the network and it's not the problem. As you recommended, re-encoding fixes the problem. I appreciate your comments, they were very helpful. I kept experimenting with this problem to learn more about streaming.  I am always trying to improve the PseudoTV plugin.

Thanks again, Vic