Transcoding question

[DrivenByDemons 2]

I'm trying to encode a few movies that get watched frequently around here so they won't transcode and save me some clock cycles. I usually log in to the server with my main account while my kids account is watching the movie in question and I can see that it's transcoding with the little red bar and the ffmpeg info when I hover over the box. What's weird is I have a movie that runs pretty big on CPU usage and says it's transcoding in the window when I hover but there is no ffmpeg info and no red progress bar. Why would some transcodes show this and some not? 

[Luke 42080]

can you give an example? what info is missing? what app is it playing from?

[DrivenByDemons 2]

Normally I see this with the red progress bar and other info. That's using the web client

 

 

This is what I see with iOS to a chromecast. I'm trying to get this file to go to that chromecast with direct play but it always shows transcoding with high CPU usage and this window...

 

[DrivenByDemons 2]

Nothing on this? I'm trying to figure out why this is transcoding but not actually showing a progress bar or telling me exactly what it's transcoding to. 

[Happy2Play 9782]

Don't know why it only report transcoding with no details since I don't own that device, but there is a transcode log generated every time something is transcoded.  Look at the log and look at the Stream mapping.

 

Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 (native) -> h264 (libx264))
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (copy)

[Luke 42080]

We're working on it. It's just a matter of the iOS app running a little behind and not using our newer api's.