How can I disable transcoding??

[jmos1277 9]

I just installed Emby on a Linux server.  I play all of my media on a separate Window 7 HTPC via Emby for WMC.

 

I noticed that Emby on Linux is transcoding all of the videos that I watch and putting the transcoded file into the transcoding-temp folder.

 

Here are a couple of questions:

 

1) Is Emby streaming the transcoder version of the file to my HTPC or is it streaming the original media?  If is streaming the original media, does that mean that Emby is just transcoding for fun?

 

2) In either case, how can I disable transcoding to my Emby in WMC?

 

 

As a side note, prior to my new install I had been running Emby/MediaBrowser server on the same Windows 7 box on which I was running Emby in WMC.  I do not believe it was doing any transcoding.

 

 

[thefirstofthe300 292]

I believe that there is a way to disable all transcoding on a per user basis in the dashboard somewhere. The server shouldn't be transcoding to WMC though. Have you made sure that the client bitrate is higher than the video file's?

 

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[jmos1277 9]

Ok, I figured out how to fix my issue.

 

It turns out that I couldn't 'direct play' because my Emby-WMC client did not know where to find my media files.  I recently started running Emby Server in a Docker container on my NAS.  Of course, to all of my media paths now look something like this:  /mnt/Movies or /mnt/TV_Shows/.  Since Emby-WMC didn't have access to those paths it seems that Emby Server decided to transcode the video and send it along.

 

The quick and easy fix was to use a path substitution so Emby-WMC could find the files on my NAS.  I just created a single path substitution and now everything works GREAT.  No more transcoding and my NAS CPU utilization went from 99% down to 2%.  NICE!

 

Here is my path substitution for anyone curious:

 

From:  /mnt

To:    \\192.168.1.10

 

Edited to remove a trailing backslash on the \\192.168.1.10.  

This made the difference between direct streaming and direct playing.

Edited September 30, 2015 by jmos1277

[Luke 42077]

Well done.