Live TV Recording - HDHomerun Extend

[Erik 124]

@@Luke

 

I can see when i watch live TV that emby requests the stream as "Heavy" for max quality (transcoded of course to h.264 by the HDhomerun extend device).

 

I was just curious if when recording live TV does it also do the same? I only ask as the i had a connect version (MPEG-2) and now with the extend version (H.264) the file size for a 1 hour episode of HD content seems to be about the same. I thought it would be smaller now with the transcoded format.

 

Thanks,

Erik

 

[Luke 42077]

it could yes. you'll have to verify by checking the url requested from the tuner in the server log.

[Erik 124]

@@Luke

 

I'm not sure what i would be looking for...so i attached the server log for when it did a test recording for an HD episode of "supergirl".

 

Erik

[Luke 42077]

looks like it didn't.

[Erik 124]

Sorry, im being dense today...

 

I assume you mean it didn't request it as heavy transcode? so it just grabs it as raw then I assume?

[Luke 42077]

yea it grabs the raw stream.

[Erik 124]

Thanks for the that, I did a test watching form a browser and see the http request is specifically requesting the "heavy" profile there.

 

Is this on the roadmap already, such as a default of heavy or maybe a choice when setting up a recording of what quality you want to record.

 

Or should I make a formal feature request?

[Luke 42077]

we're planning on doing our own h264 conversion of recording soon. it will also convert the audio so that the file is streaming friendly.

[Erik 124]

Excellent, as always. I'll leave it to the team.