dannieboiz 13 Posted March 23, 2014 Posted March 23, 2014 From what I observed, it doesn't and if it did, it's doing it a lot different than if you were to watch the move on the browser. I saw little to none CPU spike when streaming to MBT. Not that it's a bad thing but I just want to confirm.
superloopy 1 Posted March 23, 2014 Posted March 23, 2014 (edited) Surely MBS is needed to serve the movie? Am i missing the point? Edited March 23, 2014 by superloopy
Latchmor 584 Posted March 23, 2014 Posted March 23, 2014 Hi MBT (and MBC) will play the movie directly if it has access to the path and it can handle the format. For example most of my movies are DVD rips (*.vob) in VIDEO_TS folders. These are stored on my NAS which all PCs/Clients can see so if I browse my movies on a PC with MBT, which can play VIDEO_TS folders, and play one, it will open it up directly from the NAS and leave the server out of the process. Well, it will report back to the server with the various playing, watched, resume etc statuses. Cheers
superloopy 1 Posted March 23, 2014 Posted March 23, 2014 (edited) You still need server running though, yes? Edited March 23, 2014 by superloopy
ebr 16169 Posted March 23, 2014 Posted March 23, 2014 You still need server running though, yes? Yes. The OP was asking about the transcoding for playback. As Logos said, MBT and MBC will prefer to play back the content directly as opposed to streaming it through our server. MBT can stream it if necessary but you'd only want to do this if you were remote. MBC will try to stream if it can't access the media, but with the player being such old technology, it isn't going to work very well in most cases.
dannieboiz 13 Posted March 23, 2014 Author Posted March 23, 2014 Thanks CBW, will I have issues with speeds when I use MBT when I'm away from home at a location where internet is not so fast? I think the purpose of the server transcoding the video is to better stream to the client device so it isn't processing 25gb of audio/video file over the web right?
A8HTPC 38 Posted March 25, 2014 Posted March 25, 2014 The client side software will negotiate with the server http side software and the server will transcode either both audio and video or just audio or just video depending on what the client side can handle.
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