Transcoding question

[Pog22 52]

When transcoding a high bitrate file down say 20mbit+ is it easier on the server to transcode to 5mbit or 10mbit. Which is easier? Does the server have to do extra work to get it a lower bitrate?

Edited September 21, 2018 by colfin22

[mastrmind11 722]

When transcoding a high bitrate file down say 20mbit+ is it easier on the server to transcode to 5mbit or 10mbit. Which is easier? Does the server have to do extra work to get it a lower bitrate?

just the opposite.  lower bitrate = less bits = less work to make something look like crap.

[Guest asrequested]

You likely won't see much difference between those two. But for what it's worth, 5Mb/s is less data to write than 10Mb/s.

[Pog22 52]

just the opposite. lower bitrate = less bits = less work to make something look like crap.

Perfect, just what I need to know.

 

I have plenty of bandwidth (Hetzner dedi) but as I'm using gsuite with plexdrive 5 I have an issue with direct play of high bitrate stuff where it buffers as it's not caching before direct playing. Any sort of transcoding fixes the issue, transcoding obviously creates a buffer. I had the same issue on Plex so it's not related to Emby, although Emby is coping a lot better with direct play and stream than Plex. I just need to find my servers sweet spot which is easier once I know how it works.

Edited September 21, 2018 by colfin22