Just curious how many streams you get at once

[swindmiller 5]

I am still new to setting everything up and love all of the features. i know the amount of streams you can do simultaneously depends on CPU, upload speed and so on but I was just wondering how many other people have been able to do at one time.

I have an i7 with 12gb of memory and one stream uses around 30% so it looks like I will be able to do 2 or 3 at one time, does that sound about right?

Most of my movies are run thru handbrake at the high profile setting. Most movies are around 2-4gb (some around 8gb) with 5.1 sound. I don't have any intention on re-encoding them to be more stream friendly as i will just deal with the 2 or 3 at once.

 

On a side note, is there anyway to offload the transcoding to another computer when the primary is at a certain percentage of cpu being used?

 

Thanks,

Scott

[trusselo 225]

depends on a number of things

 

• what client you are streaming to :

-android/ios/roku require transcoding and more processing power on the server

-MBC and MBT dont transcode and require minimal resources from the server

• the resolution of the device changes how much transcoding is needed
• the speed of the connection/ speed setting in the app. less speed=more transcoding.  
• data vs wifi - see above
• exact codec of each file
• exact bitrate of that codec
• audio 2 or 5.1

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Edited April 19, 2014 by trusselo

[swindmiller 5]

Thanks for the breakdown..that helps. I knew it depended on several factors but was more curious as to what others get.

 

Along with an actual question at the end