Audio Bitrate

[raidflex 9]

Does anyone know how to set the audio Bitrate for music for LAN connections?

 

I use openVPN so I do not have my server open to the internet, but when I set the audio bitrate in the app settings it is not transcoding and only direct plays. All my music is flac and I want to transcode to 320kbps or less so it does not use a ton of mobile data

 

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[Luke 42077]

It is currently not configurable, as it assumes the local network will be able to handle flac bitrates. Are you saying you're actually outside your network?

[raidflex 9]

It is currently not configurable, as it assumes the local network will be able to handle flac bitrates. Are you saying you're actually outside your network?

Yes I have an openVPN server setup on my pfsense firewall, I use this for connecting back to my network for a secure connection.

 

So your saying there is no way to force a certain bitrate?

 

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[Luke 42077]

On the local network not really. If this were a reverse proxy, then you'd want to make sure the appropriate request headers are filled in (x-forwarded-for / x-real-ip) so that emby can see the original ip address of the remote endpoint. This would allow the server to determine if the request is inside the local network or not, and then all features just work.  A VPN is different though, but if that can be accomplished somehow then you'd get a better result.

[raidflex 9]

On the local network not really. If this were a reverse proxy, then you'd want to make sure the appropriate request headers are filled in (x-forwarded-for / x-real-ip) so that emby can see the original ip address of the remote endpoint. This would allow the server to determine if the request is inside the local network or not, and then all features just work.  A VPN is different though, but if that can be accomplished somehow then you'd get a better result.

 

I really think there should be a bitrate option that can be set to force transcoding, this could also help if there is a device that cannot play a specific format. Please take this into consideration. 

[Luke 42077]

@@raidflex, yes sure, that is easily done, what i'm trying to say though is that you will inevitably encounter other problems if you don't look into what I mentioned above.

[raidflex 9]

@@raidflex, yes sure, that is easily done, what i'm trying to say though is that you will inevitably encounter other problems if you don't look into what I mentioned above.

 

I have my own OpenVPN server setup, so I have multiple VLANs with rules allowing/blocking access between them. My OpenVPN VLAN has a rule allowing access to the VLAN that Emby is on.