Help finding something in h.264 that WILL transcode

[plaidstallion 9]

Hey guys. Can someone help me out with where to grab a file that Emby WILL transcode that is h.264? The reason I ask is that I have been doing testing to pass a video card to a container (LXC) within Proxmox that will hardware decode in Emby. The card is just a GTX670 that I wanted to try with before buying something that will do h.265. I have gotten to the point that I can see the card in Emby but I haven't found anything with h.264 compliance that any of my clients won't just direct stream. It is a great problem to have for sure but I would really like to see some proof that Emby will call the video card for transcodes before buying a GTX 1660 or something.

 

My clients I can test with are:

 

Essential Phone

Xbox One (not X)

AppleTV 4

 

I have tried throwing files at these clients with idx/subs, I have tried throwing the largest h264 files I can find. Nothing will transcode to these clients. Something must have gotten better with the Xbox One as I actually kinda put it in storage in favor of the AppleTV 4 as I remember it always used to need to transcode EVERYTHING it seemed. Now it's a direct streaming beast.

 

I tried one h.265 file for funsies and of course Emby was just trying to transcode that through the CPU which makes sense.

[maegibbons 1287]

Just drop the bitrate, below the native bitrate of the video, in one of the apps and that will force it to Transcode any/all media

 

Krs

 

Mark

 

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Edited March 15, 2020 by maegibbons

[plaidstallion 9]

Just drop the bitrate, below the native bitrate of the video, in one of the apps and that will force it to Transcode any/all media

 

Krs

 

Mark

 

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Well damn do I feel like a dummy. The video card is working in the container. Thanks for the help.