Throttling ???

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

In a pretty large number of different threads it was recommended that throttling be disabled to cure problems like buffering on some clients and there were also some that recommended it for other issues like failure to remain paused on Rokus and it seems several other problems on different clients.

I have throttling disabled and everything seems to work quite well but I would like to know a bit more.

What, exactly, does throttling do?

Are there any real advantages to throttling if the server is pretty powerful and also has very limited other duties?

Is throttling more important with or without hardware encoding enabled?

Are there any adverse interactions between hardware transcoding and throttling?

Most of my files are in formats that at most need audio transcoding but there are a number of old, very old in some cases, TV shows that are in avi formats that are simply not watched enough to make going through the effort to get them in another format worthwhile.

I am just trying to understand hardware transcoding and throttling and what advantages/disadvantages there are for each and for any combination.

Thanks for any help and please forgive the fact that my old brain does not seem to process info from multiple sources like it used to.

Edited July 20, 2020 by Gilgamesh_48

[Happy2Play 9783]

Throttling will keep transcoding x amount of seconds ahead of playback vs no throttling will transcode then entire file at once.

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

7 minutes ago, Happy2Play said:

Throttling will keep transcoding x amount of seconds ahead of playback vs no throttling will transcode then entire file at once.

Thanks but that answer, while true and pretty self explanatory does not really reduce the mystery that is the universe of transcoding. What are any interactions between transcoding and throttling that are causing problems for several users? Also are the bugs/bug that are causing problems for many being fixed?

It does seem that it does not effect everyone so what are the known hardware/software server/client combinations that cause problems?

I know it seems i am being particularly dense but I just seem to not grasp why, in some cases, there are problems with some systems and not with others.

[ebr 16187]

9 hours ago, Gilgamesh_48 said:

What are any interactions between transcoding and throttling that are causing problems for several users? 

If we knew that they would likely be fixed already :).  We are still investigating.  Whatever the issue is, it likely isn't really a problem with our throttling - instead, it is probably just that that feature creates a situation that makes whatever the real problem is more likely to manifest.