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Force transcode for specific device/user account - jozo mokry - 2025-09-07
Hi guys!
I ran into some problem regarding playing live tv on my android tv box. Until now i used Xiaomi TV sticks and they worked fine despite the lag. I bought a mecool km6 and it has a problem playing some channels. Did some digging and found out it doesnt like interlaced streams. I found a solution by setting max bitrate to 5 Mbit/s it transcodes instead of direct play.
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High) ([27][0][0][0] / 0x001B), yuv420p(tv, bt709, top first), 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 25 fps, 50 tbr, 90k tbn
this is direct - white artefacts
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), vaapi(tv, bt709, progressive), 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], q=2-31, 4840 kb/s, 25 fps, 90k tbn
this is transcoded - clean but low quality video
I attached a photo of the artefacts
I was thinking of disabling hardware decoding on the android tv box but cannot find it anywhere. I could use external player but i would loose the EPG.
Any help is appreciated
