2023-12-29, 08:52 PM
the decision to direct play is a client side setting not a server side one, when disabling it on the server all it does it break things as you found out
the client still reports it is capable of playing certain video and certain audio types to the server, the server then decides what it needs to do. if the client supports both the video and audio of the original format then the server will send the streams as is and the client will direct play the content
most clients have this hardcoded in based on the platform, some auto-detect capabilities but all report to the server
the client still reports it is capable of playing certain video and certain audio types to the server, the server then decides what it needs to do. if the client supports both the video and audio of the original format then the server will send the streams as is and the client will direct play the content
most clients have this hardcoded in based on the platform, some auto-detect capabilities but all report to the server