2024-01-04, 06:24 PM
Thank you for all your hard work on the Android TV client by the way, I use it the Shield, and while it has bugs, it's generally solid. I know you're literally the only person working on it!
I know Apple TV is actually encoding because the video quality is worse than when playing direct play and also I can see the ffmpeg options when listing the processes on my debian server.
I still think it's better for the server to not trust the clients but display its own, since the server itself is launching ffmpeg so it knows which files it's transcoding or encoding, with which exact options as well. Especially since most clients don't have the feature of showing stream information.
As a new father, time is tight at the moment but I will apply to join the development efforts when I have more time as I really love the efficiency of the server, it blows Plex out of the water, especially for those of us who watch with subtitles.
Thank you.
I know Apple TV is actually encoding because the video quality is worse than when playing direct play and also I can see the ffmpeg options when listing the processes on my debian server.
I still think it's better for the server to not trust the clients but display its own, since the server itself is launching ffmpeg so it knows which files it's transcoding or encoding, with which exact options as well. Especially since most clients don't have the feature of showing stream information.
As a new father, time is tight at the moment but I will apply to join the development efforts when I have more time as I really love the efficiency of the server, it blows Plex out of the water, especially for those of us who watch with subtitles.
Thank you.