2024-03-05, 07:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-03-05, 07:47 PM by Efficient_Good_5784. Edited 1 time in total.)
Can you provide examples of why your friend's streams will need to transcode? Is it due to something like subs being incompatible with the client? A video codec being unsupported by the client? Or is it always because the bitrate limit was passed?
If it's just for the bitrate limit being passed, it makes sense that the transcode bitrate will be as high as possible (up to your set limit) to avoid losing video quality. Your friend will have to manually set a lower bitrate on the client to force a lower bitrate that will play.
You can also make your friend use a client that can direct play most to all media types to avoid transcoding in general. Something like Jellyfin Media Player or MPV Shim will direct play most things.
Just to make sure, are you saying that videos with a low bitrate are being transcoded with a super high final bitrate? For example, a video with 5Mbps bitrate being transcoded to 100Mbps?
If it's just for the bitrate limit being passed, it makes sense that the transcode bitrate will be as high as possible (up to your set limit) to avoid losing video quality. Your friend will have to manually set a lower bitrate on the client to force a lower bitrate that will play.
You can also make your friend use a client that can direct play most to all media types to avoid transcoding in general. Something like Jellyfin Media Player or MPV Shim will direct play most things.
Just to make sure, are you saying that videos with a low bitrate are being transcoded with a super high final bitrate? For example, a video with 5Mbps bitrate being transcoded to 100Mbps?