2024-06-21, 02:47 AM
(2024-06-20, 10:32 PM)TheDreadPirate Wrote: Remuxing alone is, practically speaking, direct playing since nothing is being re-encoded. But if something is bottlenecking your system, whether that is disk throughput, maybe it would cause that stuttering/dropped frame issue. Is the directory transcodes written to a SSD or HDD?
MKVs on their own will only cause re-muxing. What codecs are in the MKVs will determine whether transcoding happens. Audio channels I don't think cause transcoding. Most clients will just downmix the channels to whatever is available. I believe web browsers will require audio transcodes for 7.1 since they support 5.1 max.
Appreciate that info. I will keep an eye on the error and see if I do get frame drops. I do have the transcodes writing to an SSD, but I do see the drive get to 100% utilization when it happens. Not sure if I can do more to help with that or not.