2024-08-29, 11:56 PM
OK some more investigation revealed some things. I figured the way to enforce encoding was to use a codec incompatible with the client, so I encoded a file as H265 and tried viewing it in the firefox client. Lo and behold, GPU usage and files in the transcodes folder! Streaming this was extremely fast and I could even skip around the video with no buffering.
So what I learned:
As for what to do about this... it seems pretty silly to try and encode all of my videos in an incompatable format so they get encoded. Especially since I usually use the Desktop client, which supports all codecs. But perhaps I should look into the efficiency of different codecs.
So what I learned:
- my GPU settings *are* correct
- the video will encode if the client does not support the codec
- @The Dread Pirate was right and the video was just copying over
As for what to do about this... it seems pretty silly to try and encode all of my videos in an incompatable format so they get encoded. Especially since I usually use the Desktop client, which supports all codecs. But perhaps I should look into the efficiency of different codecs.