2025-01-14, 03:40 PM
I don't think it is and i honestly don't believe it's worth it either.
You could have clients who have limited bandwidth or ropey connections trying to use 1Mbit or even 500kps as their transfer rate and then to support those (without another transcode) you would have to have that limit as your "compatibility" version, in this case it would mean that a H264 only client might have to watch at a 500kps even though their internet has a steady 20mbps download.
Unless you have a ton of clients all accessing at once, it's easier just to pop in a cheap intel arc card and let it handle it all and not have to worry about having multiple versions. As your library grows it will make it considerably cheaper on storage costs as well as you can just keep the 4K versions.
You could have clients who have limited bandwidth or ropey connections trying to use 1Mbit or even 500kps as their transfer rate and then to support those (without another transcode) you would have to have that limit as your "compatibility" version, in this case it would mean that a H264 only client might have to watch at a 500kps even though their internet has a steady 20mbps download.
Unless you have a ton of clients all accessing at once, it's easier just to pop in a cheap intel arc card and let it handle it all and not have to worry about having multiple versions. As your library grows it will make it considerably cheaper on storage costs as well as you can just keep the 4K versions.