Tvheadend

Hi,

I've purchased a Fire TV stick to use TVH via Kodi for our main TV in the living room as a temporary solution until (hopefully one day) a proper app is available for my Apple TV 4. Meanwhile I've figured out how to get some acceptable results from the stick.

The main issue of it is that it can deal really good with H.264 encoding (HD content), but when going to an SD station the picture will get "choppy". You see that it has problems with fast movements and a good example is the "scrolling text ribbon" on a new station as n-tv - that guy is really not scrolling smooth anymore.

A solution for that weakness of the Fire TV stick is to transcode to H.264 in TVH for the user profile of the Fire TV stick. Works flawlessly for SD contents. But unfortunately the profile also transcodes incoming H.264 HD streams (again into H.264) which would even run fine as a pass-through.

Is there any way to transcode only non-H.264 content to H.264 but leave content which already sources as H.264 untouched as pass-through to not waste CPU resources on the TVH server?

The second issue is that recorded content unfortunately does not use the stream profile of the user, so recorded SD stuff gets choppy again. But I've opened an independend thread for this ...