Transcoding setup question
Transcoding setup question
Hi all, hope everyone is ok.
Been using this software for around half a year now with no problems 
but upon wanting more I find myself here to ask the question.
I believe what I want to achieve is done by transcoding.
Basically my brother already connects up to my server with his pi and now my sister wants to do the same.
I'm worried that my uploads speed will not be good enough to run both for them and also my sister has quite slow internet 17mb.
I currently have latest stable on my system but I would like to stream to my brother and sister in a different format if possible that requires less Mbps upload.
I believe this is where transcoding comes into play
Does anyone have step by step way to set this up, it looks like I have to complie rather than install from repo like I normally do, if so how do I remove current and compile and install if this is the case.
Many thanks
Rob
Replies (1)
RE: Transcoding setup question
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Added by Jonathan Thomson over 8 years ago
Hi
Transcoding should (I believe) be enabled out of the box. I'm running the nightly builds on Kodibuntu and that has transcoding enabled. What hardware are you running TVH on? If it's a Linux box (not a NAS) can you not just switch repo's to get the nightlies (if indeed you need them)?
As for settings, I use transcoding when I'm in hotels for work as I can reduce the bitrate enough to use even the worst wifi.
Here's my "3G" profile (which is low bitrate but you can of course amend the bitrate to suit). You can create multiple streaming profiles and associate them to the user that is logging in to your TVH server, that way they'll always be allocated the streaming profile you want them to use.
Configuration
Enabled: TRUE
Default: FALSE
Profile name: Profile.Cellular
Comment: Profile for mobile clients on cellular data
Default priority: Normal
Force priority: 0
Timeout (sec) (0=infinite): 5
Restart on error: TRUE
Continue even if descrambling fails: TRUE
Preferred service video type: None
Container: Matroska (mkv)/built-in
Transcoding
Resolution (height): 320
Channels: Mono
Language: Use original
Video codec: libx265: libx265 H.265 / HEVC
Video codec preset: veryfast: h264 / h265 / qsv(h264)
Video bitrate (kb/s) (0=auto): 250
Audio codec: aac: AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)
Audio bitrate (kb/s) (0=auto): 40
Subtitle codec: Do not use
EDIT: Just to add, transcoding does NOT currently work with recorded content, only live TV. There is a feature request for recorded content to be transcoded but I have no idea if/when that will make it into a build at some point.